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Lifetime Risk of Atrial Fibrillation by Race and Socioeconomic Status
Background: Limited information exists on the lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) in African Americans and by socioeconomic status. Methods: We studied 15 343 participants...
On "Quality of Life"
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Effect of Cancer on Quality of Life
Perspectives on Quality of Life and the Global Cancer Problem. Measuring Functioning, Well-Being, and Other Generic Health Concepts. Measuring Effects of Cancer on Quality of Li...
Decision-Making Studies in Patient Management
Abstract Decision analysis provides a method to help the physician choose a course of action consistent with his personal judgments, to relate his preferences to costs, and to a...
Phase II Study of an Outpatient Palliative Care Intervention in Patients With Metastatic Cancer
Purpose Although there is increasing advocacy for timely symptom control in patients with cancer, few studies have assessed outpatient palliative care clinics. This study assess...
Food and Drug Administration requirements for approval of new anticancer drugs.
For approval of new drugs, the law requires a minimum of two independent well-controlled studies for each indication. The preferred study design is prospective, randomized, and ...
Environmental Locus of Control, Sympathy, and Proenvironmental Behavior
Geller hypothesized a mediational model of environmentally responsible behavior. Specifically, Geller proposed that “actively caring,” a component of altruism, mediated the rela...
Using the EuroQoI 5-D in the Catalan general population: feasibility and construct validity.
Spanish and Catalan versions of the EuroQoi 5-D (EQ-5D) were included in the Catalan Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and administered to a randomly selected cross-section of 12,2...
Characterization of gene expression of CD34+ cells from normal and myelodysplastic bone marrow
Gene patterns of expression in purified CD34+ bone marrow cells from 7 patients with low-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and 4 patients with high-risk MDS were compared with...