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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Medical literature."”.
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A SCAFFOLDED INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL TO TEACH DOCTOR OF PHARMACY STUDENTS TO EVALUATE RANDOMIZED AND NON-RANDOMIZED MEDICAL STUDIES ON A SIMILAR TOPIC TO REACH A CLINICAL CONCLUSION
… lesson where students evaluated three different medical studies (RCT, case-control, and cohort) on the same topic and used those studies to reach an evidence-based conclusion. The hypothesis was that the students literature evaluation skills and subsequent application of the literature to address …
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The development and validation of a respiratory guideline for nurses in primary care in South Africa
… after review of a generic respiratory guideline, medical literature, local policies, and qualitative research.
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L.E. Factor Test in Acute Disseminated Lupus Erythematosus
… acute disseminated lupus erythematosus was a medical curiosity. A few years ago the diagnosis was made with certainty only when the classical picture was encountered. A few astute physicians made the diagnosis in obscure cases but always with some hesitancy. A typical cell was discovered which …
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Risk factors associated with a past history of Exercise Associated Muscle Cramps (EAMC) in Ironman triathletes : a case control study
… this dissertation are 1) to review the existing medical literature on the possible intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors for EAMC, and 2) to investigate risk factors that are associated with a self reported past history of EAMC in Ironman triathletes. The focus of this research is to increase the …
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Regulation of plasma triglyceride metabolism : some nutritional and endocrine effects
… lipids and lipoproteins have appeared in the medical literature. The tremendous interest in this field, no doubt relates largely to the long-known and well established association between· elevation of plasma lipids and lipoproteins, and ischaemic heart disease (IHD). Despite many years of …
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REPORTING QUALITY OF ONCOLOGY RCTS & COMPLIANCE WITH CONSORT
… of CONSORT checklist compliance in the oncology literature over the past two decades. Methods: Eight-hundred and fifty parallel two-arm RCTs assessing oncological interventions in adult breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung cancer between 1992-2010 were identified by a systematic search of the …
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Taser subjects: Identification of high-risk individuals
… to Tasers. Critical review of the published medical literature concerning the human effects of Tasers suggests the delineation of certain groups potentially more vulnerable to adverse medical outcome and injurious clinical sequela. Policy changes mandating that these “high-risk” groups …
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Consequences of the Conflation of ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ on Trans Healthcare
… rife with misunderstanding in the scientific and medical community, as well as in common usage. While neither term means the same thing contextually, both are constructed socially and require refinement for their usage in and outside of the scientific community. ‘Sex’ and ‘gender’ ought to be …
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An annotated edition of two Irish translations of Bernard de Gordon, De Decem Ingeniis
… of two hitherto unedited Early Modern Irish medical treatises. These consist of two independent Irish translations of the same Latin source, the medical treatise De decem ingeniis curandorum morborum (DDI) written by Bernardus de Gordonio (Bernard of Gordon, c.1258–before 1330). Their origin …
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Historicizing Maternity in Boccaccio's Ninfale fiesolano and Decameron
… history of women and the family and medieval medical literature of obstetrics and gynecology. I create a dense historical context from which to examine the depiction of generative processes, maternity, and mother-child interactions in these works, allowing us to better understand the …
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The long-term effectiveness of dialysis, kidney transplantation and pancreas transplantation for patients with diabetes mellitus and renal failure: A decision analysis.
… SPKT. Model probabilities were obtained from the medical literature and utilities were obtained using the standard gamble. The outcome measure was quality-adjusted life expectancy (quality-adjusted life years, QALYs). Results. LKT was associated with 10.29 QALYs; PAKT, 10.00 QALYs; SPKT, 9.09 …
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The effect of repetitive subconcussive head impacts on observed physiological, biochemical, and functional perturbances in the brain in high school and collegiate football players: a systematic literature review
… school and collegiate athletes. We performed a literature review of all English-language medical literature from 2009 to current. Hippocampal volume changes, white matter diffusion changes, neurocognitive and neurophysiological performance, serum brain marker, diffusion-weighted tensor imaging …
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Improving Compliance with Rehabilitation Treatment Recommendations Among the Latino/a Population of Caregivers and Clients
… available, trained interpreters, and translated medical literature tested for understanding in the patients native tongue language (Youdelman, 2008). The purpose of this research is to explain how cultural and language barriers impede effective health care outcomes from both the health care …
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Implementation of a new Web-based health monitor initiative : identification of positive as well as restricting factors in a small community
… (disease synopsis, a list of books and medical literature, and direct links to other credible websites) and the disease's respective health self-monitoring form. This website was unique because it was first of its kind to have an on-line individualizable and printable health management …
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Demographic disparities in studies of acute OTC migraine treatment
… studies of migraine medications. A literature review using PubMed with keywords related to migraine, over the counter, medication, and prevalence. Studies were then reviewed for demographic data including biological sex, age, socioeconomic status, insurance status, ethnicity, and …
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La recepción de los discursos higienistas: urbanismo, género y clase en Bilbao (XIX-XX)
… took the form of regulations and an abundance of medical literature. The criticisms of moral reformers, while pointing to economic deprivation and social inequalities, focused on the lack of morals among workers. The proximity between young men and women in workers' dwellings, or the displacement …
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Errors and adverse consequences as a result of information technology use in healthcare : an integrated review of the literature
… organizations across the country. Though recent literature has provided evidence for the benefits of HIT in the profession, there have also been a growing number of reports exploring the adverse effects of HIT. There has not, however, yet been a systematic account of the adverse effects of HIT in …
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Women, Violence, and the "Arab Question" in Early Zionist Literature
… themes of rape and domestic violence in Zionist literature on the "Arab Question" published in Hebrew from the last years of Ottoman rule in Palestine through to the 1929 riots that erupted during the British Mandate. By bringing to light the import of rape and domestic violence in works by …
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Deep Learning Based Methods for Automatic Extraction of Syntactic Patterns and their Application for Knowledge Discovery
… I choose to extract cause-effect entities from medical literature. This task is instrumental in compiling various causality relationships, such as those between diseases and symptoms, medications and side effects, and genes and diseases. Existing solutions excel in sentences where cause and …
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Influence of Some Homeopathic Remedies as a Factor in the Risk Assessment System for the Development of Carious Processes /// Влияние на някои хомеопатични средства като фактор в системата за оценка на риска от развитие на кариозен процес
… a possible risk factor is underestimated among medical specialists. In medical literature the role of homeopathic remedies as a factor in the risk assessment system for development of a carious process remains a topic which is insufficiently discussed. This motivated us to conduct our own …
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