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Review of Physician Referrals to Orthopedic Spine versus Neurosurgery.

Mar 05, 2020

Previous studies have reported what patients value while choosing their surgeon, but there are no studies exploring the patterns of referral to spine surgeons among primary care physicians (PCPs). Thi...

A systematic review and meta-analysis for Chinese herbal medicine Duhuo Jisheng decoction in treatment of lumbar disc herniation: A protocol for a systematic review.

Mar 05, 2020

Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is 1 of the most common diseases in orthopedics, which seriously affects people's daily life and brings a heavy burden on society and families. Chinese herbal medicine has...

[The evaluation of polyclinic rehabilitation after prosthetic arthroplasty].

Mar 05, 2020

The study considers quality of assessing functioning, limitation of vital activity and patient participation in outpatient stage of rehabilitation according traumatology and orthopedics profile. The s...

A Possible Mobile Health Solution in Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery: Development Protocol and User Evaluation of the Ankle Joint App.

Mar 05, 2020

Ankle sprains are one of the most frequent sports injuries. With respect to the high prevalence of ankle ligament injuries and patients' young age, optimizing treatment and rehabilitation is mandatory...

Detecting Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health with Structured and Free-Text Clinical Data.

Mar 05, 2020

 Social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDH) are environmental and behavioral factors that often impede disease management and result in sexually transmitted infections. Despite their import...

[Effects of Noise Protection Measures on Annoyance, Sleep Disorders, and Cardiovascular Diseases: A Model Calculation].

Mar 05, 2020

In Germany, traffic noise-related threshold values are currently set at 70 decibels (dB) during the day and 60 dB at night. According to recent study results, these threshold values might not sufficie...

Parvovirus B19 infection in sickle cell disease: An analysis from the Centers for Disease Control haemoglobinopathy blood surveillance project.

Mar 05, 2020

In the multicentre Haemoglobinopathy Blood Surveillance Project, to evaluate the seroprevalence of parvovirus B19 and DNA viral load in sickle cell disease (SCD).Although the epidemiology of parvoviru...

Effects of varenicline on lung tissue in the animal model.

Mar 05, 2020

This study aimed to investigate acute and chronic effects of varenicline on lung tissue in an experimental study.A total of 34 rats were randomly allocated into study (varenicline) and control groups....

Dipping and rotating: two maneuvers to achieve maximum magnification during indirect transnasal laryngoscopy.

Mar 05, 2020

Since many years, office-based flexible transnasal laryngoscopy is a common routine procedure. The development of new technical equipment such as high-definition cameras and flexible tip-chip endoscop...

Clinical Utility of the Risk Analysis Index as a Prospective Frailty Screening Tool within a Multi-practice, Multi-hospital Integrated Healthcare System.

Mar 05, 2020

The goal of this project was to first address barriers to implementation of the Risk Analysis Index (RAI) within a large, multi-hospital, integrated healthcare delivery system, and to subsequently dem...

Challenges to accomplish stringent fluid management standards 7 years after enhanced recovery after surgery implementation-The surgeon's perspective.

Mar 05, 2020

This study aimed to analyze fluid management standards in 2 high-volume, enhanced recovery after surgery institutions 7 years after implementation.Retrospective analysis of consecutive patients underg...

Comparing the 5-Year Diabetes Outcomes of Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass: The National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORNet) Bariatric Study.

Mar 05, 2020

Bariatric surgery can lead to substantial improvements in type 2 diabetes (T2DM), but outcomes vary across procedures and populations. It is unclear which bariatric procedure has the most benefits for...

Short-term Outcomes After Robot-Assisted vs Open Pancreaticoduodenectomy After the Learning Curve.

Mar 05, 2020

Robot-assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy (RPD) has been reported to be safe and feasible. As a new technique, RPD has a learning curve similar to that of other types of minimally invasive pancreatic sur...

Outcome according to subspecies following lung transplantation in cystic fibrosis paediatric patients infected with mycobacterium abscessus.

Mar 05, 2020

Mycobacterium abscessus infection has been associated with variable outcomes following lung transplantation. M. abscessus comprises three subspecies (M. abscessus subsp abscessus, M. abscessus subsp m...

[Mental health survey of 230 medical staff in a tertiary infectious disease hospital for COVID-19].

Mar 05, 2020

To investigate the mental health of clinical first-line medical staff in COVID-19 epidemic and provide theoretical basis for psychological intervention. The mental health status of the first-line me...

Opioid growth factor and its derivatives as potential non-toxic multifunctional anticancer and analgesic compounds.

Mar 05, 2020

Despite significant research progress on the pathogenesis, molecular biology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer its morbidity and mortality is still high around the world. The emerging re...

Promoting Reproducible Research for Characterizing Nonmedical Use of Medications Through Data Annotation: Description of a Twitter Corpus and Guidelines.

Mar 05, 2020

Social media data are being increasingly used for population-level health research because it provides near real-time access to large volumes of consumer-generated data. Recently, a number of studies ...

Functional Diversity of Glycinergic Commissural Inhibitory Neurons in Larval Zebrafish.

Mar 05, 2020

Commissural inhibitory neurons in the spinal cord of aquatic vertebrates coordinate left-right body alternation during swimming. Their developmental origin, however, has been elusive. We investigate t...

Opioid Naive Surgeons and Opioid-Tolerant Patients: Can Education Alter Prescribing Patterns to Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients?

Mar 05, 2020

Patterns of opioid overprescribing following arthroplasty likely developed given that poor pain control can diminish patient satisfaction, delay disposition, and lead to complications. Recently, inter...

Pretransplant Genetic Susceptibility: Clinical Relevance in Transplant-Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy.

Mar 05, 2020

Transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA) is a life-threatening complication of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). We hypothesized that pretransplant genetic suscepti...

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