Mitchell, Ashley Gutmann-Gonzalez, Abigail Brindis, Claire D Decker, Martha J
Access to comprehensive contraceptive services for youth is essential to improving sexual and reproductive health. However, youth in many countries still face substantial obstacles to contraceptive access and use. The purpose of this study is to compare the contraceptive access experiences and perspectives of pregnant and parenting Mexican-origin y...
Malhotra, Rahul Tan, Yi Wen Suppiah, Sumithra Devi Tay, Sarah Siew Cheng Tan, Ngiap Chuan Liu, Jianying Koh, Gerald Choon-Huat Chan, Alexandre Vaillancourt, Régis Group, PROMISE Study
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ObjectiveIn an earlier study, several tested International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) pictograms did not achieve validity among older adults in Singapore. In this study, for 27 unvalidated FIP pictograms, we (1) developed variants of each pictogram, (2) elicited the most-preferred variant, and (3) assessed the validity of the most-preferred va...
Nagy, Zoltan Z Kranitz, Kinga Ahmed, Iqbal Ike K De Francesco, Ticiana Mikula, Eric Juhasz, Tibor
PurposePilot study to evaluate adverse events and intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering of a novel, noninvasive glaucoma procedure, femtosecond laser, image-guided, high-precision trabeculotomy (FLIGHT).DesignProspective, nonrandomized, single-center, interventional, single-arm clinical trial.ParticipantsEighteen eyes from 12 patients with open-angle...
Hing, Samantha Gadgil, Ashok
User surveys alone do not accurately measure the actual use of improved cookstoves in the field. We present the results of comparing survey-reported and sensor-recorded cooking events, or durations of use, of improved cookstoves in two monitoring studies, in rural Maharashtra, India. The first was a free trial of the Berkeley-India Stove (BIS) prov...
Parikh, Chandni Ozonoff, Sally
PurposeTo compare the utility of single versus repeated autism screening in a sample at higher likelihood (HL) for ASD, following both screen positives and all screen negatives to diagnostic outcome.MethodsUsing a prospective infant sibling design, the current study followed 135 toddlers at HL for ASD and conducted diagnostic evaluations on the ful...
Long, Yu-Qin Xu, Qi-Ya Zhao, Wei-Ming Shan, Xi-Sheng Yang, Hao-Tian Zhuang, Kai Liu, Hong Ji, Fu-Hai Peng, Ke
BackgroundPostoperative delirium (POD) is common among older surgical patients and may be affected by dexmedetomidine and depth of anesthesia. We designed this pilot study to assess the feasibility of comparing dexmedetomidine with normal saline during light versus deep anesthesia on POD in older patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery.Methods...
Friedly, Janna Bauer, Zoya Penson, David Stillman, Arthur Vollmer, William Warren, Stephen Zhan, Chunliu Hsia, David Trontell, Anne Smith-Bindman, Rebecca
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Miller, Loren G McKinnell, James A Singh, Raveena D Gussin, Gabrielle M Kleinman, Ken Saavedra, Raheeb Mendez, Job Catuna, Tabitha D Felix, James Chang, Justin
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BackgroundNursing home residents are at high risk for infection, hospitalization, and colonization with multidrug-resistant organisms.MethodsWe performed a cluster-randomized trial of universal decolonization as compared with routine-care bathing in nursing homes. The trial included an 18-month baseline period and an 18-month intervention period. D...
Grodin, Erica N Donato, Suzanna Du, Han Green, ReJoyce Bujarski, Spencer Ray, Lara A
Short Summary: The Letter to the Editors regarding our article was reviewed. The take-home message is that substantively, the authors of the letter are referencing a paper that asks a different research question in a different set of studies. When we ask different questions, we are not surprised when we reach different answers.
Ring, Alistair Kilburn, Lucy S Pearson, Alex Moretti, Laura Afshari-Mehr, Angelica Wardley, Andrew M Gurel, Bora Macpherson, Iain R Riisnaes, Ruth Baird, Richard D
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Background Approximately 10-15% of triple negative breast cancers (TNBCs) have deleterious mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 and may benefit from polyadenosine 5'diphosphoribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor treatment. PARP inhibitors may also increase exogenous replication stress and thereby increase sensitivity to inhibitors of ataxia telangiectasia and...