Cost drivers associated with autologous stem-cell transplant (ASCT) in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in a Japanese real-world setting: A structura... by Saaya Tsutsué, Shinichi Makita, Hiroya Asou, Shingo Wada, Wen Shi Lee, Dilinuer Ainiwaer, Koki Idehara, Sona-Sanae Aoyagi, Seok-Won Kim, Todd Taylor

“…The most frequent subsequent therapy was GDP-based with or without rituximab (n = 8, 7.41%). The mean [median] (SD) number of follow-up hospitalizations on or after SCT-related hospitalizations was 1.66 [1] (1.36), with a mean [median] (SD) length of hospital stay being 36.88 [34] (12.95) days. …”
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Retrospective Analysis of Healthcare Resource Use, Treatment Patterns, and Treatment-related Events in Patients with Huntington’s Disease–associated Chorea Initiated on Tetrabenazi... by Victor W. Sung, Sanjay K. Gandhi, Victor Abler, Brian Davis, Debra E. Irwin, Karen E. Anderson, Ravi G. Iyer

“…**Conclusions:** A small percentage of HD patients with chorea were treated with tetrabenazine and discontinuation rates were high among those receiving treatment, with a median time to discontinuation of 9 months.…”
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Use of Sildenafil in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Findings from a U.S. Healthcare Claims Database by Ariel Berger, John Edelsberg, Simon Teal, Marko A. Mychaskiw, Gerry Oster

“…Over this period, these patients averaged 7.1 (6.8) (median, 5) pharmacy dispensings for sildenafil, representing 273.4 (254.8) therapy-days (median, 180). …”
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Introduction: Science in the Press, Radio and TV: Franco’s Regime and the Popularization of Science by Florensa Clara, Almeida Hugo, Direito Bárbara

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Facilitators’ perspective towards implementation of Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) in a Government Medical College in Delhi: a cross-sectional study by Ghurumourthy Dhandapani, Sanjeev Kumar, Sunanda Gupta, Shveta Lukhmana

“…Data were collected using a validated self-developed questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha: 0.85). Results The median age of the faculty members was 42 years, with a median teaching experience of 10 years. …”
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Ischemic monomelic neuropathy following arteriovenous fistula surgery: a case report by Da Woon Kim, You Hyun Jeon, Miju Bae, Sang Heon Song

“…A nerve conduction study above the wrist revealed reduced compound muscle action potential (CMAP) of the left ulnar nerve and no CMAP of the left median nerve. This study also showed the absence of sensory amplitude in both the left median and left ulnar nerves. …”
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Evaluating the Efficacy of a Serious Game to Deliver Health Education About Invasive Meningococcal Disease: Clustered Randomized Controlled Equivalence Trial by Lauren Bloomfield, Julie Boston, Martin Masek, Lesley Andrew, Donna Barwood, Amanda Devine

“…ResultsOf the 788 participating students, the median postintervention correct score in both the MIApp and control cohorts was 14/16 (87.5% correct responses), compared with the median pre-intervention correct score of 6/16 (37.5% correct responses), representing a significant (P<.001) increase in IMD knowledge in both groups. …”
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Intracranial pressure monitoring in patients with spontaneous onset of orthostatic headache by Linda D’Antona, Sanjay Cheema, Dwij Mehta, Fion Bremner, Laurence Dale Watkins, Ahmed Kassem Toma, Manjit Singh Matharu

“…ICP monitoring identified 3 patients (7.9%) with low ICP (mean of the median 24-hour ICP − 2 mmHg ± 2SD) and 6 patients (15.8%) with high ICP (mean of the median 24-hour ICP 9 mmHg ± 3SD). …”
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Clinical outcomes of nephroureterectomy with bladder cuff excision or radical cystectomy for distal ureteral carcinoma invaded muscle of the ureteral orifice by Pan Li, Suoshi Jing, Yindong Kang, Bin Feng, Yunxin Zhang, Hui Ding, Juan Wang, Yingru Wang, Li Yang, Zhilong Dong, Junqiang Tian, Zhiping Wang, Zizhen Hou

“…Results Of all patients, the median follow-up time for RFS was 8 months and 18 months for CSS and OS. …”
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Real-world data of dacomitinib as first-line treatment for patients with EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer by Ji Eun Shin, Hyun Ae Jung, Sehhoon Park, Jong-Mu Sun, Se-Hoon Lee, Jin Seok Ahn, Myung-Ju Ahn, Byoung Yong Shim

“…The ORR was 84.3%. The median follow-up duration was 16.9 months, with a median PFS of 16.7 months (95% CI, 14.4 to 25.2). …”
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Factors determining primary or delayed surgery for unilateral, non-metastatic Wilms tumor: a multicentric Egyptian study by Ahmed Elgendy, Amr Abdelhamid AbouZeid, Mohamed El-Debeiky, Shaimaa Abdelsattar Mohammad, Marwa Romeih, Ahmed Ebeed, Mohamed Abouheba, Mohammed Hamada Takrouney, Mahmoud Mostafa, Ahmed Khairi, Osama El-Naggar, Sameh Shehata

“…Results The study included 112 patients with a median age of 2.8 years. The median largest tumor diameter was 12 cm (range, 7–16 cm). …”
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Factors influencing the determination of dosing weight in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) by Cassandra R. Montoya, Janine Y. Khan, Delphine Nelson, Gustave Falciglia

“…There were 115 infants over 4,643 infant-days with a median BW of 1060 g (interquartile range [IQR]: 750, 1300) and median time to regain BW of 10 days (IQR: 8, 13). …”
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An analysis of the cultivation, consumption and composition of home-grown cannabis following decriminalisation in the Australian Capital Territory by Cilla Zhou, Isobel Lavender, Rebecca Gordon, Danielle McCartney, Richard C. Kevin, Miguel A. Bedoya-Pérez, Iain S. McGregor

“…Cannabis intake was a median of 1 gram on a typical day used and the number of plants grown per year was a median of 4. …”
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Accidents and injuries related to paragliding on mount Babadağ, Turkey: A cross-sectional study by Ömer Faruk Karakoyun, Yalcin Golcuk

“…The majority of accidents were of low severity, with a median National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics score of 1 (interquartile range [IQR] 1–3) and a median injury severity score of 1 (IQR 1–7.75). …”
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Evaluating pre-processing and deep learning methods in medical imaging: Combined effectiveness across multiple modalities by Thien B. Nguyen-Tat, Tran Quang Hung, Pham Tien Nam, Vuong M. Ngo

“…Preprocessing methods evaluated include CLAHE + Butterworth, DWT + Threshold, CLAHE + median filter, Median-Mean Hybrid Filter, and Unsharp Masking + Bilateral Filter, concatenated with deep learning models: EfficiencyNet-B4, ResNet-50, DenseNet-169, VGG16 and MobileNetV2. …”
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Real-world Bleeding Outcomes and Costs Following Vascular Graft Anastomosis Using PROLENE Sutures with HEMO-SEAL Technology in Patients Undergoing Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair by Nadia Y. Sutton, Niels-Derrek Schmitz

“…Mean number of hemostat units used per discharge (2.34 vs 3.30; median = 2.0 in both groups; p=0.026) and median hemostat costs per discharge ($111 vs $186; p<0.01) were significantly lower in the HEMO-SEAL suture group compared with the standard PROLENE suture group. …”
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Urinary concentrations of arsenic species in older Dutch adults and risk of chronic kidney disease by Hannah P. McKeon, Weiluan Chen, Jan Dirk te Biesebeek, Nanette G. Vrijenhoek, Jacqueline J.M. Castenmiller, Marcel J.B. Mengelers

“…For total As, the detection frequency was 93 %, with median and 95th percentile concentrations of 10.96 and 131.53 µg/g creatinine, respectively. …”
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Assessment of sleep problems in patients with Kawasaki disease: a survey-based study by Samar Tharwat, Mohammed Kamal Nassar

“…To identify the presence of sleep disturbances, all participants completed Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ). Results The median age for KD patients was 6 years, and 51.5% of them were female, the median age at disease onset was 2.5 years, and the median disease duration was 3 years. …”
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Diet quality and characteristics of family environment in a school from Itajaí-SC by Ana Luisa Pereira Michereff, Larissa Tachini, Tatiana Mezadri, Doroteia Aparecida Höfelmann

“…Foods more consumed were: meat or poultry, dairy products and beans; fish, instant noodles, hamburgers or hot dogs and fried snacks presented low consumption. The median score of diet quality was 4, and ranged from -6 to 13 points, 57.1% of children had scores no greater than the median ones. …”
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Discrimination and calibration performances of non-laboratory-based and laboratory-based cardiovascular risk predictions: a systematic review by Yihun Mulugeta Alemu, Sisay Mulugeta Alemu, Dan Chateau, Nasser Bagheri, Kinley Wangdi

“…Laboratory predictors (eg, cholesterol and diabetes) had strong HRs, while body mass index in non-laboratory models showed limited effect. Median c-statistics were 0.74 for both models (IQR: lab 0.77–0.72; non-lab 0.76–0.70), with a median absolute difference of 0.01. …”
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