Ronchetti, Jérôme Terriau, Anthony
Nous examinons l’impact du chômage sur l’état de santé en mobilisant les données de l’Enquête santé et protection sociale (ESPS) sur la période 2010-2014. Nous appliquons d’abord une méthode d’estimation par double différence avec appariement sur score de propension afin de minimiser le biais de sélection, éliminer les effets fixes individuels et l...
Ogawa, Eiichi Toyoda, Hidenori Iio, Etsuko Jun, Dae Won Huang, Chung-Feng Enomoto, Masaru Hsu, Yao-Chun Haga, Hiroaki Iwane, Shinji Wong, Grace
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Cure rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for patients with active and inactive hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may differ, but well-controlled studies are limited. We aimed to evaluate DAA outcomes in a large East Asian HCV/HCC population compared with HCV/non-HCC patients. Using data from the Real-World E...
Amoah, Joe Stuart, Elizabeth A Cosgrove, Sara E Harris, Anthony D Han, Jennifer H Lautenbach, Ebbing Tamma, Pranita D
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Propensity score methods are increasingly being used in the infectious diseases literature to estimate causal effects from observational data. However, there remains a general gap in understanding among clinicians on how to critically review observational studies that have incorporated these analytic techniques. Using a cohort of 4967 unique patien...
Liang, Chih-Min Lee, Chun-Chang Lin, You-Hsin Yu, Zheng Yeh, Wen-Chih
This study investigated the spatial spillover effects of luxury housing during and after construction, in regards to increases in housing prices in neighboring areas as well as the spatial dependence of neighboring housing. This study focused on already completed luxury housing in Taipei, Taiwan. First, the nearest-neighbor matching approach of pro...
Jin, Hui Li, Lili Qian, Xinyi Zeng, Yiwu
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
Whether farmers live happily or not matters a nation’s harmony and stability. Recently, a large number of rural e-commerce service centers (RESC) have been emerged in rural China. RESC provide some convenient services for local residents, such as agent purchase, sales, and payment online. This paper devotes to empirically analyzing the impact of RE...
Amiri-Kordestani, L Xie, D Tolaney, S M Bloomquist, E Tang, S Ibrahim, A Goldberg, K B Theoret, M R Pazdur, R Sridhara, R
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Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology
Although the Adjuvant Paclitaxel and Trastuzumab (APT) trial has been adopted clinically, single-arm trials have limitations, and interest remains whether these patients with small node-negative human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive early breast cancer (EBC) would benefit from more intensive chemotherapy. This analysis explored w...
Chen, Kuan-Fu Tsai, Meng-Ying Wu, Chin-Chieh Han, Shih-Tsung
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Journal of intensive care medicine
Sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. With the advance of medical care, the mortality of sepsis has decreased in the past decades. Many treatments and diagnostic tools still lack supporting evidence. We conducted a retrospective population-based cohort study with propensity score matched subcohorts based on a prospectively c...
Zhao, Yali Li, Min
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International journal of environmental research and public health
The increased demand for water resources due to urban population and economic growth has worsened the urban water crisis. In order to address this issue, a policy of "developing a water-saving society" (namely, water-saving society policy) has been implemented in some Chinese cities. This study takes 285 cities at the prefecture level and above as ...
Zhang, Yajie Chen, Chun Hu, Jian Han, Yu Huang, Maosheng Xiang, Jie Li, Hecheng
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The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Anatomical segmentectomy via robotic thoracic surgery and video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) are minimally invasive surgical approaches for treatment of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, few research studies have compared early outcomes. A retrospective analysis was made of 774 patients, 298 who received robotic and 476 w...
Baba, Shoji Motomura, Goro Ikemura, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Ryosuke Utsunomiya, Takeshi Hatanaka, Hiroyuki Kawano, Koichiro Xu, Mingjian Nakashima, Yasuharu
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Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society
The purpose of this study was to clarify whether bone mineral density (BMD) of the necrotic lesion in precollapse osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is reduced according to Hounsfield unit (HU) values on computed tomography (CT). The superior one-third of the femoral head in the coronal section was set as the region of interest (ROI) for the ...