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The Digital Drag and Drop Pillbox: Design and Feasibility of a Skill-based Education Model to Improve Medication Management.
(The Journal of cardiovascular nursing, 2017-09)
We present the design and feasibility testing for the "Digital Drag and Drop Pillbox"
(D-3 Pillbox), a skill-based educational approach that engages patients and providers,
measures performance, and generates reports of ...
Benefit of Ezetimibe Added to Simvastatin in Reduced Kidney Function.
(J Am Soc Nephrol, 2017-10)
Efficacy of statin-based therapies in reducing cardiovascular mortality in individuals
with CKD seems to diminish as eGFR declines. The strongest evidence supporting the
cardiovascular benefit of statins in individuals with ...
Population-based biobank participants' preferences for receiving genetic test results.
(Journal of human genetics, 2017-12)
There are ongoing debates on issues relating to returning individual research results
(IRRs) and incidental findings (IFs) generated by genetic research in population-based
biobanks. To understand how to appropriately return ...
Cardiovascular comorbidities and survival of lung cancer patients: Medicare data based analysis.
(Lung Cancer, 2017-06-05)
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the role of cardiovascular disease (CVD) comorbidity in survival
of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: The impact
of seven CVDs (at the time of NSCLC diagnosis ...
Validation of the Hebrew version of the Movement Disorder Society-Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale.
(Parkinsonism & related disorders, 2017-12)
The Movement Disorders Society (MDS) published the English new Unified Parkinson's
Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) as the official benchmark scale for Parkinson's disease
(PD) in 2008. We aimed to validate the Hebrew version ...
Vitamin B12 and Homocysteine Associations with Gait Speed in Older Adults: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.
(The journal of nutrition, health & aging, 2017-01)
This study aimed to assess the independent associations of serum levels of vitamin
B12 and plasma concentrations of homocysteine with gait speed decline.This study utilized
longitudinal analysis of participants 50 years ...
Awareness of Cervical Cancer Causes and Predeterminants of Likelihood to Screen Among Women in Haiti.
(Journal of lower genital tract disease, 2017-01)
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Haiti. Given
this high disease burden, we sought to better understand women's knowledge of its
causes and the sociodemographic and health correlates of ...
Surgical Pain After Transobturator and Retropubic Midurethral Sling Placement.
(Obstet Gynecol, 2017-07)
OBJECTIVE: To compare prevalence and severity of any surgical pain between transobturator
and retropubic slings; secondary aims were to compare pain at anatomic locations,
pain medication use, and pain resolution between ...
Retinal pigment epithelium and microglia express the CD5 antigen-like protein, a novel autoantigen in age-related macular degeneration.
(Experimental eye research, 2017-02)
We report on a novel autoantigen expressed in human macular tissues, identified following
an initial Western blot (WB)-based screening of sera from subjects with age-related
macular degeneration (AMD) for circulating ...