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Emergency department quality and safety indicators in resource-limited settings: an environmental survey
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015)Background: As global emergency care grows, practical and effective performance measures are needed to ensure high quality care. Our objective was to systematically catalog and classify metrics that have been used to measure ... -
Emergency department visits for acute asthma by adults who ran out of their inhaled medications
(OceanSide Publications, Inc., 2014)This study was designed to determine the percentage of asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits made by patients who recently ran out of their inhaled short-acting beta-agonists or inhaled corticosteroids and to ... -
Emergency Department-Based Brief Intervention to Reduce Risky Driving and Hazardous/Harmful Drinking in Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Background Risky driving and hazardous drinking are associated with significant human and economic costs. Brief interventions for more than one risky behavior have the potential to reduce health-compromising behaviors in ... -
Emergency Surgery Data and Documentation Reporting Forms for Sudden-Onset Humanitarian Crises, Natural Disasters and the Existing Burden of Surgical Disease
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012)Following large-scale disasters and major complex emergencies, especially in resource-poor settings, emergency surgery is practiced by Foreign Medical Teams (FMTs) sent by governmental and non-governmental organizations ... -
Emerging Breast Cancer Epidemic: Evidence from Africa
(BioMed Central, 2010)Cancer is an increasingly important public health problem in developing countries, including Africa [1]. As public and professional awareness of the cancer problem has grown, so has interest in the pattern of disease ... -
The emerging genomics and systems biology research lead to systems genomics studies
(BioMed Central, 2014)Synergistically integrating multi-layer genomic data at systems level not only can lead to deeper insights into the molecular mechanisms related to disease initiation and progression, but also can guide pathway-based ... -
Emerging trends in geospatial artificial intelligence (geoAI): potential applications for environmental epidemiology
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Emotion Suppression and Mortality Risk Over a 12-Year Follow-up
(2013)Objective: Suppression of emotion has long been suspected to have a role in health, but empirical work has yielded mixed findings. We examined the association between emotion suppression and all-cause, cardiovascular, and ... -
Empiric Deworming and CD4 Count Recovery in HIV-Infected Ugandans Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Background: There is conflicting evidence on the immunologic benefit of treating helminth co-infections (“deworming”) in HIV-infected individuals. Several studies have documented reduced viral load and increased CD4 count ... -
Empirical Impact Evaluation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel in Australia, Canada, UK and USA
(BioMed Central, 2013-11-14)Background: The active recruitment of health workers from developing countries to developed countries has become a major threat to global health. In an effort to manage this migration, the 63rd World Health Assembly adopted ... -
Empirically evaluating the WHO global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel’s impact on four high-income countries four years after adoption
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Shortages of health workers in low-income countries are exacerbated by the international migration of health workers to more affluent countries. This problem is compounded by the active recruitment of health ... -
Employing Demand-Based Volumetric Forecasting to Identify Potential for and Roles of Devices in Scale-Up of Medical Male Circumcision in Zambia and Zimbabwe
(JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2016)Introduction: Devices for male circumcision (MC) are becoming available in 14 priority countries where MC is being implemented for HIV prevention. Understanding potential impact on demand for services is one important ... -
Endogenous Levels of Circulating Androgens and Risk of Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Among Women: A Nested Case–Control Study from the Nurses' Health Study Cohorts
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2015)Background: Androgens, which are known to be altered by exogenous hormone use, have recently been linked to alterations of the gut microbiome and mucosal immune function. No study has evaluated the association between ... -
Endogenous sex steroids in premenopausal women and risk of breast cancer: the ORDET cohort
(BioMed Central, 2013)Introduction: Previous studies showed that higher testosterone levels are associated with greater risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women, but the literature is scant and inconsistent. Methods: In a prospective nested ... -
Endogenous Steroid Hormone Concentrations and Risk of Breast Cancer Among Premenopausal Women
(Oxford University Press, 2006)Background. Higher levels of endogenous sex steroid hormones are associated with increased risks of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Data for premenopausal women are sparse, in part because of the complexity of ... -
Endometriosis and Mammographic Density Measurements in the Nurses’ Health Study II
(Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2016)Endometriosis and mammographic density have been hypothesized to be influenced by sex steroid hormonal exposures in adolescence and early adulthood. We investigated the association between endometriosis and mammographic ... -
Endometriosis and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
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Endopeptidase-Mediated Beta Lactam Tolerance
(Public Library of Science, 2015)In many bacteria, inhibition of cell wall synthesis leads to cell death and lysis. The pathways and enzymes that mediate cell lysis after exposure to cell wall-acting antibiotics (e.g. beta lactams) are incompletely ... -
Endophenotype Network Models: Common Core of Complex Diseases
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Historically, human diseases have been differentiated and categorized based on the organ system in which they primarily manifest. Recently, an alternative view is emerging that emphasizes that different diseases often have ... -
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Inflammation in Obesity and Diabetes
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2010-09-03)Obesity is a major problem worldwide that increases risk for a wide range of diseases, including diabetes and heart disease. As such, it is increasingly important to understand how excess adiposity can perturb normal ...