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 ... -
Acute myocardial infarction in sub-Saharan Africa: the need for data.
(PloS one, 2014-01)BACKGROUND: Trends in the prevalence of acute myocardial infarction in sub-Saharan Africa have not been well described, despite growing recognition of the increasing burden of cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income ... -
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, ... -
Comorbid substance use disorders with other Axis I and II mental disorders among treatment-seeking Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race people.
(Journal of psychiatric research, 2013-12)Little is known about behavioral healthcare needs of Asian Americans (AAs), Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (NHs/PIs), and mixed-race people (MRs)-the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population. We examined substance ... -
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 ... -
E-cigarette prevalence and correlates of use among adolescents versus adults: a review and comparison.
(Journal of psychiatric research, 2014-07)Perceived safer than tobacco cigarettes, prevalence of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use is increasing. Analyses of cartridges suggest that e-cigarettes may pose health risks. In light of increased use and the potential ... -
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 ... -
Healthcare utilization and cost trajectories post-stroke: role of caregiver and stroke factors.
(BMC health services research, 2018-11-22)<h4>Background</h4>It is essential to study post-stroke healthcare utilization trajectories from a stroke patient caregiver dyadic perspective to improve healthcare delivery, practices and eventually improve long-term outcomes ... -
Hospital mortality of patients aged 80 and older after surgical repair for type A acute aortic dissection in Japan.
(Medicine, 2016-08)To evaluate whether patients aged 80 and older have higher risk of hospital mortality after repair of type A acute aortic dissection (TAAAD).Emergency surgery for TAAAD in patients aged 80 and older remains a controversial ... -
Incorporating explicit geospatial data shows more species at risk of extinction than the current Red List.
(Science advances, 2016-11-09)The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List classifies species according to their risk of extinction, informing global to local conservation decisions. Unfortunately, important geospatial data do not ... -
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 ... -
Neurodevelopmental outcomes among extremely premature infants with linear growth restriction.
(Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2019-02)<h4>Objective</h4>To compare neurodevelopmental outcomes in linear growth-restricted (LGR) infants born <29 weeks with and without weight gain out of proportion to linear growth.<h4>Study design</h4>We compared ... -
Nonmedical stimulant use among young Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race individuals aged 12-34 years in the United States.
(Journal of psychiatric research, 2014-12)There are concerns over nonmedical use of prescription stimulants among youths, but little is known about the extent of use among young Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (NHs/PIs), and mixed-race individuals-the ...
