Browsing by Subject "Databases, Factual"
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Acquisition, Analysis, and Sharing of Data in 2015 and Beyond: A Survey of the Landscape: A Conference Report From the American Heart Association Data Summit 2015.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2015-11-05)BACKGROUND: A 1.5-day interactive forum was convened to discuss critical issues in the acquisition, analysis, and sharing of data in the field of cardiovascular and stroke science. The discussion will serve as the foundation ... -
An estimate of the number of tropical tree species.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-06-16)The high species richness of tropical forests has long been recognized, yet there remains substantial uncertainty regarding the actual number of tropical tree species. Using a pantropical tree inventory database from closed ... -
COMADRE: a global data base of animal demography.
(J Anim Ecol, 2016-03)UNLABELLED: The open-data scientific philosophy is being widely adopted and proving to promote considerable progress in ecology and evolution. Open-data global data bases now exist on animal migration, species distribution, ... -
Compliance with results reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov.
(N Engl J Med, 2015-03-12)BACKGROUND: The Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA) mandates timely reporting of results of applicable clinical trials to ClinicalTrials.gov. We characterized the proportion of applicable clinical trials ... -
Does improved access to diagnostic imaging results reduce hospital length of stay? A retrospective study.
(BMC Health Serv Res, 2010-09-06)BACKGROUND: One year after the introduction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to support diagnostic imaging at our hospital, clinicians had faster and better access to radiology reports and images; direct ... -
EchinoDB, an application for comparative transcriptomics of deeply-sampled clades of echinoderms.
(BMC Bioinformatics, 2016-01-22)BACKGROUND: One of our goals for the echinoderm tree of life project (http://echinotol.org) is to identify orthologs suitable for phylogenetic analysis from next-generation transcriptome data. The current dataset is the ... -
Effectiveness and Safety of Aldosterone Antagonist Therapy Use Among Older Patients With Reduced Ejection Fraction After Acute Myocardial Infarction.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2016-01-21)BACKGROUND: While aldosterone antagonists have proven benefit among post-myocardial infarction (MI) patients with low ejection fraction (EF), how this treatment is used among older MI patients in routine practice is not ... -
Establishing a regional, multisite database for quality improvement and service planning in community-based palliative care and hospice.
(J Palliat Med, 2010-08)BACKGROUND: Outpatient palliative care, an evolving delivery model, seeks to improve continuity of care across settings and to increase access to services in hospice and palliative medicine (HPM). It can provide a critical ... -
Finding our way through phenotypes.
(PLoS Biol, 2015-01)Despite a large and multifaceted effort to understand the vast landscape of phenotypic data, their current form inhibits productive data analysis. The lack of a community-wide, consensus-based, human- and machine-interpretable ... -
Low demographic variability in wild primate populations: fitness impacts of variation, covariation, and serial correlation in vital rates.
(Am Nat, 2011-01)In a stochastic environment, long-term fitness can be influenced by variation, covariation, and serial correlation in vital rates (survival and fertility). Yet no study of an animal population has parsed the contributions ... -
Mapping the semantic structure of cognitive neuroscience.
(J Cogn Neurosci, 2014-09)Cognitive neuroscience, as a discipline, links the biological systems studied by neuroscience to the processing constructs studied by psychology. By mapping these relations throughout the literature of cognitive neuroscience, ... -
Microdosing and drug development: past, present and future.
(Expert Opin Drug Metab Toxicol, 2013-07)INTRODUCTION: Microdosing is an approach to early drug development where exploratory pharmacokinetic data are acquired in humans using inherently safe sub-pharmacologic doses of drug. The first publication of microdose data ... -
Optimized approach to decision fusion of heterogeneous data for breast cancer diagnosis.
(Med Phys, 2006-08)As more diagnostic testing options become available to physicians, it becomes more difficult to combine various types of medical information together in order to optimize the overall diagnosis. To improve diagnostic performance, ... -
Overview of FEED, the feeding experiments end-user database.
(Integr Comp Biol, 2011-08)The Feeding Experiments End-user Database (FEED) is a research tool developed by the Mammalian Feeding Working Group at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center that permits synthetic, evolutionary analyses of the physiology ... -
Pharmacogenomics in early-phase clinical development.
(Pharmacogenomics, 2013-07)Pharmacogenomics (PGx) offers the promise of utilizing genetic fingerprints to predict individual responses to drugs in terms of safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics. Early-phase clinical trial PGx applications can identify ... -
Postoperative statin use and risk of biochemical recurrence following radical prostatectomy: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) database.
(BJU Int, 2014-11)OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of statin use after radical prostatectomy (RP) on biochemical recurrence (BCR) in patients with prostate cancer who never received statins before RP. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted ... -
Road Traffic Injury Prevention Initiatives: A Systematic Review and Metasummary of Effectiveness in Low and Middle Income Countries.
(PLoS One, 2016)BACKGROUND: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are a growing but neglected global health crisis, requiring effective prevention to promote sustainable safety. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) share a disproportionately ... -
The accuracy and completeness for receipt of colorectal cancer care using Veterans Health Administration administrative data.
(BMC Health Serv Res, 2016-02-11)BACKGROUND: The National Comprehensive Cancer Network and the American Society of Clinical Oncology have established guidelines for the treatment and surveillance of colorectal cancer (CRC), respectively. Considering these ... -
Torsemide versus furosemide in heart failure patients: insights from Duke University Hospital.
(J Cardiovasc Pharmacol, 2015-05)Furosemide has historically been the primary loop diuretic in heart failure patients despite data suggesting potential advantages with torsemide. We used the Duke Echocardiography Lab Database to investigate patients admitted ... -
Variation in Inpatient Rehabilitation Utilization After Hospitalization for Burn Injury in the United States.
(J Burn Care Res, 2015-11)Approximately 45,000 individuals are hospitalized annually for burn treatment. Rehabilitation after hospitalization can offer a significant improvement in functional outcomes. Very little is known nationally about rehabilitation ...
