Use of email in a family practice setting: opportunities and challenges in patient- and physician-initiated communication.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objectives of this study were to understand the differences in mortality rate, risk factors for mortality, and cause of death distribution in three neonatal age sub-groups (0-2, 3-7, and 8-27 days) and assess the change in mortality rate with previous assessments to inform programmatic decision-making in...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Dandona R,Kumar GA,Bhattacharya D,Akbar M,Atmavilas Y,Nanda P,Dandona L

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stunting affects more than 161 million children worldwide and can compromise cognitive development beginning early in childhood. There is a paucity of research using neuroimaging tools in conjunction with sensitive behavioral assays in low-income settings, which has hindered researchers' ability to explain h...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Xie W,Jensen SKG,Wade M,Kumar S,Westerlund A,Kakon SH,Haque R,Petri WA,Nelson CA

更新日期：2019-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Use of fenfluramines for weight loss has been associated with the development of characteristic plaques on cardiac valves causing regurgitation. However, previously published studies of exposure to fenfluramines have been limited by relatively small sample size, short duration of follow-up, and the lack of a...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Dahl CF,Allen MR,Urie PM,Hopkins PN

更新日期：2008-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complex neurodevelopmental disorders may be characterized by subtle brain function signatures early in life before behavioral symptoms are apparent. Such endophenotypes may be measurable biomarkers for later cognitive impairments. The nonlinear complexity of electroencephalography (EEG) signals is believed t...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Bosl W,Tierney A,Tager-Flusberg H,Nelson C

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual fifth edition (DSM-5) provides new criteria for delirium diagnosis. We examined delirium diagnosis using these new criteria compared with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual fourth edition (DSM-IV) in a large dataset of patients assessed for delirium and related presen...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Meagher DJ,Morandi A,Inouye SK,Ely W,Adamis D,Maclullich AJ,Rudolph JL,Neufeld K,Leonard M,Bellelli G,Davis D,Teodorczuk A,Kreisel S,Thomas C,Hasemann W,Timmons S,O'Regan N,Grover S,Jabbar F,Cullen W,Dunne C,Kam

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although neutrophils have been linked to the progression of cancer, uncertainty exists around their association with cancer outcomes, depending on the site, outcome and treatments considered. We aimed to evaluate the strength and validity of evidence on the association between either the neutrophil to lympho...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Cupp MA,Cariolou M,Tzoulaki I,Aune D,Evangelou E,Berlanga-Taylor AJ

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Israeli citizens have been exposed to intense and ongoing terrorism since September 2000. We previously studied the mental health impact of terrorism on the Israeli population (Bleich et al., 2002), however the long-term impact of ongoing terrorism has not yet been examined. The present study evaluated the p...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Bleich A,Gelkopf M,Melamed Y,Solomon Z

更新日期：2006-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa remains challenging to measure relying on epidemiological modelling to evaluate the impact of investments and providing an in-depth analysis of progress and trends in malaria response globally. In malaria-endemic countries of Africa, there is increasing use of rout...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Alegana VA,Okiro EA,Snow RW

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive medical certification of deaths, the only feasible way to collect essential mortality data is verbal autopsy (VA). The Tariff Method was developed by the ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Serina P,Riley I,Stewart A,James SL,Flaxman AD,Lozano R,Hernandez B,Mooney MD,Luning R,Black R,Ahuja R,Alam N,Alam SS,Ali SM,Atkinson C,Baqui AH,Chowdhury HR,Dandona L,Dandona R,Dantzer E,Darmstadt GL,Das V,Dh

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive impairment is very common in late-life depression, principally affecting executive skills and information processing speed. The aim of the study was to examine the effect of antidepressant treatment on cognitive performances over a 10-year period. METHODS:The community-based cohort included 7381 p...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Carrière I,Norton J,Farré A,Wyart M,Tzourio C,Noize P,Pérès K,Fourrier-Réglat A,Ritchie K,Ancelin ML

更新日期：2017-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I) signalling is important for cancer initiation and progression. Given the emerging evidence for the role of the stroma in these processes, we aimed to characterize the effects of IGF-I on cancer cells and stromal cells separately. METHODS:We used an ex vivo culture model ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Rajski M,Zanetti-Dällenbach R,Vogel B,Herrmann R,Rochlitz C,Buess M

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent reviews on placebo effects in clinical trials suggest that objective changes following placebo treatments may not exist or, at least, have been considerably overestimated. However, the possibility that yet unidentified subsets of parameters are responsive to placebo treatments has not been taken into ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Meissner K,Distel H,Mitzdorf U

更新日期：2007-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood trauma increases the risk for adult obesity through multiple complex pathways, and the neural substrates are yet to be determined. METHODS:Participants from three population-based neuroimaging cohorts, including the IMAGEN cohort, the UK Biobank (UKB), and the Human Connectome Project (HCP), were ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Luo Q,Zhang L,Huang CC,Zheng Y,Kanen JW,Zhao Q,Yao Y,Quinlan EB,Jia T,Banaschewski T,Bokde ALW,Bromberg U,Büchel C,Flor H,Frouin V,Garavan H,Gowland P,Heinz A,Ittermann B,Martinot JL,Martinot MP,Nees F,Orfanos

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mind-body nexus has been a topic of growing interest. Further data are however required to understand the specific relationship between mood and anxiety disorders and individual physical health conditions, and to verify whether these psychiatric disorders are linked to overall medical burden. METHODS:Th...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Sanna L,Stuart AL,Pasco JA,Kotowicz MA,Berk M,Girardi P,Brennan SL,Williams LJ

更新日期：2013-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Caregivers may promote the uptake of science into patient care and the practice of evidence-informed medicine. The purpose of this study was to determine whether caregiver-mediated (non-clinical caregiver-delivered) interventions are effective in improving patient, caregiver, provider, or health system outco...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Fiest KM,McIntosh CJ,Demiantschuk D,Leigh JP,Stelfox HT

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cost-effectiveness of universal rotavirus (RV) vaccination is controversial in developed countries. As a result, RV vaccination programs do not currently exist in most European countries. Hospitalization is the main driver of RV disease costs, and prematurity, low birth weight (LBW) and underlying medica...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Bruijning-Verhagen P,Mangen MJ,Felderhof M,Hartwig NG,van Houten M,Winkel L,de Waal WJ,Bonten MJ

更新日期：2013-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The original article [1] contained an error in the presentation of Figure 1; this error has now been rectified and Figure 1 is now presented correctly. ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Wesolowski A,Taylor AR,Chang HH,Verity R,Tessema S,Bailey JA,Alex Perkins T,Neafsey DE,Greenhouse B,Buckee CO

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many developing countries, the majority of births are attended by traditional birth attendants, who lack formal training in neonatal resuscitation and other essential care required by the newly born infant. In these countries, the major causes of neonatal mortality are birth asphyxia, infection, and low-b...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Matendo R,Engmann C,Ditekemena J,Gado J,Tshefu A,Kinoshita R,McClure EM,Moore J,Wallace D,Carlo WA,Wright LL,Bose C

更新日期：2011-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In animal models, lack of thyroid hormone is associated with cone photoreceptor preservation, while administration of high doses of active thyroid hormone leads to deterioration. The association between thyroid function and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has not been investigated in the general popul...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Chaker L,Buitendijk GH,Dehghan A,Medici M,Hofman A,Vingerling JR,Franco OH,Klaver CC,Peeters RP

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three large new trials of unprecedented scale and cost, which included novel factorial designs, have found no effect of basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions on childhood stunting, and only mixed effects on childhood diarrhea. Arriving at the inception of the United Nations' Sustainable De...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Cumming O,Arnold BF,Ban R,Clasen T,Esteves Mills J,Freeman MC,Gordon B,Guiteras R,Howard G,Hunter PR,Johnston RB,Pickering AJ,Prendergast AJ,Prüss-Ustün A,Rosenboom JW,Spears D,Sundberg S,Wolf J,Null C,Luby SP,Hum

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to show the non-inferiority of home fortification with a daily dose of 3 mg iron in the form of iron as ferric sodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate (NaFeEDTA) compared with 12.5 mg iron as encapsulated ferrous fumarate in Kenyan children aged 12-36 months. In addition, we updated a recent meta-analysi...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Teshome EM,Andang'o PEA,Osoti V,Terwel SR,Otieno W,Demir AY,Prentice AM,Verhoef H

更新日期：2017-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are widespread concerns about communication and support for patients and families, especially when they face clinical uncertainty, a situation most marked in intensive care units (ICUs). Therefore, we aimed to develop and evaluate an interventional tool to improve communication and palliative care, usi...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Higginson IJ,Koffman J,Hopkins P,Prentice W,Burman R,Leonard S,Rumble C,Noble J,Dampier O,Bernal W,Hall S,Morgan M,Shipman C

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colorectal cancer (CRC), which frequently metastasizes to the liver, is one of the three leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Growing evidence suggests that a subset of cells exists among cancer stem cells. This distinct subpopulation is thought to contribute to liver metastasis; however, it ha...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Zhang SS,Han ZP,Jing YY,Tao SF,Li TJ,Wang H,Wang Y,Li R,Yang Y,Zhao X,Xu XD,Yu ED,Rui YC,Liu HJ,Zhang L,Wei LX

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of primarily laboratory-based studies found attention bias modification in socially anxious participants to lead to reduced anxiety. It is argued that the failure to replicate the positive results of attention bias modification in the study of Carlbring et al. may be due to reasons other than the application ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Emmelkamp PM

更新日期：2012-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The likelihood of recurrence in patients with breast cancer who have HER2-positive tumors is relatively high, although trastuzumab is a remarkably effective drug in this setting. Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 protein (STAT3), a transcription factor that is persistently tyrosine-705 phosp...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Sonnenblick A,Brohée S,Fumagalli D,Vincent D,Venet D,Ignatiadis M,Salgado R,Van den Eynden G,Rothé F,Desmedt C,Neven P,Loibl S,Denkert C,Joensuu H,Loi S,Sirtaine N,Kellokumpu-Lehtinen PL,Piccart M,Sotiriou C

更新日期：2015-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the current study was to assess the antidepressant efficacy and safety of Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort) extract WS 5570 at doses of 600 mg/day in a single dose and 1200 mg/day in two doses. METHODS:The participants in this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center clinic...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Kasper S,Anghelescu IG,Szegedi A,Dienel A,Kieser M

更新日期：2006-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To reduce inequalities between individuals with and without mental health problems, a better understanding is required of triggers and success of quit attempts among the third of smokers with mental health problems. The aim was to assess whether there are differences by mental health status in (i) triggers f...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Brose LS,Brown J,McNeill A

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional somatic symptoms and disorders are common and complex phenomena involving both bodily and brain processes. They pose major challenges across medical specialties. These disorders are common and have significant impacts on patients' quality of life and healthcare costs. MAIN BODY:We outline five pr...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Burton C,Fink P,Henningsen P,Löwe B,Rief W,EURONET-SOMA Group.

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a complex multifactorial disorder. This paper reports the prevalence of chronic fatigue (CF) and CFS in an ethnically diverse population sample and tests whether prevalence varies by social adversity, social support, physical inactivity, anxiety and depression. METHODS:Anal...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Bhui KS,Dinos S,Ashby D,Nazroo J,Wessely S,White PD

更新日期：2011-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) gene are a common cause of familial Parkinson's disease (PD). Variation around the LRRK2 locus also contributes to the risk of sporadic PD. The LRRK2 protein contains a central catalytic region, and pathogenic mutations cluster in the Ras of complex protein C termi...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Rudenko IN,Chia R,Cookson MR

更新日期：2012-02-23 00:00:00