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    • Assessing and Responding to Palliative Care Needs in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Results from a Model Intervention and Situation Analysis in Malawi 

      Herce, Michael E.; Elmore, Shekinah N.; Kalanga, Noel; Keck, James W.; Wroe, Emily B.; Phiri, Atupere; Mayfield, Alishya; Chingoli, Felix; Beste, Jason A.; Tengatenga, Listern; Bazile, Junior; Krakauer, Eric L.; Rigodon, Jonas (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Introduction: Palliative care is rarely accessible in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Partners In Health and the Malawi government established the Neno Palliative Care Program (NPCP) to provide palliative care in rural Neno ...

    • Assessing Associations between the AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 Functional Module and Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers 

      Blanco, Ignacio; Kuchenbaecker, Karoline; Cuadras, Daniel; Wang, Xianshu; Barrowdale, Daniel; de Garibay, Gorka Ruiz; Librado, Pablo; Sánchez-Gracia, Alejandro; Rozas, Julio; Bonifaci, Núria; McGuffog, Lesley; Pankratz, Vernon S.; Islam, Abul; Mateo, Francesca; Berenguer, Antoni; Petit, Anna; Català, Isabel; Brunet, Joan; Feliubadaló, Lidia; Tornero, Eva; Benítez, Javier; Osorio, Ana; Cajal, Teresa Ramón y; Nevanlinna, Heli; Aittomäki, Kristiina; Arun, Banu K.; Toland, Amanda E.; Karlan, Beth Y.; Walsh, Christine; Lester, Jenny; Greene, Mark H.; Mai, Phuong L.; Nussbaum, Robert L.; Andrulis, Irene L.; Domchek, Susan M.; Nathanson, Katherine L.; Rebbeck, Timothy R.; Barkardottir, Rosa B.; Jakubowska, Anna; Lubinski, Jan; Durda, Katarzyna; Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna; Claes, Kathleen; Van Maerken, Tom; Díez, Orland; Hansen, Thomas V.; Jønson, Lars; Gerdes, Anne-Marie; Ejlertsen, Bent; de la Hoya, Miguel; Caldés, Trinidad; Dunning, Alison M.; Oliver, Clare; Fineberg, Elena; Cook, Margaret; Peock, Susan; McCann, Emma; Murray, Alex; Jacobs, Chris; Pichert, Gabriella; Lalloo, Fiona; Chu, Carol; Dorkins, Huw; Paterson, Joan; Ong, Kai-Ren; Teixeira, Manuel R.; Hogervorst, Frans B. L.; van der Hout, Annemarie H.; Seynaeve, Caroline; van der Luijt, Rob B.; Ligtenberg, Marjolijn J. L.; Devilee, Peter; Wijnen, Juul T.; Rookus, Matti A.; Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne E. J.; Blok, Marinus J.; van den Ouweland, Ans M. W.; Aalfs, Cora M.; Rodriguez, Gustavo C.; Phillips, Kelly-Anne A.; Piedmonte, Marion; Nerenstone, Stacy R.; Bae-Jump, Victoria L.; O'Malley, David M.; Ratner, Elena S.; Schmutzler, Rita K.; Wappenschmidt, Barbara; Rhiem, Kerstin; Engel, Christoph; Meindl, Alfons; Ditsch, Nina; Arnold, Norbert; Plendl, Hansjoerg J.; Niederacher, Dieter; Sutter, Christian; Wang-Gohrke, Shan; Steinemann, Doris; Preisler-Adams, Sabine; Kast, Karin; Varon-Mateeva, Raymonda; Gehrig, Andrea; Bojesen, Anders; Pedersen, Inge Sokilde; Sunde, Lone; Jensen, Uffe Birk; Thomassen, Mads; Kruse, Torben A.; Foretova, Lenka; Peterlongo, Paolo; Bernard, Loris; Peissel, Bernard; Scuvera, Giulietta; Manoukian, Siranoush; Radice, Paolo; Ottini, Laura; Montagna, Marco; Agata, Simona; Maugard, Christine; Simard, Jacques; Soucy, Penny; Berger, Andreas; Fink-Retter, Anneliese; Singer, Christian F.; Rappaport, Christine; Geschwantler-Kaulich, Daphne; Tea, Muy-Kheng; Pfeiler, Georg; John, Esther M.; Miron, Alex; Neuhausen, Susan L.; Terry, Mary Beth; Chung, Wendy K.; Daly, Mary B.; Goldgar, David E.; Janavicius, Ramunas; Dorfling, Cecilia M.; van Rensburg, Elisabeth J.; Fostira, Florentia; Konstantopoulou, Irene; Garber, Judy; Godwin, Andrew K.; Olah, Edith; Narod, Steven A.; Rennert, Gad; Paluch, Shani Shimon; Laitman, Yael; Friedman, Eitan; Liljegren, Annelie; Rantala, Johanna; Stenmark-Askmalm, Marie; Loman, Niklas; Imyanitov, Evgeny N.; Hamann, Ute; Spurdle, Amanda B.; Healey, Sue; Weitzel, Jeffrey N.; Herzog, Josef; Margileth, David; Gorrini, Chiara; Esteller, Manel; Gómez, Antonio; Sayols, Sergi; Vidal, Enrique; Heyn, Holger; Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique; Léoné, Melanie; Barjhoux, Laure; Fassy-Colcombet, Marion; de Pauw, Antoine; Lasset, Christine; Ferrer, Sandra Fert; Castera, Laurent; Berthet, Pascaline; Cornelis, François; Bignon, Yves-Jean; Damiola, Francesca; Mazoyer, Sylvie; Sinilnikova, Olga M.; Maxwell, Christopher A.; Vijai, Joseph; Robson, Mark; Kauff, Noah; Corines, Marina J.; Villano, Danylko; Cunningham, Julie; Lee, Adam; Lindor, Noralane; Lázaro, Conxi; Easton, Douglas F.; Offit, Kenneth; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Couch, Fergus J.; Antoniou, Antonis C.; Pujana, Miguel Angel (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      While interplay between BRCA1 and AURKA-RHAMM-TPX2-TUBG1 regulates mammary epithelial polarization, common genetic variation in HMMR (gene product RHAMM) may be associated with risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation ...

    • Assessing Binocular Interaction in Amblyopia and Its Clinical Feasibility 

      Kwon, MiYoung; Lu, Zhong-Lin; Miller, Alexandra; Kazlas, Melanie; Hunter, David G.; Bex, Peter J. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Purpose To measure binocular interaction in amblyopes using a rapid and patient-friendly computer-based method, and to test the feasibility of the assessment in the clinic. Methods: Binocular interaction was assessed in ...

    • Assessing brain plasticity across the lifespan with transcranial magnetic stimulation: why, how, and what is the ultimate goal? 

      Freitas, Catarina; Farzan, Faranak; Pascual-Leone, Alvaro (Frontiers Media S.A., 2013)
      Sustaining brain and cognitive function across the lifespan must be one of the main biomedical goals of the twenty-first century. We need to aim to prevent neuropsychiatric diseases and, thus, to identify and remediate ...

    • Assessing care providers’ perceptions and beliefs about physical activity in infants and toddlers: baseline findings from the Baby NAP SACC study 

      Hesketh, Kathryn R; van Sluijs, Esther MF; Blaine, Rachel E; Taveras, Elsie M; Gillman, Matthew W; Benjamin Neelon, Sara E (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: As children now spend increasing amounts of time in out-of-home care, care providers play an important role in promoting positive health behaviors. Little is currently known about providers’ perceptions and ...

    • Assessing Cell-to-Cell DNA Methylation Variability on Individual Long Reads 

      Qu, Wei; Tsukahara, Tatsuya; Nakamura, Ryohei; Yurino, Hideaki; Hashimoto, Shin-ichi; Tsuji, Shoji; Takeda, Hiroyuki; Morishita, Shinichi (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      Understanding cell-to-cell variability in cytosine methylation is essential for understanding cellular perturbation and its molecular machinery. However, conventional methylation studies have focused on the differences in ...

    • Assessing Cerebral Autoregulation via Oscillatory Lower Body Negative Pressure and Projection Pursuit Regression 

      Taylor, J. Andrew; Tan, Can Ozan; Hamner, J. W. (MyJove Corporation, 2014)
      The process by which cerebral perfusion is maintained constant over a wide range of systemic pressures is known as “cerebral autoregulation.” Effective dampening of flow against pressure changes occurs over periods as short ...

    • Assessing Development Assistance for Mental Health in Developing Countries: 2007–2013 

      Gilbert, Barnabas J.; Patel, Vikram; Farmer, Paul E.; Lu, Chunling (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      Chunling Lu and colleagues investigate how international aid spent on mental health projects has changed between 2007 and 2013.

    • Assessing Early Access to Care and Child Survival during a Health System Strengthening Intervention in Mali: A Repeated Cross Sectional Survey 

      Johnson, Ari D.; Thomson, Dana R.; Atwood, Sidney; Alley, Ian; Beckerman, Jessica L.; Koné, Ichiaka; Diakité, Djoumé; Diallo, Hamed; Traoré, Boubacar; Traoré, Klenon; Farmer, Paul E.; Murray, Megan; Mukherjee, Joia (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Background: In 2012, 6.6 million children under age five died worldwide, most from diseases with known means of prevention and treatment. A delivery gap persists between well-validated methods for child survival and ...

    • Assessing Error Awareness as a Mediator of the Relationship between Subjective Concerns and Cognitive Performance in Older Adults 

      Buckley, Rachel F.; Laming, Gemma; Chen, Li Peng Evelyn; Crole, Alice; Hester, Robert (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Objectives: Subjective concerns of cognitive decline (SCD) often manifest in older adults who exhibit objectively normal cognitive functioning. This subjective-objective discrepancy is counter-intuitive when mounting ...

    • Assessing Hospital Readmission Risk Factors in Heart Failure Patients Enrolled in a Telemonitoring Program 

      Ronquillo, Jeremiah G.; Nieves, Regina; Chueh, Henry C.; Kvedar, Joseph C.; Jethwani, Kamal (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)
      The purpose of this study was to validate a previously developed heart failure readmission predictive algorithm based on psychosocial factors, develop a new model based on patient-reported symptoms from a telemonitoring ...

    • Assessing mediated models of family change in response to infant home visiting: A two-phase longitudinal analysis 

      Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Easterbrooks, M. Ann (Wiley, 2006)
      The objective of this study was to assess whether a mediated model of change could account for the long-term effects of infant home-visiting services observed at ages 5 and 7 years in a high-risk cohort. Participants were ...

    • Assessing multidimensional worry in cancer survivors 

      Moye, Jennifer; Wachen, Jennifer Schuster; Mulligan, Elizabeth; Doherty, Kelly; Naik, Aanand D. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
      Anxiety in cancer survivors has been characterized in numerous ways. One way is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms [1]. This approach usefully captures intrusive thoughts, avoidance, and hyperarousal – focusing ...

    • Assessing Murine Resistance Artery Function Using Pressure Myography 

      Shahid, Mohd; Buys, Emmanuel (MyJove Corporation, 2013)
      Pressure myograph systems are exquisitely useful in the functional assessment of small arteries, pressurized to a suitable transmural pressure. The near physiological condition achieved in pressure myography permits in-depth ...

    • Assessing Ovarian Cancer Risk When Considering Elective Oophorectomy at the Time of Hysterectomy 

      Vitonis, Allison F.; Titus-Ernstoff, Linda; Cramer, Daniel William (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2011)
      Objective To develop a risk-factor score that may provide additional guidance to women and their physicians regarding elective bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy at the time of hysterectomy. Methods From a case–control ...

    • Assessing predictors of delayed antenatal care visits in Rwanda: a secondary analysis of Rwanda demographic and health survey 2010 

      Manzi, Anatole; Munyaneza, Fabien; Mujawase, Francisca; Banamwana, Leonidas; Sayinzoga, Felix; Thomson, Dana R; Ntaganira, Joseph; Hedt-Gauthier, Bethany L (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Early initiation of antenatal care (ANC) can reduce common maternal complications and maternal and perinatal mortality. Though Rwanda demonstrated a remarkable decline in maternal mortality and 98% of Rwandan ...

    • Assessing Residual Motion for Gated Proton-Beam Radiotherapy 

      Sharp, Gregory C.; Lu, Hsiao-ming; Trofimov, Alexei V.; Tang, Xiaoli; Jiang, Steve B.; Turcotte, Julie; Gierga, David P.; Chen, George T. Y.; Hong, Theodore Sunki (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2007)
      Gated radiation therapy is a promising method for improving the dose conformality of treatments to moving targets and reducing the total volume of irradiated tissue. Target motion is of particular concern in proton beam ...

    • Assessing Strength of Evidence of Appropriate Use Criteria for Diagnostic Imaging Examinations 

      Lacson, Ronilda C.; Raja, Ali Shahbaz; Ip, Ivan; Schneider, Louise Isabel; Bain, Paul A.; Mita, Carol Ann; Whelan, Julia; Silveira, Patricia; Dement, David; Khorasani, Ramin; Osterbur, David Lee (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)
      Objective For health information technology tools to fully inform evidence-based decisions, recommendations must be reliably assessed for quality and strength of evidence. We aimed to create an annotation framework for ...

    • Assessing Supplement Safety — The FDA's Controversial Proposal 

      Cohen, Pieter (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2012)

    • Assessing the acceptability and feasibility of encounter decision aids for early stage breast cancer targeted at underserved patients 

      Alam, Shama; Elwyn, Glyn; Percac-Lima, Sanja; Grande, Stuart; Durand, Marie-Anne (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Women of low socioeconomic status (SES) diagnosed with early stage breast cancer are less likely to be involved in treatment decisions. They tend to report higher decisional regret and poorer communication. ...