Real World Evaluation of Next-Day Molecular Respiratory Infectious Disease Testing on Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs by French AJ, Fragala MS, Evans AS, Upadhyay P, Goldberg SE, Reddy J

“…The PCR test cohort had lower total healthcare costs (mean = &dollar;5,601±&dollar;29,170, median = &dollar;807) versus the no test cohort (mean = &dollar;7,460±&dollar;40,817, median = &dollar;1,163) (p = 0.0014) over 6 months, and fewer outpatient visits, other medical service visits, emergency room visits, and inpatient stays (p< 0.0001). …”
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Lenvatinib Therapy in Patients with Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Real Clinical Practice by V. V. Petkau, A. V. Sultanbaev, K. V. Menshikov, A. S. Antipin, M. V. Volkonsky, V. M. Filippova, Yu. V. Vasilyeva, A. A. Tarkhanov, M. R. Mukhitova, M. Zh. Murzalina, A. R. Safarova

“…The objective response rate (ORR), disease control rate (DCR), median overall survival (OS) and median progression-free survival (PFS) rates were assessed. …”
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Estimating the impact of school closures on the COVID-19 dynamics in 74 countries: A modelling analysis. by Romain Ragonnet, Angus E Hughes, David S Shipman, Michael T Meehan, Alec S Henderson, Guillaume Briffoteaux, Nouredine Melab, Daniel Tuyttens, Emma S McBryde, James M Trauer

“…They reduced peak hospital occupancy pressure in nearly all countries, with 72 out of 74 countries (97%) showing a positive median estimated effect, and median estimated effect ranging from reducing peak hospital occupancy pressure by 89% in Brazil to increasing it by 19% in Indonesia. …”
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Rehabilitation using virtual gaming for Hospital and hOMe-Based training for the Upper limb in acute and subacute Stroke (RHOMBUS II): results of a feasibility randomised controlle... by Cherry Kilbride, Tom Butcher, Meriel Norris, Nana Anokye, Alyson Warland, Karen Baker, Dimitrios A Athanasiou, Guillem Singla-Buxarrais, Jennifer Ryan, Francesca Gowing, Elmar Kal, Carole Pound, Victoria Stewart, Basaam Aweid, Arul Samiyappan

“…Intervention group: n=16, mean age 66.5 years; median 9.5 days post stroke. Control group: n=8, mean age 64.6 years; median 17.5 days post stroke. …”
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Venetoclax added to CLAG regimen might improve the outcome of patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia by Yu Zhang, Zhao Yin, Zurong Yao, Dan Xu, Xuejie Jiang, Xiaqi Nie, Dandan Chen, Hongsheng Zhou, Pengcheng Shi, Hui Liu, Qifa Liu, Guopan Yu

“…In contrast, the CLAG group had a median OS of 18.6 (95% CI 14.7–22.6) months and EFS of 10.7 (95% CI 6.6–14.8) months. …”
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Surget et Ambula: Literatura e (des)construção da nação by Remo Mutzenberg, Eliane Veras

“…Entrevista com Francisco Noa por Eliane Veras e Remo Mutzenberg…”
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Cross-sectional analysis of two social determinants of health in California cities: racial/ethnic and geographic disparities by Dulce Bustamante-Zamora, Neil Maizlish

“…For education, median within-city difference was 26.6% for Latinos compared with Whites. …”
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Breast cancers with neuroendocrine differentiation: Retrospective case studies series from a single institution based on the 2019 WHO classification by Youngkyung Jeon, Ji-Yeon Kim, Jin Seok Ahn, Young-Hyuck Im, Kyuehee Choi, Sun Young Jeong, Yeji Jung, Jaeyeon Jang, Dae-Ho Choi, Joohyun Hong, Hyo Jung Kim, Soo Youn Cho, Yeon Hee Park

“…The median follow-up period for the eight patients with breast NEC was 20.4 months. …”
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Renal transplant recipient and deceased-donor risk profiles at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa: A 9-year review by F van der Schyff, M Barnard, B Ströbele, M de Jager, R Britz, P Gaylard, J Loveland

“…Similarly, the median UK KDRI was 0.9 (0.8 - 1.2). Both these scores performed poorly in predicting graft and patient survival, with a C-statistic of 0.5. …”
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A Study on the Line of Sight to Galaxies Detected at Gamma-Ray Energies by Amy Furniss, Josepf N. Amador, Olivier Hervet, Ollie Jackson, David A. Williams

“…A similar comparison of the voidiness for LAT-detected AGN shows median p -values greater than 0.05 in each redshift interval. …”
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Outcome of Excision with Primary Midline Closure for Sacrococcygeal Pilonidal Sinus Disease by Bahzad Waso Hamad

“…Thirty six patients with median age 22 years (range 14-40) with 24/12 male /female ratio. …”
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Immediate and Intermediate-Term Outcomes of Infants With Transposition of Great Arteries Who Underwent Balloon Atrial Septostomy in Sudan by Sulafa K. M. Ali, Amna Elsheikh, Mohammed Abdulrahman Alhassan

“…Pre-BAS median oxygen saturation was 48 (Interquartile Range (IQR) 40–60%). …”
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Assessment of priorities, quality, and inclusivity of digital therapeutics trials in China by Ziming Wang, Xinxin Xia, Weijia Lu, Yuguo Ye, Jin Xu

“…Mental, behavioral, or neurodevelopmental disorders represented the leading condition category of focus. Recent declines in median sample size, median duration, and mean number of sites were noted. …”
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Attitudes of healthcare workers at a District in KwaZulu-Natal regarding institutionalisation of antimicrobial stewardship by Andile P. Dlungele, Lehlohonolo J. Mathibe

“…Eighty percent (n = 40; median score 5, interquartile range [IQR] 4–5) and 67% (n = 33; median score 4, IQR 3–4) of participants felt that they had a key role in reducing antibiotic resistance; and good knowledge of antimicrobials as well as AMS programmes, respectively. …”
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Colonic stenting in acute malignant large bowel obstruction: audit of efficacy and safety in a Singapore tertiary referral centre by James Weiquan Li, James Chi-Yong Ngu, Kok Ren Lim, Shu Wen Tay, Bochao Jiang, Ramesh Wijaya, Sulaiman Yusof, Calvin Jianming Ong, Andrew Boon Eu Kwek, Tiing Leong Ang

“…Rates of complications, median time to surgery, types of surgery and rates of recurrence were studied. …”
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Long-term outcomes of drainless anatomical lung resection surgery for pulmonary malignancies by Ting-Fang Kuo, Mong-Wei Lin, Ke-Cheng Chen, Shuenn-Wen Kuo, Pei-Ming Huang, Jang-Ming Lee

“…The median lymph node dissection stations was four, and the number was 17. …”
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Impact of prior CAR T-cell therapy on mosunetuzumab efficacy in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphomas by Elise A. Chong, Elicia Penuel, Ellen B. Napier, Rachel K. Lundberg, Lihua E. Budde, Mazyar Shadman, Matthew J. Matasar, Nancy L. Bartlett, Ian W. Flinn, Francesc Bosch, Keith Fay, Andre Goy, Anita Kumar, Loretta J. Nastoupil, Michael C. Wei, Mei Wu, Shen Yin, Joseph A. Fraietta, Emeline R. Chong, Stephen J. Schuster

“…Additionally, responding patients had an increase in activated CD8 cells (median fold change, 1.7; P = .02). Nonresponders had a relative decrease in CAR transgene levels (n = 16; P = .04). …”
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Scopus Indexing Delays of Articles Published in Major Pharmacy Practice Journals by Samuel Adeosun

“…The Kaplan-Meier curves were also significantly different; with median survival time of indexing in Scopus and PubMed being 4 and 2 weeks, respectively. …”
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Liver Transplantation in Situs Inversus and Portal Vein Thrombosis (First Case Report in Russia) by M. S. Novruzbekov, O. D. Olisov, V. A. Guliaev, K. N. Lutsyk, K. M. Magomedov, B. I. Kazymov

“…Situs inversus is a rare mirror transposition of internal organs relative to the median plane. Liver transplantation in situs inversus is a serious medical challenge imposed by an abnormal arrangement of the recipient's organs.Aim. …”
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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Part I—Real-World Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Associated Costs in Later Lines of Therapy in the United States by Ehab L. Atallah, Rodrigo Maegawa, Dominick Latremouille-Viau, Carmine Rossi, Annie Guérin, Eric Q. Wu, Pallavi Patwardhan

“…Among 53 Medicare-insured patients with 3L+ (median age, 72.0 years; female, 39.6%), the median duration of 1L, 2L, and 3L therapy was 9.7, 5.0, and 7.0 months, respectively. …”
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