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Diagnostic and treatment characteristics of polycystic ovary syndrome: descriptive measurements of patient perception and awareness from 657 confidential self-reports
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background This investigation was undertaken to describe patient perception and awareness of the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the most common cause of... -
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Survival of patients transferred to tertiary intensive care from rural community hospitals
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Accessibility to tertiary intensive care resources differs among hospitals within a rural region. Determining whether accessibility is associated with... -
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A cross-sectional study of early identification of postpartum depression: Implications for primary care providers from The Ontario Mother & Infant Survey
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background This survey's objective was to provide planning information by examining utilization patterns, health outcomes and costs associated with existing practices... -
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Research Article: Breast Cancer Research
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The contribution of BRCA1 and BRCA2 to the incidence of male breast cancer (MBC) in the United Kingdom is not known, and the importance of these genes in... -
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Hospital competition, resource allocation and quality of care
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background A variety of approaches have been used to contain escalating hospital costs. One approach is intensifying price competition. The increase in price based... -
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Manipulation of prenatal hormones and dietary phytoestrogens during adulthood alter the sexually dimorphic expression of visual spatial memory
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background In learning and memory tasks, requiring visual spatial memory (VSM), males exhibit higher performance levels compared to females (a difference attributed... -
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The velocity of ultrasound in human primary melanoma tissue - implications for the clinical use of high resolution sonography
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Ultrasonography with 20 MHz frequency can be used to estimate tumour thickness preoperatively in malignant melanoma (MM) of the skin. The vertical invasion... -
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Time course of muscle soreness following different types of exercise
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Post-exercise muscle soreness is a dull, aching sensation that follows unaccustomed muscular exertion. Primarily on the basis of previous laboratory-based... -
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The International Sepsis Forum's controversies in sepsis: how will sepsis be treated in 2051?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Great advances have been made in describing the intracellular pathways and genes that are activated by bacterial products. New definitions and therapies for sepsis... -
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Continuous haemofiltration in the intensive care unit
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) was first described in 1977 for the treatment of diuretic-unresponsive fluid overload in the intensive care unit (ICU).... -
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Practising evidence-based medicine: the design and implementation of a multidisciplinary team-driven extubation protocol
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Evidence from recent literature shows that protocol-directed extubation is a useful approach to liberate patients from mechanical ventilation (MV).... -
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Exertional dyspnea as initial manifestation of Takayasu's arteritis – A case report and literature review
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Takayasu's arteritis is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease that usually affects the aorta, its primary branches and occasionally the pulmonary and... -
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Do pediatric intensivists and radiologists concur on the interpretation of chest radiographs?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Therapeutic decisions in the pediatric intensive care unit are made by pediatric intensivists (PI) based on their interpretation of chest radiographs... -
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Determinants of abstract acceptance for the Digestive Diseases Week – a cross sectional study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The Digestive Diseases Week (DDW) is the major meeting for presentation of research in gastroenterology. The acceptance of an abstract for presentation at... -
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13th Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Rome, Italy, 1-4 October 2000
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
13th Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Rome, Italy, 1-4 October 2000 -
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The functional genomic response of developing embryonic submandibular glands to NF-kappaB inhibition
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The proper balance between epithelial cell proliferation, quiescence, and apoptosis during development is mediated by the specific temporal and spatial... -
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Korean women: breast cancer knowledge, attitudes and behaviors
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Introduction Clustered within the nomenclature of Asian American are numerous subgroups, each with their own ethnic heritage, cultural, and linguistic... -
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Quality and methods of developing practice guidelines
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background It is not known whether there are differences in the quality and recommendations between evidence-based (EB) and consensus-based (CB) guidelines. We used... -
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The (CTG)n polymorphism in the NOTCH4 gene is not associated with schizophrenia in Japanese individuals
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The human NOTCH4 gene is a candidate gene for schizophrenia due to its chromosomal location and neurobiological roles. In a British linkage study, NOTCH4... -
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Oral cancer treatment costs in Greece and the effect of advanced disease
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The main purpose of the study was to quantify the direct costs of oral cancer treatment to the healthcare system of Greece. Another aim was to identify...