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Open AccessEvaluation of buccal swabs for pharmacogenetics
A simple, non-invasive sample collection method is key for the integration of pharmacogenetics into clinical practice. The aim of this study was to gain samples for pharmacogenetic testing and evaluate the var...
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Cervical cancer screening for survivors diagnosed with cancer before age 25
The study aims to better understand Pap test utilization for cancer survivors diagnosed before age 25 in British Columbia (BC), Canada.
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MEthods of ASsessing blood pressUre: identifying thReshold and target valuEs (MeasureBP): A Review & Study Protocol
Despite progress in automated blood pressure measurement (BPM) technology, there is limited research linking hard outcomes to automated office BPM (OBPM) treatment targets and thresholds. Equivalences for auto...
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Emotional Education and Leadership in the Henriad
The Bible arguably stresses three, interrelated emotional attitudes to God. We are to fear him as our judge, love him as our benefactor, and wonder at him as our creator. Perhaps the Trinity itself was shaped ...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a survey instrument to investigate the primary care factors related to differences in cancer diagnosis between international jurisdictions
Survival rates following a diagnosis of cancer vary between countries. The International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP), a collaboration between six countries with primary care led health services, was...
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Using a Medical Thesaurus to Predict Query Difficulty
Estimating query performance is the task of predicting the quality of results returned by a search engine in response to a query. In this paper, we focus on pre-retrieval prediction methods for the medical dom...
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Open AccessCombining classifiers for robust PICO element detection
Formulating a clinical information need in terms of the four atomic parts which are Population/Problem, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome (known as PICO elements) facilitates searching for a precise answer ...
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Open AccessSicily statement on evidence-based practice
A variety of definitions of evidence-based practice (EBP) exist. However, definitions are in themselves insufficient to explain the underlying processes of EBP and to differentiate between an evidence-based proce...
