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... echocardiography papillary fibroelas-tomausuallyariseviaapediclefrommitralvalvetissueor adjacent endocardium, and have a characteristicfrond-like appearance [31]. A remarkable feature that LSvegetations ... this article as: Bouma et al.: Mitral valve surgery for mitralregurgitation caused by Libman-Sacks endocarditis: a report of fourcases andasystematicreviewofthe literature. Journal of CardiothoracicSurgery ... andthe echocardio-graphic appearance ofthe tumor the initial workingdiagnosis was papillary fibroelastoma. Laboratory find-ings are shown in Table 1. The patient was diagnosedwith primary...
... intervention andthe strength of outcomes reported, as well as between each individualcharacteristic andthe strength of outcomes. Because a mismatch between the unit of allocation and analysismay bias ... Pearl A, Walsh HJ, Muncaster S, Whalley GA,Gamble G, Sharpe N: Randomized, controlled trial of integrated heartfailure management: The Auckland Heart Failure Management Study.European Heart ... participated in the design ofthe study and helped to draft the manuscript. VL conceived thesystematicreview and database, rated studies, and helped to draft the manuscript. PN conceivedthe...
... Landsman PB, Abbott ITA, Berger M: Patientswith prior fractures have an increased riskof future fractures: A summary ofthe literature and statistical synthesis. Journal of Bone and Mineral ... extraction and managementEAL undertook data abstraction of each ofthe includedstudies using a modified Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisati on of Care (EPOC) Data Co llection Checklist. The data ... improve post-fractureinvestigation and management of patients at riskof osteoporosisElizabeth A Little, Martin P Eccles*AbstractBackground: There is a large quality of care gap for patients with...
... eating quality, mineral content, and shelf life. At each location, the organically managed paddy and conventionally managed paddy were adjacent to each other and managed by almost the same farmers. ... (nutrients and other substances) of organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs: asystematicreviewofthe available literature Report forthe Food Standards Agency Nutrition and Public ... 149-162. The major inputs of N, P and S as fertilizer and biological N2 fixation, andthe removals of these nutrients in harvested products (grain, meat and wool) for each year ofthe rotation of...
... as calculated by the reviewers (mean of word recognition and word attack measures; also mean of comprehension measures, mean of spelling measures, and synthetic versus analytic, where applicable), ... reading accuracy (reading comprehension; spelling) Effect size, as calculated by the reviewers (mean of word recognition and word attack measures; also mean of comprehension measures, mean ... those ofthe Department for Education and Skills. â The University of Sheffield 2006 ISBN 1 84478 659 5 5. Previous research (2): The Ehri et al. (2001) systematicreviewand the Camilli...
... greatest part of that delay wasattributed to the purchase of therapeutic material bypatients and their families [48]. The overall evaluation of professional skills, together with the quality of ... Sri Lanka and Tanzania [22-35].Key interventions that were most often absent includedassisted vaginal delivery and manual removal ofthe pla-centa. Among the explanations offered for these ... encourage a mediation of culturesamong patients and caregivers [60].Technical quality of EmOCThis review shows that data for evaluating the technicalquality of EmOC are scarce. Variations...
... Director-GeneralMargaret Chan [5], and was the topic ofa themed issue of the Lancet [6].Sub-Saharan Africa has only 3% ofthe global healthworkforce [7] but accounts for almost half o f the 7.7million ... wrote the firstdraft ofthe paper, and all authors contributed to the analysis and interpretation ofthe data and reviewed and edited the manuscript for important intellectual content. The opinions ... AccessThirty years after Alma-Ata: asystematic review ofthe impact of community health workersdelivering curative interventions against malaria,pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and morbidity...
... Ohye C, Shibazaki T, Ishihara J, Zhang J: Evaluation of gamma thalamotomy for parkinsonian and other tremors: survival of neurons adjacent to the thalamic lesion after gamma thalamotomy. J Neurosurg ... Kondziolka D, Lunsford LD: A comparison of surgical approaches forthe management of tremor: radiofrequency thalamotomy, gamma knife thalamotomy and thalamic stimulation. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg ... evaluate the survival of neuronsadjacent to the thalamic lesion after GK thalamotomy byOhye et al. [16]. They performed a total of 36 thalamoto-mies in 31 patients and analyzed the treatment...
... IL1-induced aggrecanase activity and basal aggrecanase and collagenase activity, whereas, in contrast, n-6 stimulated the basal aggrecanase and collagenase activity. n-3 alsodecreased the IL1-induced ... decreasing the activities of arylsulfatase Aand arysulfatase B, an N-acetyl-galactosaminidase-4-sulfatase, but increasing the activity of acid phosphatase in normal and OA chondrocytes [66].Ascorbic ... [104].Uncaria tomentosa and Uncaria guianensis (cat's claw)Cat's claw is a vine from the basin ofthe Amazon River. Thereare two species, U. tomentosa and U. guianensis, that are tra-ditionally...
... interests.Authors' contributionsSA, AL, and GF conceived ofthe study and participated in itsdesign and coordination, in data acquisition and analysis, and in manuscript preparation. EG and AZ ... biomarkers arenot at hand. Furthermore, prescribing a biological agent is animportant decision that can greatly impact the quality of life of a patient and can be associated with varying medical ... therapies(rituximab, abatacept, and tocilizumab). The data availablesuggest that many ofthe clinical considerations and decisionsthat we adopt rely on less than strong scientific evidence. Cli-nicians...
... 5:14http://www.implementationscience.com/content/5/1/14Page 5 of 6 RESEARC H ARTIC LE Open Access A systematicreviewofthe use of theory in the design of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies and interpretation of the results of ... where the authors stated that they hademployed a theory within the study, or where the studydescribed a framework or approach that appeared to betheoretically-based and two reviewers (PD, AW) agreedthat ... et al.: Asystematicreviewofthe use of theory in the design of guideline dissemination and implementationstrategies and interpretation ofthe results of rigorous evaluations.Implementation...
... Educational D iagnosis and Eva-luation) [68], diffusion of innovation [69], informationoverload [70], and social marketing (academic detailing)[71] accounted for just over half of all instances ... et al.: Asystematicreviewofthe use of theory in the design of guideline dissemination and implementationstrategies and interpretation ofthe results of rigorous evaluations.Implementation ... G, Prentice A, Gorst T, Nixon R, Duffy S, Day N, et al: Randomisedcontrolled trial of educational package on management of menorrhagiain primary care: the Anglia menorrhagia education study....
... comparison ofthe evi-dence for psychotherapeutic, pharmacological, and comb ined treatments for chronic depression. Additio nalsubgroup analyses and meta-analytical exploration of treatment ... LH participated in formulating the researchquestion, in the design and coordination ofthe study, as well as in drafting the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.Competing ... psychotherapeutic/pharmacological treatment.Comparisons with no-treatment and wait-list controlsas well as psychotherapeutic or pharmacological placebosmay provide information on the efficacy of...
... are also at increased riskof mortality from res-piratory disease, cardiovasculardiseaseand cancer[81,82]. As well as unhealthy lifestyle choices, some of their excess cardiovascularrisk may ... to the aims of the review) ; (4) data analysis (which included clarity of the analysis plan, reporting on all participants and clarity of the results). These criteria provided a maximum score of ... concepts are defined after the synthesis ofthe findings, allowing for greater exploration of a broad array of outcomes and experiences.AimsWe undertook asystematicreviewofthe international lit-erature...