Multicentre Study
Brazilian multicentre study of common mental disorders in primary care: rates and related social and demographic factors
... first multicentre study in Brazil examining the prevalence proportion of common mental disorders in primary care at- tendees and its association with patient socio- demographic ...
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Multicentre Study Highlighting Clinical Relevance of New High-Throughput Methodologies in Molecular Epidemiology of Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia
... A cohort of 182 respiratory specimens tested previously and found to be positive for P. jirovecii by real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) were included in the study. Specimens included bron- choalveolar lavage fluids ...
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Hand eczema severity and quality of life: a cross-sectional, multicentre study of hand eczema patients.
... The study is a cross-sectional, multicentre study and was performed within the European Environ- mental and Contact Dermatitis Research Group (EECDRG) ...the study for the patients only meant ...
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Health-related quality of life and utilities in gastric premalignant conditions and malignant lesions: a multicentre study in a high prevalence country
... For each questionnaire the corresponding diagnosis was obtained from the upper endoscopy result. Upper endoscopy is considered the ideal procedure for the diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal diseases due to its ...
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Male and female physical intimate partner violence and socio-economic position: a cross-sectional international multicentre study in Europe
... this study was the use of three indicators of SEP. In the study of inequalities, various indicators are linked to individual proximate determinants of health, thus a single measure of SEP is unlikely to ...
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Burnout in intensive care units - a consideration of the possible prevalence and frequency of new risk factors: a descriptive correlational multicentre study
... Notwithstanding these strengths, there are some limi- tations that need to be considered. Firstly, despite data from ten different ICUs, the survey was not conducted countrywide, so the extent to which generalizations ...
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Prognostic value of MGMT promoter methylation in glioblastoma patients treated with temozolomide-based chemoradiation: a Portuguese multicentre study
... our study, we attempted to clarify whether MGMT methylation is a biomarker of clinical outcome in GBM patients treated with the recently introduced TMZ-based chemoradiation protocol and how it compares to the ...
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Effect of Additional Treatments Combined with Conventional Therapies in Pregnant Patients with High-Risk Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Multicentre Study
... the study ’s limitations is its retrospective nature, but the rarity of these types of PAPS patients complicates performing prospective studies or clinical trials on addi- tional ...the study did not have a ...
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A comparison of the temporary placement of 3 different self-expanding stents for the treatment of refractory benign esophageal strictures: a prospective multicentre study
... Poisson regression showed that fully covered SEMSs and biodegradable stents resulted in a significantly lower number of reinterventions. More reinterventions were required in the SEPS group, which was due to the higher ...
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Neuromyelitis Optica in Portugal (NEMIPORT) - A Multicentre Study
... The demographic characteristics of our cohort are similar to those reported in other studies [16,17] namely regarding the female:male ratio (4.6:1), the median age at onset (36.0 years) and the disease course ...
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A prospective, multicentre study to investigate the efficacy,
... the study, six discontinued as permitted by the protocol due to uncontrolled acromegaly (GH > 2·5 µ g/l and/or IGF-1 above the upper limit of normal (ULN) for age), one withdrew consent and eight patients ...
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Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis in Portugal: A Multicentre Study
... this study had T2-hyperintense lesions on the first brain MRI, with supratentorial involvement being present in 98% of the cases and infratentorial involvement in ...
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p-Phenylenediamine sensitization is more prevalent in central and southern European patch test centres than in Scandinavian: results from a multicentre study
... This study showed some variations regarding the frequency of different sources of PPD expo- sure (Table 1). Exposure to topical treatment modalities such as sulfonamides and benzocaine was frequently reported in ...
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Molecular Staging of Patients with Colon Cancer. The C-Closer-II Study: A Multicentre Study in Portugal
... A total of 64 patients with colon carcinoma were considered for the study (Fig. 2). Five of them were excluded due to LN involvement (pN1 or pN2) by pathologic assessment. A total of 59 pN0 patients were enrolled ...
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Blunt Cardiac Injury in the Severely Injured - A Retrospective Multicentre Study.
... A total number of 47,580 patients were included in this study (Table 2). N = 1.090 had blunt cardiac trauma (AIS 1–6), representing 2.3% of patients included. The mean age of the collec- tive was 42.7 years, about ...
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Quality indicators for colonoscopy procedures: a prospective multicentre method for endoscopy units.
... a multicentre, prospective, and time friendly method for evaluating the quality of professional practices in endoscopy ...our study, widely recommended criteria for colonoscopy procedures were analysed, ...
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Exploring the effect of previous inactivated influenza vaccination on seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness against medically attended influenza: results of the European I-MOVE multicentre test-negative case-control study, 2011/2012-2016/2017
... From season 2011/2012 to 2016/2017, we included between 6 (in 2013/2014) and 12 (in 2015/2016, 2016/2017) sites in the pooled analysis of our multicentre study (Table 1). GPs enrolled 10 831 ILI patients, ...
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Do we need bone mineral density to estimate osteoporotic fracture risk? A 10-year prospective multicentre validation study
... ► this study provides a methodologically robust piece of evidence supporting the predictive value of FraX® (area under the curve: 0.72 to 0.93) in a general population setting. it also demonstrates, for the first ...
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The GO-DACT protocol: a multicentre, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group study to compare the efficacy of golimumab in combination with methotrexate (MTX) versus MTX monotherapy
... The trial visits schema was defined aiming at mimi cking the visit schedule used in clinical practice for patients starting a bDMARD therapy. Subjects were asked to at- tend a screening visit (visit 1), a baseline visit ...
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A multicentre molecular analysis of hepatitis B and blood-borne virus coinfections in Viet Nam.
... HBV genotype and mutation analyses were determined for specimens with detectable HBV DNA using a hemi-nested PCR targeting a 1.1 kb fragment of the pol gene, incorporating partial preS1 and the entire preS2 and S genes ...
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