Background The effectiveness of quality improvement (QI) strategies on diabetes care
remains unclear. We aimed to assess the effects of QI strategies on glycated haemoglobin (HbA …

… A thrombosis developed overnight, which doesn't leave me any doubt of the nature of my …
We classified early-stage cancer by using the tumor/node/metastasis classification as T 1-2 N 0 …

… Differences between groups were evaluated using Student t test or analysis of variance as
appropriate, followed by Tukey Honestly Significant Difference post hoc test. Simple linear …

Growing research interest in social support underscores the need for reliable and valid
measures of this concept. It is argued that measures that assess what indivMuals actually do by …

OBJECTIVES (i) An update of the national analysis a) to assess the confounding and modifying
effect of community and neighbourhood level ecological covariates on the air pollution–…

Background: Whether to continue oral anticoagulant therapy beyond 6 months after an “unprovoked”
venous thromboembolism is controversial. We sought to determine clinical …

Background Patients with active cancer have an increased risk of venous thromboembolism,
which results in substantial morbidity, mortality, and health care expenditures. The Khorana …

Background Thousands of systematic reviews have been conducted in all areas of health
care. However, the methodological quality of these reviews is variable and should routinely be …

… t c ) = ϕE[Y t c ], with ϕ representing the overdispersion parameter; PM t c is the air pollution
concentration on day t … the x i meteorologic covariate on day t in city c. The smooth functions …

Context Even though red blood cells (RBCs) are lifesaving in neonatal intensive care,
transfusing older RBCs may result in higher rates of organ dysfunction, nosocomial infection, and …