Carrier, Marie-Eve Kwakkenbos, Linda Nielson, Warren R Fedoruk, Claire Nielsen, Karen Milette, Katherine Pope, Janet Frech, Tracy Gholizadeh, Shadi Hummers, Laura
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Background Systemic sclerosis (SSc), or scleroderma, is a rare disease that often results in significant disruptions to activities of daily living and can negatively affect physical and psychological well-being. Because there is no known cure, SSc treatment focuses on reducing symptoms and disability and improving health-related quality of life (HR...
Lystad, Reidar P Fajardo Pulido, Diana Peters, Lorna Johnstone, Melissa Ellis, Louise A Braithwaite, Jeffrey Wuthrich, Viviana Amin, Janaki Cameron, Cate M Mitchell, Rebecca J
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Background Emerging adulthood is a unique segment of an individual’s life course. The defining features of this transitional period include identity exploration, instability, future possibilities, self-focus, and feeling in-between adolescence and adulthood, all of which are thought to affect quality of life, health, and well-being. A longitudinal ...
Helmberger, Thomas Arnold, Dirk Bilbao, José I de Jong, Niels Maleux, Geert Nordlund, Anders Peynircioglu, Bora Sangro, Bruno Sharma, Ricky A Walk, Agnes
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Background Radioembolization, also known as transarterial radioembolization or selective internal radiation therapy with yttrium-90 (90Y) resin microspheres, is an established treatment modality for patients with primary and secondary liver tumors. However, large-scale prospective observational data on the application of this treatment in a real-li...
Moein, Narges Mohamadi, Reyhane Rostami, Reza Nitsche, Michael Zomorrodi, Reza Ostadi, Amir Keshtkar, Abbasali
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Background Stuttering is a complex speech disorder that affects speech fluency. Recently, it has been shown that noninvasive brain stimulation may be useful to enhance the results of fluency interventions in adults who stutter. Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) is a method to enhance speech fluency in individuals who stutter. Adjunctive interventions...
Michel, Sophie Piekarski, Florian Fischer, Jan-Hendrik Hettler, Vanessa Adam, Elisabeth Hannah Holzer, Lars Lotz, Gösta Walther, Thomas Zacharowski, Kai Raimann, Florian Jürgen
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Background Point of care devices for performing targeted coagulation substitution in patients who are bleeding have become increasingly important in recent years. New on the market is the Quantra. It is a device that uses sonorheometry, a sonic estimation of elasticity via resonance, which is a novel ultrasound-based technology that measures viscoe...
Biersteker, Tom E Boogers, Mark J de Lind van Wijngaarden, Robert AF Groenwold, Rolf HH Trines, Serge A van Alem, Anouk P Kirchhof, Charles JHJ van Hof, Nicolette Klautz, Robert JM Schalij, Martin J
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Background Atrial fibrillation (AF), sternal wound infection, and cardiac decompensation are complications that can occur after cardiac surgery. Early detection of these complications is clinically relevant, as early treatment is associated with better clinical outcomes. Remote monitoring with the use of a smartphone (mobile health [mHealth]) might...
Bendtsen, Marcus Bendtsen, Preben Henriksson, Hanna Henriksson, Pontus Müssener, Ulrika Thomas, Kristin Löf, Marie
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Background Clustering of multiple lifestyle risk behaviors has been associated with a greater risk of noncommunicable diseases and mortality than one lifestyle risk behavior or no lifestyle risk behaviors. The National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden reported in 2018 that it is important to provide additional support to individuals with multi...
Kim, Esther Mallett, Robert Hrabok, Marianne Yang, Yajing Alicia Moreau, Chantal Nwachukwu, Izu Kravtsenyuk, Maryana Abba-Aji, Adam Li, Daniel Agyapong, Vincent I O
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Background Burnout is an increasingly common and insidious phenomenon experienced by workers in many different fields, although it is of particular concern among physicians and trainees due to the nature of their work. It is estimated that one-third of practicing physicians will experience burnout during their career, and this rate is expected to c...
Stuttard, Lucy Hewitt, Catherine Fairhurst, Caroline Weatherly, Helen Walker, Simon Longo, Francesco Maddison, Jane Boyle, Philip Beresford, Bryony
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Background People with hearing loss, particularly those who lose their hearing in adulthood, are at an increased risk of social isolation, mental health difficulties, unemployment, loss of independence, risk of accidents, and impaired quality of life. In the United Kingdom, a single third-sector organization provides hearing dogs, a specific type o...
Businelle, Michael S Walters, Scott T Mun, Eun-Young Kirchner, Thomas R Hébert, Emily T Li, Xiaoyin
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Background Adults who are homeless are more likely to have alcohol use disorders (AUDs) compared with domiciled adults. Although AUD treatments are commonly available, many factors (eg, transportation limitations and inability to schedule appointments) contribute to low treatment completion rates and low success rates of these interventions among a...
