Exploring expressed concerns and uncanny feeling in patients with shortness of breath calling out-of-hours primary care by Michelle Spek, Dorien L. Zwart, Esther de Groot, Michelle R. Timmerman, Maarten van Smeden, Daphne C. A. Erkelens, Anna S. M. Dobbe, Mathé Delissen, Frans H. Rutten, Roderick P. Venekamp

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Association of chronic heart failure with mortality in old intensive care patients suffering from Covid‐19 by Raphael Romano Bruno, Bernhard Wernly, Georg Wolff, Jesper Fjølner, Antonio Artigas, Bernardo Bollen Pinto, Joerg C. Schefold, Detlef Kindgen‐Milles, Philipp Heinrich Baldia, Malte Kelm, Michael Beil, Sigal Sviri, Peter Vernon vanHeerden, Wojciech Szczeklik, Arzu Topeli, Muhammed Elhadi, Michael Joannidis, Sandra Oeyen, Eumorfia Kondili, Brian Marsh, Finn H. Andersen, Rui Moreno, Susannah Leaver, Ariane Boumendil, Dylan W. De Lange, Bertrand Guidet, Hans Flaatten, Christian Jung, COVIP study group

“…EF as a continuous variable was not independently associated with 30 day mortality (aOR 0.98, 95% CI 0.9–1.0; P = 0.128). Conclusions In critically ill older COVID‐19 patients, pre‐existing CHF was not independently associated with 30 day mortality. …”
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Association of quality of life in older patients with breast cancer: a cross-sectional study from China by Xi Chen, Qing Li, Xiang Wang, Lei Ji, Jintao Zhang, Qiao Li, Min Xiao, Shanshan Chen, Pin Zhang, Jiani Wang, Heng Cao, Xiaoyan Qian, Meng Xiu, Zhuoran Li, Yiqun Li, Xiaojuan Zheng

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Multisystemic Side Effects of an Indispensable Old Drug: A Case Report of Chronic Lithium Use (A Patient with Multiple Side Effects of Lithium) by Levent Demirtas, Emin Murat Akbas, Husnu Degirmenci, Ali Gurel, Eren Duzgun

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Effect of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin on QT Interval Prolongation and Other Cardiac Arrhythmias in COVID-19 Confirmed Patients by Seyed Parsa Eftekhar, Sohrab Kazemi, Mohammad Barary, Mostafa Javanian, Soheil Ebrahimpour, Naghmeh Ziaei

“…Electrocardiograms were used for outcome assessment. Results. 83.1% of patients received hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin vs. 16.9% of patients who received only hydroxychloroquine. …”
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Leydig Cell Tumor Associated with Testicular Adrenal Rest Tumors in a Patient with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to 11β-Hydroxylase Deficiency by Nadia Charfi, Mahdi Kamoun, Mouna Feki Mnif, Neila Mseddi, Fatma Mnif, Nozha Kallel, Basma Ben Naceur, Nabila Rekik, Hela Fourati, Emna Daoud, Zainab Mnif, Mourad Hadj Sliman, Tahia Sellami-Boudawara, Mohamed Abid

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Improving patient safety through better teamwork: how effective are different methods of simulation debriefing? Protocol for a pragmatic, prospective and randomised study by Wolf E Hautz, Juliane E Kämmer, Julia Freytag, Fabian Stroben, Dorothea Eisenmann

“…Introduction Medical errors have an incidence of 9% and may lead to worse patient outcome. Teamwork training has the capacity to significantly reduce medical errors and therefore improve patient outcome. …”
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Effect of a perinatal care quality improvement package on patient satisfaction: a secondary outcome analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled trial by Ashish KC, Anna Bergstrom, Mats Målqvist, Dipak Chaulagain, Olivia Brunell

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SNP-array profiling data from breast cancer patients and healthy women's blood DNA samplesGEO by Rafika Indah Paramita, Sonar Soni Panigoro, Fadilah Fadilah, Septelia Inawati Wanandi, Noorwati Sutandyo

“…This paper presents the unprocessed idat data containing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) acquired from breast cancer patients and a control group comprising of healthy women. …”
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Effectiveness of a specialist palliative home care nurse–patient consultation followed by an interprofessional telephone case conference compared with usual care among patients wit... by Judith Dams, Hans-Helmut König, Tim Friede, Nils Schneider, Stephanie Stiel, Martin Scherer, Silke Böttcher, Gabriella Marx, Ingmar Schäfer, Nadine Janis Pohontsch, Hendrik van den Bussche, Friedemann Nauck, Michael Freitag, Eva Hummers, Tina Mallon, Franziska Schade, Manuel Zimansky, Thomas Asendorf, Christiane A Mueller

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The Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Opioids: A Survey of 84 Selected Patients with Intractable Chronic Noncancer Pain by C Peter N Watson, Judy Watt-Watson, Mary Chipman

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Examining endothelial function and carotid artery disease in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review protocol by Hao Wu, Zhenguo Liu, Tingzi Hu, Meihua Xu, Hong Hao, Michael A Hill, Canxia Xu

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Treatment Patterns for Patients on Overactive Bladder Therapy: A Retrospective Statistical Analysis Using Canadian Claims Data by Adrian Wagg, Demitri Diles, Todd Berner

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Topographic correlation of microperimetry with foveal microstructure characteristics in idiopathic epiretinal membrane patients with an ectopic inner foveal layer by Qianqian Wang, Congyao Wang, Yihua Su, Fenfen Yu, Tingting Chen, Xia Dong, Pengxia Wan

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Response to 1-Year Fixed-Regimen Bevacizumab Therapy in Treatment-Naïve DME Patients: Assessment by OCT Angiography by Magdalena Hunt, Sławomir Teper, Adam Wylęgała, Edward Wylęgała

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Level of systemic inflammation markers and clinical course in patients with stable ischemic heart disease with and without coronary atherosclerosis by V.I. Tseluyko, T.V. Pylova

“…Materials and methods. We examined 105 patients with stable ischemic heart disease (IHD), age 36 to 84 years (mean age 58.5 ± 9.47 years). …”
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Healthcare utilisation by pregnant patients with asthma in South Korea: a cohort study using nationwide claims data by Deog Kyeom Kim, Chang-Hoon Lee, Ho Il Yoon, Jae-Joon Yim, Eun Jin Jang, Jimin Kim, Yun Jung Kim, Seongmi Choi, Joon-Ho Lee

“…Oral drugs were prescribed less during the third trimester than during the first trimester (all p values for trends were <0.001). A significant number of patients with asthma were likely to stop taking antiasthmatic drugs after becoming pregnant.Conclusions The prevalence of asthma requiring healthcare utilisation during pregnancy was not very high. …”
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The Utility of Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) Monitoring in Cancer Patients Who Are Pregnant or Planning to Become Pregnant by Stacey A. Cohen, Anup Kasi, Nicole Hook, Michael Krainock, Griffin Budde, Allyson Koyen Malashevich, Jeffrey Meltzer, Russ Jelsema, Perry Olshan, Paul R. Billings, Alexey Aleshin, Andrew S. Poklepovic

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Effect of an inhaled glucocorticoid on reactive oxygen species production by bronchoalveolar lavage cells from smoking COPD patients by Gert T. Verhoeven, Annemarie J.M. Wijkhuijs, Herbert Hooijkaas, Henk C. Hoogsteden, Wim Sluiter

“…Paired results were obtained from 6 FP- and 9 placebo-treated patients. No significant change of Vmax was found in both patient groups. …”
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Effect of RAS mutations and related immune characteristics on the prognosis of patients with MSI-H/dMMR colorectal cancer by Yupeng Jiang, Yuyao Liu, Hong Huang, Tiantian Zhao, Zengyi Zhao, Yawen Gao

“…In MSI-H/dMMR CRC patients: (1) the high CD11c + , CD4 +,  and CD8 +  cells infiltration group had longer DFS than the low-infiltration group, and Foxp3 + cells infiltration was not significantly correlated with DFS; (2) the RAS mutation status, number of CD11c+ cells infiltrated, and carbohydrate antigen 19–9 (CA19–9) level were the potential prognostic factors. …”
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