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Open AccessMarked deterioration in the quality of life of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis during the last two years of life
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic disease with a high symptom burden and poor survival that influences patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL). We aimed to evaluate IPF patients’ sympto...
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Open AccessEnd-of-life care of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive disease with median survival from 2 to 7 years. Palliative care is an important part of patients´ care as lung transplantation is not an option for the majo...
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Open AccessRe-evaluation of diagnostic parameters is crucial for obtaining accurate data on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
The FinnishIPF registry is a prospective, longitudinal national registry study on the epidemiology of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). It was designed to describe the characteristics, management and progno...
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Lempel—Ziv Index for q -Grams
We present a new sublinear-size index structure for finding all occurrences of a given q -gram in a text. Such a q -gram index is needed in many approximate pattern matching algorithms. All earlier q -gram index...