CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: This cohort study found that after 22 months of implementation, the CNHS community-based HCV elimination program was associated with an improved cascade of care. The facilitators and lessons learned in this program may be useful to other organizations planning similar programs.
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Martha Tsaliki
CONCLUSION: Anti-ovarian antibodies among women with SLE are not associated with premature ovarian failure after treatment with cyclophosphamide.
3 months ago
Alexandria C Caldwell
This study explored the association between provider recommendation and adolescent vaccine coverage. We analyzed data from the 2008 to 2018 National Immunization Survey-Teen including coverage with one dose of quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MenACWY), Tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap), and one and three doses of Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. We compared vaccine coverage between those who recalled a provider recommendation and those who did not. Among those...
3 months ago
Panayiotis E Pelargos
CONCLUSION: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic will likely have a lasting effect on the practice of medicine. Our survey results have described the early effects on the neurosurgical workforce. Nearly all neurosurgeons experienced a significant decline in clinical volume, which led to many downstream effects. Ultimately, analysis of the effects of such a pervasive pandemic will allow the neurosurgical workforce to be better prepared for similar events in the future.
3 months 2 weeks ago
Cecilia Czakó
Cognitive impairment and dementia are major medical, social, and economic public health issues worldwide with significant implications for life quality in older adults. The leading causes are Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular cognitive impairment/dementia (VCID). In both conditions, pathological alterations of the cerebral microcirculation play a critical pathogenic role. Currently, the main pathological biomarkers of AD-β-amyloid peptide and hyperphosphorylated tau proteins-are detected...
3 months 2 weeks ago
Xuxin Chen
CONCLUSIONS: This study initially verified the feasibility of utilizing CT image and radiomics technology to develop a low-cost image marker to detect LN metastasis for assisting stratification of cervical cancer patients.
3 months 2 weeks ago
Kaitlin M McGrew
Administrative health databases have been used to monitor trends in infective endocarditis hospitalization related to non-prescription injection drug use (IDU) using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code algorithms. Because no ICD code for IDU exists, drug dependence and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) have been used as surrogate measures for IDU making misclassification error a threat to the accuracy of existing estimates. This serial cross-sectional analysis compared the unadjusted and...
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