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We propose an estimator for models in which an endogenous dichotomous treatment affects a count outcome in the presence of either sample selection or endogenous participation using maximum simulated likelihood. We allow for the treatment to have an effect on the participation or the sample selection...
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PMID: 21830253
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The cultivation of tobacco dates backwards to 6000 BC. Use of tobacco for spiritual, euphoric, and medicinal purposes, and its ultimate spread to the 4 corners of the globe, lay at the heart of the current pandemic of tobacco-related disease, including lung, head and neck, and many o...
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PMID: 22046846
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Although current performance measures recommend smoking cessation counseling at the time of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines recommend pharmacotherapy as well. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence and correlate...
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PMID: 21742092
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This article reports the use of an expert panel to perform content validation of an experimental assessment process for the safety of assistive technology (AT) adopted by farmers with disabilities. The validation process was conducted by a panel of six experts experienced in the subject matter, i.e.,...
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PMID: 21919319
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We have described physical activity in the context of clustering patterns of health-promoting behaviors. Laying the groundwork for physical activity in the lifestyle is important for establishing health-promotion strategies to increase physical activity....
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PMID: 21721968
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These findings indicate that self-reported health-care provider's recommendations for lifestyle modifications are associated with people actually engaging in healthier behavior. The results reinforce the importance of health-care provider's making recommendations to promote adherence to a healthier...
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PMID: 21361822
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Speech and language delay in children is associated with increased difficulty with reading, writing, attention, and socialization. Although physicians should be alert to parental concerns and to whether children are meeting expected developmental milestones, there currently is insufficient evidence t...
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PMID: 21568252
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We sought to identify practice patterns of pediatric nephrologists for tobacco counseling, because of a high incidence of secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco use in adolescents with chronic kidney disease. Counseling was minimal for several reasons, thus increasing the risk for heart disease inhere...
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PMID: 21592511
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We conducted a cohort study of women with RA with pregnancies using health care utilization data from 2002-2008. We examined the distribution of RA drugs by therapeutic classes, including nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)/coxibs, glucocorticoids, nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumati...
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PMID: 21557526
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We carried out quasi-experimental, single group intervention study at Rawalpindi District Hospital to improve TB patient treatment adherence using a Chronic Care Model (CCM). Ninety-nine newly diagnosed TB patients at the TB Clinic, Rawalpindi District Hospital, during February-March 2009, were incl...
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PMID: 21706945
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Theorists currently believe that bereaved people undergo some transformation of self rather than returning to their original state. To advance our understanding of this process, this article presents an adaptation of Prochaska and DiClemente's transtheoretical model of change as it c...
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PMID: 21553574
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The aim of this study was to survey patient satisfaction with dental care delivered in general practice and to compare the results with those obtained five years earlier using the same questionnaire.
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PMID: 21457624
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The aim of this survey was to investigate the views of general dental practitioners (GDPs) on their perceived roles and the barriers regarding dental care of patients following head and neck radio-therapy.
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PMID: 21457625
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The aim of this project was to evaluate influence of standardised information on patient's choice of combined hormonal contraception application way.
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PMID: 21649999
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Sexual health is a vital but often neglected aspect of healthcare for people with intellectual disability. It may initially be difficult for the general practitioner to raise sexuality issues with patients with intellectual disability, but there is potential for simple interventions...
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PMID: 21597526
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We sought to determine the impact of the introduction of provider-initiated HIV-testing in TB clinics in 2005 on subsequent referrals of patients with HIV-associated TB at a community-based ART service in Cape Town....
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PMID: 21786731
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This qualitative study examined patient difficulties after allotransplantation in order to develop a continuous support system for these patients, considering the significant change in care environment following hospital discharge. Five patients were recruited for semistructured interviews. Content a...
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PMID: 21566408
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In the United Kingdom in 2006, 5,325 persons were diagnosed with oral cancer; and in 2007 it caused around 1,850 deaths. The purpose of this study was to assess the patient awareness, in a dental access centre, of a poster and leaflet campaign providing information about smoking and excess alcohol co...
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PMID: 21436799
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Vaginal atrophy, which is associated with vaginal itching, burning, dryness, irritation, and pain, is estimated to affect up to 40% of postmenopausal women. Estrogens play a key role in maintaining vaginal health; women with low serum estradiol are more likely to experience vaginal dryness, dyspareun...
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PMID: 21091878
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The present research was carried out at the School of Dentistry, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania.
To assess smoking and drinking habits as well as attitudes towards smoking cessation counselling among dental students in Tanzania....
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PMID: 21485243
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A dedicated Community Enuresis Clinic was established in 2004 in Cavan and Monaghan. The service was audited using ERIC (Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence) guidelines. There were 106 males and 47 females, giving an M: F ratio of 2.3:1. Monosymptomatic Nocturnal Enuresis (MNE)...
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PMID: 21465874
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Genital herpes simplex virus infections are widespread throughout the world and are characterized by stigma, myth, and anxiety by patients and the public but are perceived as trivial by most physicians. Surveys in the United States, Europe, Australia, and South Africa have measured the unfavorable e...
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PMID: 12353188
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We formed four retrospective diagnosis-based cohorts from a 662-bed tertiary-care medical center. Each cohort contained patients evaluated for one of four Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare process measures including Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), Congestive Heart...
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PMID: 21811572
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We evaluated the efficacy of a 6-month clinic and home-based behavioral intervention (Learning about Activity and Understanding Nutrition for Child Health; LAUNCH) to reduce obesity in preschool children ≥95th BMI percentile compared to enhanced standard of care (Pediatrician Counseling; PC). LAUN...
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PMID: 20395948
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The past decade has seen tremendous changes in the management of cleft deformities with the advent of the Smile Train project. The present study evaluates the effect of the Smile Train project on the demographics of cleft deformities.
Data collected over the past three decades were studied retrospec...
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PMID: 21200226
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Diagnosis is based on body mass index and waist circumference. The aim of treatment is to prevent and alleviate obesity comorbidities (e.g. type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, sleep apnoea and osteoarthritis) through a permanent weight reduction of at least 5%. The core element...
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PMID: 21553508
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This study aimed to evaluate the physical performance and quality of life after an extended abdominoperineal excision of the rectum and the reconstruction with a right-sided unilateral gluteus myocutaneus rotation flap in patients with rectal and anal cancer.
Nineteen patients with primary or recurr...
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PMID: 21160320
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To determine the knowledge of, use of and willingness to use emergency contraception (EC) among women in Turkey.
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PMID: 21682115
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Time constraints and lack of awareness of risk factors for future chronic disease development prevent many young adults from accessing lifestyle programs offered by local health services. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of a rural pharmacy-based multidisciplinary healthy lifestyle pil...
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PMID: 21616019
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Examine the long-term impact of a telephone-based weight management program among participants recruited from worksite settings.
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PMID: 21192748
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Miles McFall,
Andrew J Saxon,
Carol A Malte,
Bruce Chow,
Sara Bailey,
Dewleen G Baker,
Jean C Beckham,
Kathy D Boardman,
Timothy P Carmody,
Anne M Joseph,
Mark W Smith,
Mei-Chiung Shih,
Ying Lu,
Mark Holodniy,
Philip W Lavori and
CSP 519 Study Team
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Most smokers with mental illness do not receive tobacco cessation treatment.
To determine whether integrating smoking cessation treatment into mental health care for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) improves long-term smoking abstinence rates.
A randomized controlled trial of 943 s...
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PMID: 21139110
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The increased use of screening tests has led to the identification of large numbers of women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Consequently, there is an increased role for obstetrician-gynecologists in caring for infected women. Women infected with HIV are living longer, healthier lives and,...
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PMID: 21099636
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Theresa M Winhusen,
Eugene C Somoza,
Gregory S Brigham,
David S Liu,
Carla A Green,
Lirio S Covey,
Ivana T Croghan,
Lenard A Adler,
Roger D Weiss,
Jeffrey D Leimberger,
Daniel F Lewis and
Emily M Dorer
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High smoking rates in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and nicotine's amelioration of ADHD suggest that effective ADHD treatment might facilitate abstinence in smokers with ADHD. The present study evaluated if using osmotic-release oral system methylphenidate (OROS-MPH) to...
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PMID: 20492837
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Persons who inject drugs should use a new, sterile needle and syringe for each injection. Syringe exchange programs (SEPs) provide free sterile syringes and collect used syringes from injection-drug users (IDUs) to reduce transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including human immunodeficiency virus (...
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PMID: 21085091
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We talked to about 120 patients and relatives every year in more than 10000 psychotherapeutic talks. 70 of our patients were HIV-infected. For about half of them we took care until they died on AIDS or of liver-disease. The other 50 patients (HIV-negative) were also distressed enormously. At the beg...
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PMID: 21042670
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Although lifestyle modification is the key treatment of metabolic syndrome (MetS), clinical data on the dynamical relationship between metabolic state and MetS has been limited. This study investigated the mutual correlations between demographic and biochemical variables, and the metabolic state bas...
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PMID: 20834187
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We sought to determine temporal trends in clinician attitudes toward screening for obesity using body mass index (BMI) and other modalities, before and after introduction of an American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) obesity screening toolkit.
We performed 3 cross-sectional attitudinal surveys...
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PMID: 21066933
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Our aim was to evaluate the contraceptive advice line using standards developed at its inception. A retrospective audit of the queries received by the contraceptive advice line between January and September 2009 was conducted.
Sixty-seven queries were received from 30 GPs, nine from practice nurses...
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PMID: 21067638
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We compared data on age, sex, HIV status and CD4 counts collected between August and December 2008 from a mobile testing service (known as the Tutu Tester), a primary health care clinic, and a district hospital.
A total of 3 820 individuals were tested: 2 499 at the mobile, 657 at the clinic, and 66...
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PMID: 21080998
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