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Medicine & Public Health
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Open AccessFat mass: a novel digital biomarker for remote monitoring that may indicate risk for malnutrition and new complications in decompensated cirrhosis
Cirrhosis is associated with sarcopaenia and fat wasting, which drive decompensation and mortality. Currently, nutritional status, through body composition assessment, is not routinely monitored in outpatients...
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Open AccessGRIPP2 reporting checklists: tools to improve reporting of patient and public involvement in research
While the patient and public involvement (PPI) evidence base has expanded over the past decade, the quality of reporting within papers is often inconsistent, limiting our understanding of how it works, in what...
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Temporal latency between pelvic floor trauma and presentation for prolapse surgery: a retrospective observational study
Levator avulsion is an etiological factor for female pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and generally occurs during a first vaginal birth. However, most women with POP present decades later. This study aimed to estim...
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Reliability of tonosafe disposable tonometer prisms: clinical implications from the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System Quality Assurance Study
Given the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System's recent introduction of single-use Tonosafe disposable tonometer prisms as an alternative to Goldmann applanation tonometers (GATs), this study had two aims...
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Reduced-intensity conditioning for severe aplasia using fludarabine and CY followed by infusion of ex vivo T-cell-depleted grafts leads to excellent engraftment and absence of GVHD
We studied the outcome of individuals with aplastic anaemia (AA) who received reduced-intensity conditioning followed by the infusion of stem cell grafts that had been T-cell depleted ex vivo with alemtuzumab. Co...
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Myeloablative conditioning is well tolerated by older patients receiving T-cell-depleted grafts
Older age has been linked to increased transplant-related mortality from graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). Depletion of T cells from stem cell grafts seems to protect from complications of GvHD particularly in...
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Open AccessIs preoperative core biopsy accurate in determining the hormone receptor status in women with invasive breast cancer?
The objective of this study was to determine the concordance rate between core needle biopsy (CNB) and surgical excision of invasive breast cancer regarding the oestrogen receptor (ER) and Progesterone recepto...
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Überblick über familiendiagnostische Fragebogeninventare
In diesem Kapitel werden Fragebogeninventare als Werkzeuge in der Familiendiagnostik vorgestellt. Dabei werden drei verschiedene Gruppen von Verfahren unterschieden. Es folgt eine ausführliche Besprechung von ...
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Prozessmodelle und Ratingskalen
Drei theoretische Modelle ermöglichen die Erfassung und Beschreibung von günstigen und weniger günstigen Mustern von Familienbeziehungen und -strukturen durch externe Beobachter und durch die Selbstberichte de...
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CD52 antibodies for prevention of graft-versus-host disease and graft rejection following transplantation of allogeneic peripheral blood stem cells
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, but can be avoided by removing T lymphocytes from the donor bone marrow. However, T ce...
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Surfactant Protein A in Fetal Rats With Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
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Clara Cell Protein (Cc16) in Amniotic Fluid, A Marker of Fetal Lung. Maturation or Growth?
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Prozeßmodelle und Ratingskalen
Drei theoretische Modelle ermöglichen die Erfassung und Beschreibung von günstigen und weniger günstigen Mustern von Familienbeziehungen und -strukturen durch externe Beobachter und durch die Selbstberichte de...
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Die familiendiagnostischen Fragebogeninventare
In diesem Kapitel werden Fragebogeninventare als Werkzeuge in der Familiendiagnostik vorgestellt. Dabei werden drei verschiedene Gruppen von Verfahren unterschieden. Es folgt eine ausführliche Besprechung von ...
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Das „Circumplex model“ und der FACES
Das „Circumplex model“ wurde in seiner ursprünglichen Form von Olson et al. (1979) mit der Absicht entwickelt, eine Brücke zwischen 2 Gebieten zu errichten, die sich zuvor eher unverbunden gegenüberstanden: Fa...
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Zum Verhältnis von Dyadischer und Systemischer Forschung
Die bislang existierende Kluft zwischen systemtheoretischer Betrachtung eines Familiensystems und der empirischen Erfassung familiärer Transaktionen wirft viele theoretische und methodische Fragen auf. Einige ...
