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Implementing a pilot leadership course for internal medicine residents: design considerations, participant impressions, and lessons learned
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Effective clinical leadership is associated with better patient care. We implemented and evaluated a pilot clinical leadership course for second year internal medicine residents at a large United States Academic ... -
Implementing a Sleep Health Education and Sleep Disorders Screening Program in Fire Departments: A Comparison of Methodology
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2016)Objective: The objective of this study is to compare three methods of administering a sleep health program (SHP) in fire departments. Methods: An SHP, comprising sleep health education and screening for common sleep ... -
Implementing composite quality metrics for bipolar disorder: towards a more comprehensive approach to quality measurement
(Elsevier BV, 2010)Objective We implemented a set of processes of care measures for bipolar disorder that reflect psychosocial, patient preference, and continuum of care approaches to mental health, and examined whether veterans with ... -
Implementing Evidence-Based Alcohol Interventions in a Resource-Limited Setting: Novel Delivery Strategies in Tomsk, Russia
(Informa Healthcare, 2012)Effective implementation of evidence-based interventions in “real-world” settings can be challenging. Interventions based on externally valid trial findings can be even more difficult to apply in resource-limited settings, ... -
Implementing evidence-based interventions in health care: application of the replicating effective programs framework
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2007)Background We describe the use of a conceptual framework and implementation protocol to prepare effective health services interventions for implementation in community-based (i.e., non-academic-affiliated) settings. ... -
Implicit Memory in Korsakoff’s Syndrome: A Review of Procedural Learning and Priming Studies
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2012-05-17)Korsakoff’s syndrome (KS) is characterized by dense anterograde amnesia resulting from damage to the diencephalon region, typically resulting from chronic alcohol abuse and thiamine deficiency. This review assesses the ... -
Importance and Potential of Dentists in Identifying Patients at High Risk of Diabetes
(Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., 2018-12-11)Objectives: The study was conducted to assess the utilization of medical and dental services by dental patients at two dental school hospitals and to approximate the number of patients having no known previous diagnosis ... -
The Importance of Bottlenecks in Protein Networks: Correlation with Gene Essentiality and Expression Dynamics
(Public Library of Science, 2007)It has been a long-standing goal in systems biology to find relations between the topological properties and functional features of protein networks. However, most of the focus in network studies has been on highly connected ... -
Importance of collection in gene set enrichment analysis of drug response in cancer cell lines
(Nature Publishing Group, 2014)Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) associates gene sets and phenotypes, its use is predicated on the choice of a pre-defined collection of sets. The defacto standard implementation of GSEA provides seven collections yet ... -
The Importance of Delirium: Economic and Societal Costs
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)Although a number of studies have documented the negative clinical and economic consequences of delirium, interventions to prevent and treat delirium are infrequently implemented. The importance of delirium may continue ... -
Importance of Early Postnatal Weight Gain for Normal Retinal Angiogenesis in Very Preterm Infants
(American Medical Association (AMA), 2012)OBJECTIVE: To assess WINROP (https://winrop.com), an algorithm using postnatal weight measurements, as a tool for the prediction of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in a large geographically and racially diverse study ... -
Importance of Forward Leaning in Optimizing Sitting Position for Administration of Labor Neuraxial Analgesia in Term Parturients: An Ultrasonographical Study
(2021-06-23)Abstract Background: There is controversy on the optimal sitting position for women in labor undergoing neuraxial analgesia placement in relation to the interspinous space. In this prospective observational study, we ... -
The Importance of Networking in Autism Gaze Analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Visual scanning of faces in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been intensively studied using eye-tracking technology. However, most of studies have relied on the same analytic approach based on the ... -
The Importance of Optical Optimization in Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) and Digital Pathology Imaging
(BioMed Central, 2008)In the last 10 years, whole slide imaging (WSI) has seen impressive progress not only in image quality and scanning speed but also in the variety of systems available to pathologists. However, we have noticed that most ... -
The importance of prevention of calciphylaxis in patients who are at risk and the potential fallibility of calcimimetics in the treatment of calciphylaxis for patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism
(Oxford University Press, 2009)A 43-year-old African American with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) associated with membranous nephropathy and a previously failed renal transplant had received cinacalcet to treat his secondary hyperparathyroidism. Serum ... -
Importance of remission and residual somatic symptoms in health-related quality of life among outpatients with major depressive disorder: a cross-sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is strongly associated with an impaired quality of life (QoL), which is itself affected by various factors. Symptom-oriented ratings poorly reflect the impact of disease on the ... -
Importance of Reward and Prefrontal Circuitry in Hunger and Satiety: Prader-Willi Syndrome vs. Simple Obesity
(2011)Background: The majority of research on obesity has focused primarily on clinical features (eating behavior, adiposity measures), or peripheral appetite-regulatory peptides (leptin, ghrelin). However, recent functional ... -
Importance of Size, Sulfation, and Anticoagulant Activity in the Potentiation of Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor by Hepa
(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1989)Heparin was previously reported to potentiate the mitogenic activity of endothelial cell mitogens in a crude extract of bovine hypothalami (Thornton, S. C., Mueller, S. N., and Levine, E. M. (1983) Science 222, 623-625). ... -
Imported Fasciola hepatica Infection in the United States and Treatment with Triclabendazole
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2001)Infection with Fasciola hepatica, a liver trematode, is not frequently reported in the United States. We describe 2 patients, both originally from Cape Verde, who illustrate the spectrum of clinical presentations of F. ... -
Importin-13 genetic variation is associated with improved airway responsiveness in childhood asthma
(BioMed Central, 2009)Background: Glucocorticoid function is dependent on efficient translocation of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) from the cytoplasm to the nucleus of cells. Importin-13 (IPO13) is a nuclear transport receptor that mediates ...