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500 | Stress images were compared with the rest images. | 0 |
501 | The groups were treated with: Cost-effectiveness of paclitaxel plus cisplatin in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer CC Earle and WK Evans Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre, University of Ottawa and Cancer Care Ontario, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L6 Summary The aim of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of combination chemotherapy with paclitaxel/cisplatin, compared with standard etoposide/cisplatin in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). | 0 |
502 | Procedures were performed by one surgical group (RM, RF, MM) with patients in the lateral decubitus position. | 0 |
503 | __ossible CES_ was defined if patients had only renal dysfunction referring to a post-catheterization serum creatinine gt;1.3 mg/dl and an increase of creatinine level by gt;50% from the baseline value two weeks after the procedure without skin lesions (11,15)(Table 1). | 1 |
504 | Epidemiology Inputs The epidemiology inputs included population size, mortality rates, and fracture incidence rates. | 0 |
505 | Methods Patients and treatment From October 1987 to June 1998, we had performed 92 cases of heart transplantation at the National Taiwan University Hospital. | 0 |
506 | We used two separate logistic regression models (Statistical Analysis System [SAS] PROC LOGIST) to estimate the probability of 30-day death for each case. | 0 |
507 | Volume 107, Number 5, May 1999 * Environmental Health Perspectives 360 Articles * Drinking water arsenic in Utah: a cohort mortality study period for most cancers to become manifest and an exposure to drinking water with 50 ppb arsenic or higher will yield a cumulative arsenic exposure of 1,000 ppb-years. | 0 |
508 | Among patients without cholecystectomy, the risks at 5 or more years of follow-up were significantly elevated for cancers of liver (SIR = 2.0, CI = 1.2-3.1) and gallbladder (SIR = 2.7, CI = 1.5-4.4) and near unity for cancers of extrahepatic bile duct (SIR = 1.1), ampulla of Vater (SIR = 1.0) and pancreas (SIR = 1.1). | 0 |
509 | We excluded 284 patients because the severity of TR was not reported, resulting in a study sample of 5,223. | 0 |
510 | The diagnosis of HCM was later based on the echocardiographic finding of a nondilated hypertrophic left ventricle in the absence of diseases known to cause ventricular hypertrophy (1,2). | 1 |
511 | Reinfarction was defined as recurrent chest pain lasting gt;20 min with either new ST segment elevation, emergency angiographic confirmation of a reoccluded vessel or recurrent elevation of cardiac enzymes. | 1 |
512 | We defined mild RI as a SCr value of 136 to 265 mol/liter in men and 120 to 265 mol/liter in women. | 1 |
513 | A number of validation sets in diverse community-based samples have tested and extended the use of these models to a more generalizable cohort of patients with symptoms suggestive of coronary disease (including typical, atypical and nonanginal chest pain). | 1 |
514 | Materials and Methods Methods for patient selection, preoperative analysis, surgical procedures, and follow-up studies for patients undergoing bilateral LVRS in this clinical program have been described previously. | 0 |
515 | Individuals with a primary diagnosis of learning disability or dementia, or those aged less than 15 years at time of discharge were excluded. | 0 |
516 | Secondary recurrent stenosis was defined as a treated segment with a duplex classification of stenosis 60% or greater after additional percutaneous interventions.12 Response in patients with hypertension was defined as follows11: __ured_ hypertension was normotension, that is, diastolic blood pressure less than 90 mm Hg and systolic blood pressure less than 140 mm Hg, without medications; __mproved_ hypertension was normotension, that is, diastolic blood pressure less than 90 mm Hg and/or systolic blood pressure less than 140 mm Hg, with the same or fewer medications, or diastolic blood pressure 15 mm Hg below baseline with the same or fewer medications; __o effect_ was no change or inability to meet these criteria for cure or improvement of hypertension, and was considered a treatment failure. | 1 |
517 | Minor stroke was defined as a transient cerebral ischemia; major stroke as a persistent cerebral ischemia. | 1 |
518 | One case with Marfan syndrome had successful combined heart transplantation and resection of dissecting aortic aneurysm of ascending aorta and aortic arch. | 0 |
519 | Equipment and procedures in our laboratory conform to standards set by the American Thoracic Society (13). | 0 |
520 | A patient was considered a smoker if he or she had ever smoked, and we did not try to ascertain which patients were continuing to smoke despite having been advised to stop. | 0 |
521 | 4. CooperRC, StamlerJ, DyerA, Garside D. The decline in mortality from coronary heart disease, USA, 1968-1975. | 0 |
522 | The pretest probability of coronary disease was defined using the probability of disease from 12 variables (2_4). | 0 |
523 | TSI includes several hundred cost centers; these cost centers were consolidated into 18 departmentlevel cost centers to analyze the main drivers of costs in patients with renal dysfunction. | 0 |
524 | Reinfarction was defined as: 1) recurrent chest pain or ischemic symptoms _30 min and recurrent ST-segment elevation, new Q waves or new left bundle-branch block; 2) total creatine kinase (CK) at least twice the upper limit of normal and gt;25% or 200 U/mL over the previous value, with an elevated CK-MB level; or 3) a rise in CK-MB above the upper limit of normal after it had reverted to the normal range. | 1 |
525 | Clinical outcomes including bleeding complications were assessed to seven days or hospital discharge, whichever occurred first. | 0 |
526 | These criteria were converted to computer queries that we used to create the list of cases or candidate ADEs, which we call signals (Appendix A). | 0 |
527 | The diagnosis of acute MI required a history of typical chest pain lasting at least 20 min, a standard 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG) showing ST elevation of 2mm or more in two or more contiguous leads and subsequent evolution of cardiac enzymes. | 1 |
528 | Methods Population This study included 1,257 subjects (age 25 to 74 years) who were randomly sampled from North Glasgow and had attended the Third Glasgow Monica Risk Factor Survey in 1992. | 0 |
529 | Methods Study population Patients with one or more syncopal attacks were diagnosed as having unexplained syncope if no cause was found after a standard diagnostic evaluation. | 0 |
530 | We included a second model that provided insight into estimated costs for annual medical therapy. | 0 |
531 | Cellulosic (cuprophan, cellulose acetate) and noncellulosic (polysulfone, polymethylmethacrylate, and polyacrylonitrile) membranes were employed in IHD patients. | 0 |
532 | Optimistic expectations and survival after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation | 0 |
533 | The incremental value of nuclear testing was determined by calculating the change in global chi-square after having added the nuclear variables to the pre-scan information with respect to the detection of silent ischemia (logistic regression model) and with respect to prognosis (Cox model). | 0 |
534 | Variables chosen for comparison were those included in both databases and were predefined based on previous studies evaluating outcome in AMI patients. | 0 |
535 | Since 1995, we have used rabbit antithymocyte globulins for induction therapy. | 0 |
536 | A stroke was defined as any neurologic impairment of motor, sensory or cognitive function that persisted >24 h, or was associated with death within 24 h, and that could not be explained by other neurologic (ie, dementia, head trauma), and/or medical (ie, metabolic abnormalities, drugs) etiologies; and a TIA as neurologic impairment that resolved within 24 h, and was unexplained by other neurologic and/or medical etiologies. | 1 |
537 | The average response rate to the supplementary questionnaire in all three cohorts wasgt;90%. | 0 |
538 | Acute MI was defined as two of the following: angina, electrocardiographic changes, or elevated enzyme levels (creatine kinase, creatine kinase-myocardial band isoenzyme). | 1 |
539 | Strategies are required to ensure effective implementation of guidelines. | 0 |
540 | The multivariate model of mortality was tested for goodness of fit according to the Hosmer-Lemeshow method.17 P lt; .05 was considered statistically significant in all final analyses. | 0 |
541 | Myocardial infarction was defined as the presence of at least two of these criteria: prolonged angina gt;30 min; total creatinine kinase elevation gt;2 times the upper limit of normal as confirmed by creatine kinase-MB fraction isoenzyme elevation; electrocardiogram evidence of infarction, defined as ST-segment elevation of at least 0.1 mV (measured 0.2 s after the J-point) in two contiguous leads; or new significant Q-wave of gt;0.04 s duration or having a depth greater than one-fourth of the corresponding R-wave amplitude, or both. | 1 |
542 | At the time of study entry, other not low risk (1) clinical indicators were similar in patients with and without antecedent angina. | 0 |
543 | In women, age standardised total mortality was lower in North Karelia (350 (95% CI 312-388)) than in Kaunas (440 (95% CI 413 to 467)). | 0 |
544 | In addition, virtually all patients presented symptomatically during this period, whereas more recently a significant number of patients have presented via the NHSBSP. | 0 |
545 | Prophylaxis for hypersensitivity reactions consisted of dexamethasone 8 mg i.v. 1 hour and promethazine 50 mg i.v. plus ranitidine 50 mg i.v. 30 minutes before paclitaxel administration. | 0 |
546 | All patients were initially treated with oxygen, intravenous nitroglycerin, aspirin and intravenous heparin (given as a 10,000-U bolus). | 0 |
547 | Transfers to another acute care hospital where the receiving hospital also identified heart failure as the primary reason for admission were identified through linking the study population and the inpatient discharge abstract during 1994_1995 to 1999_2000. | 0 |
548 | Any model involving time would also face the problem that no time of event is available for electrocardiographically defined myocardial infarction. | 0 |
549 | Hypertension stage was defined following current guidelines (6) as stage I (SBP of 140 to 159 mm Hg or DBP of 90 to 99 mm Hg); stage II or greater (SBP _160 mm Hg or DBP _100 mm Hg); isolated systolic hypertension, stage I (SBP of 140 to 159 mm Hg and DBP lt;90 mm Hg) and isolated systolic hypertension, stages II to III (SBP _160 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure lt;90 mm Hg). | 1 |
550 | This study was not designed to test a single hypothesis but rather to explore whether the groups differed in the aspects detailed above. | 0 |
551 | The remaining 73 patients, who represent our study group, received simultaneous RA revascularization because of uncontrolled hypertension, deteriorating renal function that was associated with either severe (gt;70%) RA stenosis or at least 50% stenosis of the RA supplying a solitary functioning kidney, or both. | 0 |
552 | Concomitant medications and procedures were left to the discretion of the treating physician. | 0 |
553 | The data set of candidate predictor variables was much larger for those with prior episodes, because any diagnosis or procedure occurring on a prior episode clearly occurred before the index episode and therefore was admissible as a potential risk predictor. | 0 |
554 | Peritonitis was diagnosed on white blood cell count openface gt; 100 in the dialysis effluent, with or without a positive culture 20 . An exit site infection was diagnosed as exudate and redness around the exit site with or without positive culture 21 . Statistical analysis Values are expressed as means standard deviations. | 1 |
555 | Hence, a total of 8,145 records from the BHDPP study population were eligible for inclusion. | 0 |
556 | Thus data analysis first addressed the following question: __ere characteristics of patients undergoing mitral valve repair similar to those of patients undergoing replacement?_ Lack of similarity necessitated use of methods specific for nonrandomized comparisons. | 0 |
557 | During the study period, the hemodialysis prescription had to remain unchanged. | 0 |
558 | All angioplasty patients had adequate vascular access in the form of femoral venous and arterial cannlas before cardiac arrest. | 0 |
559 | All patients fulfilling these criteria in Table 1 General characteristics of the cohort of 4400 3-year survivors of a first cancer in childhood First cancer Patients Mean year of first cancer Mean age at Mean Type of the first cancer treatment treatment Females first cancer follow-up (%) (years) (years) Rt, no Ct (%) Ct, no Rt (%) Rt + Ct (%) Ewing s sarcoma 148 1976 36 9 12 9 5 86 Bone sarcoma 143 1977 42 12 12 23 37 29 Soft tissue sarcoma 588 1974 45 6 15 17 21 49 Neuroblastoma 566 1975 50 2 15 16 31 40 Wilm s tumour 816 1973 47 3 16 11 24 62 Central nervous system 722 1972 51 7 16 59 1 25 Bilateral retinoblastoma 82 1978 49 1 12 29 1 67 Unilateral retinoblastoma 59 1977 45 3 13 25 18 39 Hodgkin s disease 374 1975 35 10 13 23 8 68 Non-Hodgkin s lymphoma 456 1977 28 8 12 9 39 51 Others 446 1975 51 7 15 28 25 28 Total 4400 1974 45 6 15 24 20 47 Rt, radiotherapy; Ct, chemotherapy. | 0 |
560 | The criteria used for the diagnosis of AMI were elevation of creatine kinase MB fraction in conjunction with a clinical presentation and/or electrocardiographic evidence consistent with a diagnosis of AMI. | 1 |
561 | Swan-Ganz catheter use and mortality of myocardial infarction patients. | 0 |
562 | Separate multivariate models, adjusted for relevant baseline characteristics listed in Figure 3, were used to assess changes in SF-36 physical and mental summary component scores, and the independent relationship of treatment and AF recurrence with QoL. | 0 |
563 | Environmental Health Perspectives * Volume 107, Number 5, May 1999 359 Articles * Lewis et al. * Current vital status was provided by the LDS church (these records are updated by the church on a weekly basis) * From the LDS Ancestral File (LDS, Salt Lake City, UT), the International Genealogical Index (LDS), and the Social Security Death Index (LDS): date ofbirth and place ofdeath * From the death certificates: death date, death town, death state, underlying cause ofdeath, and other causes ofdeath * From the Utah Health Department (Salt Lake City, UT): information on the duration ofresidence in the community, and coding ofthe underlying cause of death according to the International Classification ofDiseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes (17). | 0 |
564 | In 1995, a primary publication concerning only patients treated with radiotherapy alone (de Vathaire et al, 1995), dealt with 1055 patients and 26 solid SMN. | 0 |
565 | Rejection was defined as biopsy-proven pathologic finding and clinical event leading to specific immunosuppressive intervention. | 0 |
566 | Analyses were performed (1) using only hemoglobin and hemoglobin2 as independent variables and (2) using hemoglobin and hemoglobin2 plus the additional covariates age, race, gender, diabetes, BMI, albumin, missed treatments, and URR. | 0 |
567 | The questions concerning nasal symptoms had been specifically designed for a previous study [9]. | 0 |
568 | Age-specific population data for men and women aged 50 through 99 years in Florida from 2000 through 2025 were obtained from a census publication [14], which accounted for all forms of in-migration, outmigration, and mortality. | 0 |
569 | Dose estimation was not performed for the 96 patients who received brachytherapy. | 0 |
570 | Although we could have simply compared the crude SGC procedure rate at any given hospital with its SMR, we instead developed an SPR An SGC procedure is an event that canbe counted,just as deaths can be counted. | 0 |
571 | TB is diagnosed by bacteriological culture or histological evidence of granuloma with caseafication necrosis or clinical findings consistent with active TB (fever, sputum, malaise, fatigue, loss of apetite, weight loss, night sweats) and full course of chemotherapy is indicated for these patients. | 1 |
572 | Also, diagnoses were recorded on only about half of the billing records. | 0 |
573 | Data collection Patient variables included demographic information, prematurity (gestational age lt;37 weeks), birth weight, age, weight and body surface area at surgery and associated noncardiac malformations. | 1 |
574 | Here the nursing notes of patients who were discharged from the obstetric units of a Korean tertiary teaching hospital prior to March 2000 were analyzed. | 0 |
575 | The staging classification used was as follows: stage I - operable disease with pathologically negative axillary nodes; stage II - operable disease with pathologically positive nodes; stage III - locally advanced, inoperable disease; stage IV - metastatic disease at presentation. | 0 |
576 | Condition after successful defibrillation-left ventricular failure or pulmonary oedema, cardiogenic shock (systolic blood pressure < 80 mm Hg with peripheral circulatory shutdown), coma on admission to hospital. | 1 |
577 | Several results from this process included: a) weights for the regression equation derived from the Pryor model were similar to the current patient series; b) calculated risk by the clinical index was linearly related to the rate of cardiac death (similar results as in the developmental set), and c) we compared the original clinical risk to several possible revised scores for the index by the concordance index for a Cox model estimating cardiac death (Cox indices similarly ranged from 0.71 to 0.76). | 0 |
578 | Only patients with an intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay longer than 24 hours were included. | 0 |
579 | Characteristics specific to the probands were having a previous diagnosis of primary breast cancer or of ovarian cancer, and of having bilateral breast cancer. | 0 |
580 | Methods Study population Between January 2000 and June 2001, patients admitted to coronary care units with a clinical diagnosis of UA were included in the study if they fulfilled the following criteria: a) class III-IV angina beginning in the last 2 months (new onset angina) or previous stable angina increasing in frequency, duration of pain or occurring at lower threshold (progressive angina); b) last episode of pain at rest or at minimal exertion occurring in the previous 48 hours and lasting more than 10 minutes. | 0 |
581 | Person-years were calculated from January 1, 1971 until the diagnosis of prostate cancer, death, or end of follow-up (December 31, 1989), whichever occurred first. | 0 |
582 | R4*) Include/Exclude matches BMC Health Services Research 2003, 3 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/3/10 Page 3 of 9 (page number not for citation purposes) QTools has two particular strengths: it is being developed for all three EMRs and it can be distributed as a runtime version that will run predefined extractions with a minimum amount of effort from the general practitioner. | 0 |
583 | Weight, height, and waist and hip circumference were determined for each subject; waist circumference was measured at the narrowest diameter between the costal margin and the iliac crest, and hip circumference was measured at the greatest diameter over the glutei. | 0 |
584 | Respiratory decompensation was defined as an episode of dyspnea or wheezing which: 1. was sufficiently severe to require emergency outpatient treatment or hospitalization; 2. was attributed to increased airflow obstruction by the attending ED physician and 3. was treated with nebulized bronchodilators and/or corticosteroids. | 1 |
585 | Perivalvular leak was defined as moderate or severe aortic regurgitation not the result of prosthetic dysfunction. | 1 |
586 | In particular, urinary incontinence was defined as answering __es_ to the following question: __ave you had any involuntary urinary loss during the last month?_; overactive bladder without urinary incontinence was defined by answering __es_ to one or two of the following questions: __n average, do you urinate more than eight times a day and/or more than once during the night?_ and __ave you any urgency symptoms?_, but answering no to the question: __ave you had any involuntary urinary loss during the last month?_ If a women answered yes to all the three questions, she was considered to have urinary incontinence, the type being determined from the answer of the questionnaire proposed by Wein and Rovner 7 and Abrams and Wein 8 (i.e. stress, mixed and urge incontinence). | 1 |
587 | Whenever possible, repeated spirometry was performed at least once at Chapman Medical Center within 3 months of surgery, but subsequent spirometry data were obtained from the referring site. | 0 |
588 | A multiple variable Cox proportional hazards model was developed to assess the impact of CRLimit relative to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors for time to event after controlling for age, ejection fraction, presence of coronary artery disease, systolic blood pressure, sodium, and creatinine. | 0 |
589 | To determine whether to assess predictive factors as continuous, ordinal or categorical variables, we examined their relationships with the primary outcome, death or MI at 42 days. | 0 |
590 | Six categories of variables were considered: (1) socioeconomic and demographic background (age, gender, education, marital status, employment, income); (2) clinical features (blood pressure, duration of treatment, number of doses per day); (3) clinician communication (previous inquiry by clinician regarding medicinal adherence) (4) health beliefs (perceived effectiveness of treatment and susceptibility to adverse health outcomes); (5) health status (SF-36 indices); and (6) social support (a summary score derived from the 9-item support inventory). | 0 |
591 | 2,5 In addition, a single trained and experienced technician unaware of the fates of individual patients redigitized the scans from almost all participants in the study to ensure accuracy and consistency of measurements because the presence of a false lumen may complicate assessment of the outline of the aneurysm in cases of dissection. | 0 |
592 | In both treatment groups, intravenous heparin was administered for 3 to 5 days. | 0 |
593 | More procedures late in gestation were performed as a result of high risk indications, and therefore, all women with an invasive procedure after 20 weeks of gestation were excluded (13 amniocentesis, 0 chorionic villus sampling). | 0 |
594 | Oliguria was defined as urine output of _400 ml/day. | 1 |
595 | Accuracy of prenatal echocardiographic diagnosis and prognosis of fetuses with conotruncal anomalies | 0 |
596 | In classifying the number of diseased vessels, a left main stenosis _50% was regarded as equivalent to two-vessel disease. | 1 |
597 | A significant stenosis of the left main coronary artery was counted as two-vessel disease if the left coronary was non-dominant and as three-vessel disease if dominant, as well as left main disease. | 1 |
598 | In addition, surgical procedures were recorded and classified according to the Danish Classification of Surgical Procedures and Therapies (Danish National Board of Health, 1986). | 0 |
599 | Additionally, data were collected on drive-line infection, which was defined as any infection that (1) was detected by the positive cultures obtained from the drive-line exit site and (2) required treatment with antimicrobial agents. | 1 |
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