Kawakami, Norito Sasaki, Natsu Kuroda, Reiko Tsuno, Kanami Imamura, Kotaro
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JMIR mental health
Downloading a COVID-19 contact tracing app may be effective in reducing users' worry about COVID-19 and psychological distress. This 2.5-month prospective study aimed to investigate the association of downloading a COVID-19 contact tracing app, the COVID-19 Contact Confirming Application (COCOA), released by the Japanese government, with worry abou...
Karim, Tasneem Dossetor, Rachael Huong Giang, Nguyen Thi Dung, Trinh Quang Son, Tran Vinh Hoa, Nguyen Xuan Tuyet, Nguyen Hong Van Anh, Nguyen Thi Chau, Cao Minh Bang, Nguyen Van
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Disability and rehabilitation
To document known risk factors, clinical severity, associated impairments and rehabilitation status of children presenting with cerebral palsy (CP) to the National Children's Hospital (NCH) in Hanoi, Vietnam. Active prospective ascertainment of cases of CP presenting between June and November 2017 to the NCH using surveillance modelled on the Paedi...
Setford, Steven Phillips, Stuart Grady, Mike
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Journal of diabetes science and technology
Described is a manufacturer's systematic post-market evaluation of the long-term clinical accuracy of a commercially available blood glucose monitoring (BGM) test strip product. Production batches of test strips were routinely and regularly sampled and evaluated in a clinical setting to assess product accuracy. Evaluations were performed on capilla...
Han, Benjamin H Mello, Elizabeth Tuazon, Ellenie Paone, Denise
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Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
Estimating the prevalence of drug use in the general population is important given its potential health consequences but is challenging. Self-reported surveys on drug use have inherent limitations that underestimate drug use. We evaluated the performance of linking urine drug testing with a local, representative health examination survey in estimat...
Madhekar, Anuja
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Resonance
India has had an incredible journey of becoming polio-free in a span of two decades. The conventional vaccination strategies and innovative approaches to ensure that every child in the remotest of the villages of India gets immunized have been an achievement in itself. The year 2020 marks six years of living a dream that a sprawling country like In...
Hamer, Davidson H Rizwan, Aisha Freedman, David O Kozarsky, Phyllis Libman, Michael
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Journal of travel medicine
In response to increased concerns about emerging infectious diseases, GeoSentinel, the Global Surveillance Network of the International Society of Travel Medicine in partnership with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was established in 1995 in order to serve as a global provider-based emerging infections sentinel network, con...
George, Justin Tadros, Rami O Rao, Ajit Png, C Y Maximilian Han, Daniel K Ilonzo, Nicole Faries, Peter L McKinsey, James F
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Vascular and endovascular surgery
Efficacy of duplex ultrasound (DU) surveillance of complex EVAR such as FEVAR and ChEVAR has not been studied. All patients undergoing FEVAR or ChEVAR at a single multihospital institution were retrospectively reviewed. Postoperative surveillance included DU at 1 month and CTA at 3 months. 82 patients met inclusion criteria including 39 (47.6%) ChE...
Yoshida, Naohiro Doyama, Hisashi Yano, Tomonori Horimatsu, Takahiro Uedo, Noriya Yamamoto, Yoshinobu Kakushima, Naomi Kanzaki, Hiromitsu Hori, Shinichiro Yao, Kenshi
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Objective: Early detection of gastric cancer has been the topic of major efforts in high prevalence areas. Whether advanced imaging methods, such as second-generation narrow band imaging (2G-NBI) can improve early detection, is unknown. Design: This open-label, randomised, controlled tandem trial was conducted in 13 hospitals. Patients at increased...
Urbach, Dietmar Awiszus, Friedemann Leiß, Sven Venton, Tamsin Specht, Alexander Vincent De Apfelbacher, Christian
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JMIR public health and surveillance
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe, the search for an effective medication to treat the symptoms of COVID-19 continues as well. It would be desirable to identify a medication that is already in use for another condition and whose side effect profile and safety data are already known and approved. The objective of this stu...
Rodrigues, D Muc, M Machado-Rodrigues, A M Padez, C
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Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
To observe the trends of overweight and obesity among Portuguese children from 2002 to 2016, before and during the years of the economic crisis, and compare these trends according to family's socioeconomic position (SEP). Prevalence rates were calculated using data from six studies providing comparable estimates from 2002, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016...
