Efficacy of Abiraterone and Enzalutamide in Pre- and Postdocetaxel Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Trial-Level Meta-Analysis by Mike Fang, Mary Nakazawa, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, Chun Li

“…We examined the comparative efficacies of first-line abiraterone and enzalutamide in pre- and postdocetaxel settings in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) through a trial level meta-analysis. …”
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Barriers and facilitators for social inclusion among people with concurrent mental health and substance use problems. A qualitative scoping review. by Silje Nord-Baade, Ottar Ness, Camilla Bergsve Jensen, Michael Rowe, Elin Opheim, Anne Landheim

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We explored first-person perspectives on social inclusion among people with concurrent mental health and substance use problems, employing Arksey and O'Malleys framework. …”
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Phenobarbital as an adjunctive agent for sedation in pediatric intensive care unit patients: A single-center, retrospective study from Colorado by Kelli Jo Welter, Mackenzie N. DeVine, Sharon E. Gordon, Gina Demasellis

“…The median number of rescue sedative boluses, morphine equivalents (MEs), and benzodiazepine equivalents (BZDE) significantly decreased 2 days after the first phenobarbital dose compared to the 2 days before the first phenobarbital dose. …”
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Surgical Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Economic Burden in Patients with Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor Who Underwent Joint Surgery in the United States by Feng Lin, Winghan J. Kwong, Sherry Shi, Irina Pivneva, Eric Q. Wu, John A. Abraham

“…Opioids and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and physical therapy, occupational therapy, and rehabilitation services, were commonly used during baseline (45%, 40%, and 30%, respectively). More patients used opioids in year 1 vs baseline (78% vs 45%; _P_<0.0001), while its utilization return to baseline levels in year 2 (41%) and year 3 (42%). …”
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Real-world outcomes in patients with melanoma brain metastasis: a US multisite retrospective chart review study of systemic treatments by Ning Ning, Sunandana Chandra, Andriy Moshyk, Divya Patel, Isabella C Glitza Oliva, Jennell Palaia, Leon A Sakkal, Natalia Han, Shardul Odak, Jordana K Schmier

“…However, the observed benefit may have been due to confounding and selection bias, given that patients receiving nivolumab plus ipilimumab had favourable baseline prognostic factors compared with patients receiving anti-PD-1 monotherapy or BRAF/MEK inhibitors.…”
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Engagement With an Internet-Administered, Guided, Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Parents of Children Treated for Cancer: Analysis of Log-Data From the... by Christina Reuther, Louise von Essen, Mudassir Imran Mustafa, Markus Saarijärvi, Joanne Woodford

“…Nonadherers who opened behavioral activation as the first LICBT module allocated had a significantly higher level of depression symptoms at baseline than adherers. …”
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Nitric Oxide Concentration and Other Salivary Changes after Insertion of New Complete Dentures in Edentulous Subjects by Maria de Lourdes Breseghelo, Lídia Andreu Guillo, Túlio Eduardo Nogueira, Cláudio Rodrigues Leles

“…Pairwise comparison showed a reduction in NO concentration at the first follow-up compared to baseline values but differences were not statistically significant. …”
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Anticoagulant management of cancer-associated thrombosis and thrombocytopenia: a retrospective chart review by Umaima Abbas, Robin MacKenzie, Ushra Khan, Rija Fatima, Tzu-Fei Wang, Rong Luo, Caroline Hamm, Andrea Cervi

“…Among patients treated with DOACs, there were no recurrent VTEs, 2 clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding events (12.5%) within the first 2 weeks, and 1 minor bleed (6.3%) in the second month, while those treated with LMWH had 1 recurrent VTE (5.3%) in the second month and 2 clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding events (10.5%) within the first 2 months. …”
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Clinical characteristics of EGFR-ctDNA shedders in EGFR-mutant NSCLC patients by Martina Ruglioni, Iacopo Petrini, Stefania Crucitta, Andrea Sbrana, Giovanna Irene Luculli, Leila Sadeghi Gol, Carola Forte, Antonio Chella, Christian Rolfo, Romano Danesi, Marzia Del Re

“…EGFR was assessed on tissue by standard procedures, while EGFR status on ctDNA was tested using dPCR at baseline and at the first reassessment. NGS was used to evaluate patients mutational status at the progression of the disease. …”
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Determinants of Mortality among Adult HIV-Infected Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in a Rural Hospital in Southeastern Nigeria: A 5-Year Cohort Study by Kelechi N. Eguzo, Adegboyega K. Lawal, Cynthia E. Eseigbe, Chisara C. Umezurike

“…Patients on Truvada-based first-line regimens were 88% more likely to die than those on Combivir-based first line (95% CI 1.05–3.36), especially those with CD4 count <200 cells/μL. …”
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Identification and prioritization of effective approaches for public education and participation in household waste management (A case study: Tehran, Iran) by Esmatossadat Hashemi, Hooman Bahmanpour, Amir Hesam Hassani, Amir Hooman Hemmasi

“… This study aimed to identify and prioritize effective methods to increase public education and participation in household waste management in Tehran (capital of Iran) as a pilot city. First, baseline data were gathered through a library research process, and then 33 waste management experts were employed as a panel to complete a researcher-made questionnaire on a Likert scale. …”
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Probabilistic forecasting of multiple plant day-ahead renewable power generation sequences with data privacy preserving by Hong Liu, Zijun Zhang

“…To verify the advantages of the DIFL, a preliminary exploration of its theoretical property is first conducted. Next, computational studies are performed to benchmark the DIFL against famous baselines based on datasets collected from commercial renewable power plants. …”
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Prognostic Significance of Early Postoperative Choroidal Detachment in Patients with Congenital Glaucoma Operated with Nonpenetrating Deep Sclerectomy by Shaikha H. Aldossari, Konrad Schargel, Ibrahim Aljadaan, Khabir Ahmad, Rakan Gorinees, Nouf Alzendi, Gorka Sesma

“…The intraocular pressure was evaluated in the first 72 hours after surgery and at 1, 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. …”
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A Weighted Statistical Network Modeling Approach to Product Competition Analysis by Yaxin Cui, Faez Ahmed, Zhenghui Sha, Lijun Wang, Yan Fu, Noshir Contractor, Wei Chen

“…Our findings suggest that the weighted network model outperforms commonly used binary network baselines in predicting product competition as well as market share. …”
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DMR: disentangled and denoised learning for multi-behavior recommendation by Yijia Zhang, Wanyu Chen, Fei Cai, Zhenkun Shi, Feng Qi

“…Existing MBR task faces two primary challenges. First, the irrelevant auxiliary behaviors that do not align with the target behavior, can negatively impact the prediction accuracy for user preference in the target behavior. …”
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Photobiomodulation Therapy Plus Usual Care Is Better than Usual Care Alone for Plantar Fasciitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Ann K Ketz, Juanita Anders, Judy Orina, Betty Garner, Misty Hull, Nicholas Koreerat, Jeff Sorensen, Candice Turner, James Johnson

“…Pain (with Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale) and function (by Foot and Ankle Ability Measure) were measured at baseline, weeks 3, and 6 for all groups, and at 13 and 26 weeks for PBMT groups…”
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Canadian real-world study of access and clinical results using dupilumab for chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps by Shaun J. Kilty, Andrea Lasso

“…Abstract Background Dupilumab is the first monoclonal antibody therapy to be approved in Canada for the treatment of Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps (CRSwNP). …”
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The Impact of Preoperative Fasting Duration on Blood Glucose and Hemodynamics in Children by Pouran Hajian, Minoo Shabani, Elham Khanlarzadeh, Mahshid Nikooseresht

“…Mean blood glucose 20 minutes after surgery was 101.17 (SD 92) mg/dl, which was significantly higher than the baseline values (87.66 (SD 11.84) mg/dl) (P<0.001). …”
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A NEW APPROACH TO ESTIMATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH QUALITY by V. I. LEVIN

“…The paper highlights the essence of the bibliometric approach to modeling and evaluation of scientific research results, considers the basic foundations of the theory of bibliometric indicators. The baseline data for the evaluation of these indicators are established. …”
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Early release of circulating tumor cells after transarterial chemoembolization hinders therapeutic response in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma by María L. Espejo-Cruz, Sandra González-Rubio, Juan J. Espejo, Javier M. Zamora-Olaya, María Prieto-Torre, Clara I. Linares, Álvaro Ruiz-Ramas, Álvaro Jiménez-Arranz, Marta Guerrero-Misas, Pilar Barrera-Baena, Antonio Poyato-González, José L. Montero, Marina Sánchez-Frías, María D. Ayllón, Manuel L. Rodríguez-Perálvarez, Manuel de la Mata, Gustavo Ferrín

“…CTC levels increased at D1 (114.0% [IQR 76.5%-178.0%], p = 0.019) and normalized to baseline levels in the first month after TACE (76.5% [IQR 41.3%-131.8%], p = 0.263). …”
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