Mahbubur Rahman

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..Pragmatic policies should be adopted by the World Bank, World Health Organization, other United Nations bodies, and respective governments to encourage biomedical research in the less-developed parts of the world...

..To investigate the degree of Japan's contribution to the research in basic biomedical science in the last decade...

..Recent studies have documented Japan's share of articles in different biomedical fields. However, Japan's contribution to urology and nephrology is not known...

..It is important that this information be incorporated into smoking prevention and cessation efforts, particularly among the urban poor and rural mass in South Asian countries where bidi smoking is widely prevalent...

..The recent increase in the share was statistically significant for Japan (p = 0.02, test for trend). Japan's share in nuclear medical research output is much higher than that in other biomedical fields...

..To examine the physicians' preference between Web and fax-based remote data entry (RDE) system for an ongoing randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Japan...

..Side by side, more pragmatic strategies such as well-defined tuberculin test, selective vaccination policy based on tuberculosis incidence in each administrative zone, and early vaccination of high risk groups, should be formulated...

..The objective of this study was to elicit the factors related to worldwide variation in biomedical research productivity...

..When implementing an influenza vaccination programme, this effect of cultural background observed in Japan should be taken into account in other countries...

..CONCLUSIONS: Appropriate measures should be taken in the ophthalmology field in Japan to increase the number of clinical research papers with a higher grade of evidence...

..57) during this period of time. CONCLUSIONS; Japan's contribution to the field of gastroenterology and hepatology is, in general, acceptable compared with that of other counties, but the contribution for RCTs not satisfactory...

..Japan's contribution to orthopedics research is higher than that in other biomedical fields, but the number of high-quality clinical research studies conducted in Japan in this field was meager, similar to that in other fields...

..1% vs. 12.7%, p=0.001). The overall picture of Japanese medical articles seems to be improving recently, at least in terms of statistical methods toward more diversified and sophisticated way of use, compared to the previous data...

..3%) were smaller and that of case reports was similar (5.7%). Although the overall contribution from Japan in the field of cardiovascular disease is satisfactory, high-quality clinical research is as meager as in other clinical fields...

..CONCLUSIONS: Japan's share of articles in pediatrics research was smaller than that in basic science and some of the other clinical fields. The number of articles from Japan providing a high level of evidence was meager in this field...

..41). Barriers in conducting epidemiologic research in Japan should be identified and appropriate measures should be taken accordingly...

..01), but not for clinical research (p=0.91). CONCLUSION: The barriers to boosting high quality clinical research in Japan should be determined and accordingly appropriate measures should be taken forthwith...

..In addition, the use of the ABCD system is expected to contribute to the development of more efficient data management systems for large-scale clinical trials...

..Accuracy and reproducibility of indirect ankle systolic blood pressure measurement, however, were not adequately improved by either of the wrapping methods...

..Past trials and meta-analyses indicate that it is somewhat effective in extending survival of patients with this cancer. The objective of this study was to perform a reappraisal of randomized clinical trials conducted in this regard...

..In conclusion, this therapy could become the standard adjuvant treatment regimen for gastric cancer patients after curative resection in Japan...

..An explanation for this phenomenon should be determined and remedial measures should be taken forthwith...

..To retrospectively evaluate the accuracy of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in depicting posterior cul-de-sac obliteration in patients with endometriosis...

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..To estimate the cost of treating a tuberculosis (TB) case and to analyse TB-related medical service utilisation, a cost-of-illness study was conducted for all patients with a primary diagnosis of TB admitted to a public hospital in Japan...

..The increase in the proportion of bystander-initiated CPR from the present level of 20-50% would be expected to rescue another 1800 victims of OHCA per year in Japan...

..0001). Recentrifugation of blood samples after storage causes a spurious rise in serum potassium concentration to the degree of clinical significance. Clinicians and biochemists should take appropriate measures to stop this practice...

..The cause-and-effect relationship is established between thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) and smoking. However, type of smoking material(s) most strongly related to TAO is not yet determined...

..To determine the influence of superstition about Taian (a lucky day)-Butsumetsu (an unlucky day) on decision to leave hospital. To estimate the costs of the effect of this superstition...

..Basic-EMT defibrillation system in Japan has yielded excellent result in terms of the survival of VF cases. However, much lower proportion of VF to all cases is responsible for lower overall rates of survival from OHCA in Japan...

..Controversies regarding the effectiveness of BCG revaccination and low incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among Japanese children prompted this study...

..CONCLUSION: The cost per case of TB prevented is heavily dependent on vaccine efficacy and the duration of protection, and is high compared with the cost of treating one child who has developed TB...

..CONCLUSION: Results of this study might be useful in predicting actual recruiters at the outset of clinical trials...

..To determine different countries' trend of contribution to clinical radiology journals and its relationship with impact factor...

..The objectives of this study were to determine the reasons for physicians' participation in and attitudes towards the Candesartan Antihypertensive Survival Evaluation in Japan (CASE-J) trial...

..However, population attributable risk percent (PAR%) has not been determined yet...

..The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in general populations. However, well-designed prospective studies in Asian populations are very limited...

..2% favored some form of incentives for patients. The results of this study should be useful for efficiently implementing randomized controlled trials in Japan...

..We sought to determine if this pattern persisted in men seeking care at a urology referral center and if worsening of symptoms was due to increase in prostate volume (PV)...

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..In addition, smoking could further jeopardize their health status. The objective of this study is to estimate the prevalence of cigarette and bidi smoking among the rickshaw pullers in Dhaka city...

..Future studies should use more sensitive methods and more systematically look for resistance patterns of other pathogens in addition to Hib and Spn...

..Resistant and susceptible viruses caused similar symptoms and illness duration. The prevalence of resistance was highest in children...

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