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..This trial protocol is aimed to test the SCION-PAIN program, a multi modular structured intervention to improve self management in cancer patients with pain...

..Until now information programs to reduce anxiety were mainly delivered preoperatively, completely neglecting informational needs of non-elective ICU patients...

..Mediastinitis is a rare, but serious complication of cardiac surgery. It has a significant socioeconomic impact and high morbidity. The purpose of this study was to determine pre-, intra-, and postoperative predictors of mediastinitis...

..This paper describes the design and objectives of the CARLA Study...

..The autonomic dysfunction is a potential mediator of the association of behavioural risk factors with adverse health outcomes. We studied the association of HRV with behavioural risk factors in an elderly population...

..However, analyses from several registries give different results. A common shortcoming of all those analyses is the fact that they concentrate on evidence from nonrandomized trials...

..The main motivation for this work are two recent papers that recommend estimating multinomial logistic models with correlated responses by using a Poisson likelihood which is statistically correct but computationally inefficient...

..We reintroduce an exact Mantel-Haenszel (MH) procedure for meta-analysis with binary endpoints which is expected to work especially well in sparse data, e.g., in meta-analyses of safety or adverse events...

..It is frequently ignored that estimation of frequency-domain parameters is a 2-step procedure where statistical error from the first step (spectral estimation) is neglected in subsequent analyses...

..The method is motivated and demonstrated by a data set from the HALLUCA study, an epidemiological study which investigated provision of medical care to lung cancer patients in the region of Halle in the eastern part of Germany...

..Propensity score analyses are expected to improve on at least some of these problems. We aimed to systematically review all propensity score analyses comparing off- and on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting...

..We aimed for a comparison of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and propensity score (PS) analyses in similar populations...

..Our findings reveal some important predictors for self-taking but, somewhat surprisingly, neither self-taking nor any of the potential confounders predicts scoring a penalty kick...

..We illustrate the various tests with an example from dermatology on occupational hand eczema in hairdressers...

..We feel that the Latent class mixture model is a valuable tool for assessing the course of atopic dermatitis, yielding a wealth of communicable and graphically displayable results...

..We conclude that among these, the Mixed Models approach is the method of choice because it allows flexible modelling of correlation structure and is, meanwhile, also available in standard statistical software packages...

..Reasons for this might be poorer medical care in former times, internationals being killed in action during World War II, and a changing distribution of causes of death during the 20th century...

..The purpose of this present study was to evaluate Self-care Improvement through Oncology Nursing (SCION) program to reduce distressing anorexia, nausea, and emesis (ANE) in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy...

..0 +/- 1.2 vs. 8.3 +/- 1.0 ml/0.1 kPa), and the wet-to-dry ratio (9.4 +/- 0.8 vs. 16.7 +/- 1.2). After 3 h of warm ischemia and 8 h of reperfusion, pulmonary function and lung water content improved in the endotoxin-tolerant group...

..The effect of patient age on circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and their mobilization during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) was assessed...

..The authors analyzed survival experience depending on several prognostic factors from a population-based cancer registry and compared this to survival data from the literature...

..The study examined whether a measure of learning potential is prospectively related to the success of a vocational rehabilitation program for patients with severe mental illness in Germany...

..For a proper interpretation of study results, both estimated effect size and estimated precision are necessary ingredients...

..However, other complications of cirrhosis are not reflected. This study investigates whether quantitative liver function tests predict survival and increase prognostic accuracy of the MELD...

..Conversion from laparoscopically or vaginal hysterectomy to open abdominal hysterectomy is associated with the indication and type of hysterectomy started with and is considerably higher for laparoscopic than vaginal hysterectomies...

..There are conflicting results and a lack of population-based data regarding the association of HRV with CVD risk factors and its potential role as independent cause or mediator of CVD risk...

..We therefore critically discuss the review of Thayer et al. concerning the relationship between autonomic imbalance, heart rate variability and cardiovascular disease risk factors...

..To determine the prevalence of treatment need for temporomandibular disorders in adult populations by meta-analysis of nonpatient studies and to investigate factors influencing temporomandibular disorder treatment-need estimates...

..Original data from two published field studies of hospital infection control based on this design are used here to illustrate the impact of different statistical models on the interpretation of the results...

..The proposed method is illustrated by application to data of a cohort study investigating the effect of smoking on coronary heart disease...

..We aimed to investigate elevated plasma ADMA concentrations as a prospective risk marker for adverse events in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery...

..The frequent usage of detergents is being addressed because of the introduction of German legislation of recent date (the Approved Code of Practice 531 on 'wet work')...

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