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Racial and Regional Disparities Surrounding In-Hospital Mortality among Patients with 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Evidence from NIS Sample in 2020
This study explores differences in COVID-19 in-hospital mortality rates by patient and geographic factors to identify at-risk populations and analyze how strained health disparities were exacerbated during the...
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Recent Update on PET/CT Radiotracers for Imaging Cerebral Glioma
Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has dramatically altered the landscape of noninvasive glioma evaluation, offering complementary insights to those gained through magnetic resonance ima...
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Combination of [18F]FDG and [18F]PSMA-1007 PET/CT predicts tumour aggressiveness at staging and biochemical failure postoperatively in patients with prostate cancer
[18F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has limitations in prostate cancer (PCa) detection owing to low glycolysis in the primary tumour. Recently, prostate-sp...
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Open AccessRacial disparity and regional variance in healthcare utilization among patients with lung cancer in US hospitals during 2016–2019
Lung cancer health disparities are related to various patient factors. This study describes regional differences in healthcare utilization and racial characteristics to identify high-risk areas. This study aim...
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Does Opioid Use Disorder Matter for Health Care Utilization Among Lung Cancer Patients? Evidence from U.S. Hospitals During 2016–2020
The number of hospitalizations due to opioid use disorders in the USA increased steadily from 62,010 in 1998–2000 to 136,240 in 2015–2016; however, no health care utilization of lung cancer patients with opioi...
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Open AccessPalliative care and healthcare utilization among metastatic breast cancer patients in U.S. Hospitals
There is a lack of research focused on understanding the different characteristics and healthcare utilization of metastatic breast cancer patients by palliative care use. This study aims to investigate trend o...
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Healthcare Big Data Analysis Using Representative National Community Health Survey of 2021: Is Income Change Due to Covid-19 Pandemic Associated with Unmet Healthcare Needs in S. Korea
This paper was to explore how income changes due to Covid-19 associated with unmet healthcare needs among Korean population. We used representative National Community Health Survey 2021, and 209,202 respondent...
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Open AccessDoes fragmented cancer care affect survival? Analysis of gastric cancer patients using national insurance claim data
We aimed to investigate the association between fragmented cancer care in the early phase after cancer diagnosis and patient outcomes using national insurance claim data.
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Healthcare Utilization of Patients with Opioid Use Disorder in US Hospitals from 2016 to 2019: Focusing on Racial and Regional Variances
There is a lack of US population-based research on healthcare utilization differences caused by opioid misuse.
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Open AccessPalliative care and healthcare utilization among deceased metastatic lung cancer patients in U.S. hospitals
The benefits of palliative care for cancer patients were well developed; however, the characteristics of receiving palliative care and the utilization patterns among lung cancer patients have not been explored...
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Open AccessAssociation of institutional transition of cancer care with mortality in elderly patients with lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study using national claim data
Although survival based outcomes of lung cancer patients have been well developed, institutional transition of cancer care, that is, when patients transfer from primary visiting hospitals to other hospitals, a...
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Hip replacement and internal fixation are major surgeries commonly performed in the hip region. Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is one of the most successful and cost-effective surgical procedures. The main indic...
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Open AccessDoes low income effects 5-year mortality of hepatocellular carcinoma patients?
In Korea, the universal health system offers coverage to all members of society. Despite this, it is unclear whether risk of death from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) varies depending on income. We evaluated t...
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SLE-associated risk factors affect DC function
Identification of function and potential pathogenic mechanisms of SLE risk genes in dendritic cells.
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Open AccessA Kelch domain-containing KLHDC7B and a long non-coding RNA ST8SIA6-AS1 act oppositely on breast cancer cell proliferation via the interferon signaling pathway
In our previous study, the Kelch domain-containing 7B (KLHDC7B) was revealed to be hypermethylated at the promoter but upregulated in breast cancer. In this study, we identified a long non-coding RNA, ST8SIA6-...
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Flexible Carbon-rich Al2O3 Interlayers for Moisture Barrier Films by a Spatially-Resolved Atomic Layer Deposition Process
In this study, we developed effective carbon-rich Al2O3 interlayers for flexible moisture barrier films. The carbon-rich Al2O3 films were deposited with excessive supply of trimethylaluminum (TMA) precursor. The ...
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Spatially-Resolved Remote Plasma Atomic Layer Deposition Process for Moisture Barrier Al2O3 Films
In this study, nanoscale-thickness Al2O3 layers for moisture barrier films were developed by a spatially resolved remote plasma atomic layer deposition process. The effect of various process parameters was invest...
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Assessment and identification of nitrogen pollution sources in the Cheongmi River with intensive livestock farming areas, Korea
This study aimed to develop methods for assessing and identifying nitrogen sources in the Cheongmi River, Korea, that has intensive livestock farming areas (ILFA) in its watershed. The assessment focused on th...
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Open AccessMicroRNA-7-5p mediates the signaling of hepatocyte growth factor to suppress oncogenes in the MCF-10A mammary epithelial cell
MicroRNA-7 (miR-7) is a non-coding RNA of 23-nucleotides that has been shown to act as a tumor suppressor in various cancers including breast cancer. Although there have been copious studies on the action mech...
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Increased cathepsin S in Prdm1−/− dendritic cells alters the TFH cell repertoire and contributes to lupus
Cathepsin S is responsible for cleaving the invariant chain Ii for the presentation of peptides by major histocompatibility complex class II on DCs. Diamond and colleagues show that the transcription factor Bl...
