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IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY AND THE EVALUATION OF DISORDERS OF HYPERSOMNOLENCE IN THE SLEEP LAB
(2022-05-10)Improved understanding of the complex physiology that underlies sleep disorders and new technologies applied to the field of sleep medicine require a re-calibration of patient care standards and new approaches to meeting ... -
Improving practice in community-based settings: a randomized trial of supervision – study protocol
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Evidence-based treatments for child mental health problems are not consistently available in public mental health settings. Expanding availability requires workforce training. However, research has demonstrated ... -
Improving Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Care and Related Services in Eastern Rwanda
(Public Library of Science, 2010)Younsook Lim and colleagues describe the Rwanda Learning Collaborative on Child Health, which aimed to improve and extend the impact of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS. -
Improving Public Reporting and Data Validation for Complex Surgical Site Infections After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Hip Arthroplasty
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Background: Deep and organ/space surgical site infections (D/OS SSI) cause significant morbidity, mortality, and costs. Rates are publicly reported and increasingly used as quality metrics affecting hospital payment. Lack ... -
Improving Sedative-Hypnotic Prescribing in Older Hospitalized Patients: Provider-Perceived Benefits and Barriers of a Computer-Based Reminder
(Springer-Verlag, 2007)Background: Older adults are commonly prescribed sedative-hypnotic (SH) medications when hospitalized, yet these drugs are associated with important adverse effects such as falls and delirium. Objective: To identify ... -
Improving the Postmarket Surveillance of Total Joint Arthroplasty Devices
(Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., 2008)Objective: To evaluate the FDA’s approval process and postmarket surveillance strategies for THR devices. Design: The FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) 510k releasable database was used to document ... -
Improving the Robustness of Pseudo-Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling to Off-Resonance and Pulsatile Flow Velocity
(Wiley, 2017-10)Purpose To improve pseudo continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL) robustness to off-resonance and pulsatile blood flow velocity. Methods The Bloch equations were solved to evaluate the effect of labeling parameters ... -
Improving the Statistical Detection of Regulated Genes from Microarray Data Using Intensity-Based Variance Estimation
(BioMed Central, 2004)Background: Gene microarray technology provides the ability to study the regulation of thousands of genes simultaneously, but its potential is limited without an estimate of the statistical significance of the observed ... -
Improving transgender health by building safe clinical environments that promote existing resilience: Results from a qualitative analysis of providers
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Transgender (TG) individuals experience discordance between their sex at birth and their gender identity. To better understand the health care needs and characteristics of TG youth that contribute to resilience, ... -
Improving Treatment Intensification to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Cluster Randomized Trial
(BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Blood pressure, lipid, and glycemic control are essential for reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Many health care systems have successfully shifted aspects of chronic disease management, including ... -
Improving Women's Health through Universal Health Coverage
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Jonathan Quick and colleagues discuss how women's health world-wide can be improved through universal health coverage. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary -
Impulsive Social Influence Increases Impulsive Choices on a Temporal Discounting Task in Young Adults
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Adolescents and young adults who affiliate with friends who engage in impulsive behavior are more likely to engage in impulsive behaviors themselves, and those who associate with prosocial (i.e. more prudent, future oriented) ... -
Impurity of Stem Cell Graft by Murine Embryonic Fibroblasts – Implications for Cell-Based Therapy of the Central Nervous System
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)Stem cells have been demonstrated to possess a therapeutic potential in experimental models of various central nervous system disorders, including stroke. The types of implanted cells appear to play a crucial role. Previously, ... -
Imputing Amino Acid Polymorphisms in Human Leukocyte Antigens
(Public Library of Science, 2013)DNA sequence variation within human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes mediate susceptibility to a wide range of human diseases. The complex genetic structure of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) makes it difficult, ... -
Imputing gene expression from optimally reduced probe sets
(2012)Measuring complete gene expression profiles for a large number of experiments is costly. We propose an approach in which a small subset of probes is selected based on a preliminary set of full expression profiles. In ... -
In Acute Stroke, Can CT Perfusion-Derived Cerebral Blood Volume Maps Substitute for Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in Identifying the Ischemic Core?
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Background and Purpose In the treatment of patients with suspected acute ischemic stroke, increasing evidence suggests the importance of measuring the volume of the irreversibly injured “ischemic core.” The gold standard ... -
In Bangla There Is No Word for Vagina—Reflections on Language, Sexual Health, and Women’s Access to Healthcare in Resource-Limited Countries
(Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,, 2016)Language plays a central role in how gender and sexuality are described. In Bangla or Bengali, physicians, when educating and counseling women patients, do not have a socially acceptable word for “vagina”. If language is ... -
In Sickness and in Health: Perineuronal Nets and Synaptic Plasticity in Psychiatric Disorders
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)Rapidly emerging evidence implicates perineuronal nets (PNNs) and extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules that compose or interact with PNNs, in the pathophysiology of several psychiatric disorders. Studies on schizophrenia, ...