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Medical word use in clinical encounters
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
Objective Doctors often use medical language with their patients despite findings from a variety of studies that have shown that patients frequently misunderstand medical terminology. Little is known about the patterns ...
Predictors of refusal during a multi-step recruitment process for a randomized controlled trial of arthritis education
(Elsevier BV, 2008)
Objective
Randomized controlled trials in patient education often have difficulty enrolling vulnerable populations – specifically, older, poorer and less educated individuals. We undertook a randomized controlled trial ...
A randomized controlled trial of an intervention to reduce low literacy barriers in inflammatory arthritis management
(Elsevier BV, 2009)
Objective
Test the efficacy of educational interventions to reduce literacy barriers and enhance health outcomes among patients with inflammatory arthritis.
Methods
The intervention consisted of plain language ...
Polymorphism of CYP2D6, CYP2C19, CYP2C9 and CYP2C8 in the Faroese population
(Springer Nature, 2005)
Objective
The purpose of the study was to study the distribution of poor and extensive metabolizers of CYP2C19 and CYP2D6 and to genotype for CYP2C8 and CYP2C9 among 312 randomly selected Faroese.
Methods and ...
Estimation of health effects of prenatal methylmercury exposure using structural equation models
(Springer Nature, 2002)
Background
Observational studies in epidemiology always involve concerns regarding validity, especially measurement error, confounding, missing data, and other problems that may affect the study outcomes. Widely used ...
Comparison of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Levels across Studies of Human Neurodevelopment
(Environmental Health Perspectives, 2002)
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent pollutants that are ubiquitous in the food chain, and detectable amounts are in the blood of almost every person in most populations that have been examined. Extensive evidence ...
Impaired Reproductive Development in Sons of Women Occupationally Exposed to Pesticides during Pregnancy
(Environmental Health Perspectives, 2008)
Objectives
The aim of this prospective study was to investigate whether occupational pesticide exposure during pregnancy causes adverse effects on the reproductive development in the male infants.
Design and ...
Negative Confounding in the Evaluation of Toxicity: The Case of Methylmercury in Fish and Seafood
(Informa UK Limited, 2008)
In observational studies, the presence of confounding can distort the true association between an exposure and a toxic effect outcome if the confounding variable is not controlled either in the study design or the analysis ...
Seven Deadly Sins of Environmental Epidemiology and the Virtues of Precaution
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2008)
The potentials for error in planning, conducting, reporting and utilizing epidemiologic results can be considered in terms of the traditional seven deadly sins. To counter these sins, epidemiologic virtues should be inspired ...
Underestimation of risk due to exposure misclassification
(Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 2004)
Exposure misclassification constitutes a major obstacle when developing dose-response relationships for risk assessment. A non-differentional error results in underestimation of the risk. If the degree of misclassification ...