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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "I wish I had seen this test result earlier!": Dissatisfaction with test result management systems in primary care. 
  • 2017 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and their major subgroups. 
  • A 2-year follow-up of social phobia. Status after a brief medication trial. 
  • A Bayesian method for evaluating medical test operating characteristics when some patients' conditions fail to be diagnosed by the reference standard. 
  • A Bayesian method for synthesizing evidence. The Confidence Profile Method. 
  • A claims database analysis of persistence with alendronate therapy and fracture risk in post-menopausal women with osteoporosis. 
  • A clinical decision and economic analysis model of cancer pain management. 
  • A comparison of 399 open and 568 laparoscopic gastric bypasses performed during a 4-year period. 
  • A comparison of clinical outcomes between Canadian and American patients after nonurgent coronary stenting. 
  • A comparison of directional atherectomy with coronary angioplasty in patients with coronary artery disease. The CAVEAT Study Group. 
  • A comparison of lithium and T(3) augmentation following two failed medication treatments for depression: a STAR*D report. 
  • A comparison of moment-based and probability-based criteria for assessment of follow-on biologics. 
  • A design alternative for two-stage, phase II, multicenter cancer clinical trials. 
  • A flexible parametric model for combining current status and age at first diagnosis data. 
  • A general formulation for a one-sided group sequential design. 
  • A generalized estimating equation approach for modeling random length binary vector data. 
  • A global logrank test for adaptive treatment strategies based on observational studies. 
  • A longitudinal study of functional change and mortality in the United States. 
  • A mathematical approach to medical decisions: application of Bayes' rule to a mixture of continuous and discrete clinical variables. 
  • A multi-institutional evaluation of factors predictive of toxicity and efficacy of bevacizumab for recurrent ovarian cancer. 
  • A national survey of spinal cord stimulation trial-to-permanent conversion rates. 
  • A one-year comparison of vagus nerve stimulation with treatment as usual for treatment-resistant depression. 
  • A predictive model for relapse in high-risk primary breast cancer patients treated with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem-cell transplant. 
  • A probability-based multi-cycle sorting method for 4D-MRI: A simulation study. 
  • A prognostic model for patients with end-stage liver disease. 
  • A qualitative review of issues arising in the use of psycho-stimulant medications in patients with ADHD and co-morbid substance use disorders. 
  • A quantitative formulation of biology's first law. 
  • A reappraisal of the results of stopping therapy in childhood leukemia. 
  • A retrospective analysis of the long-term effect of splenectomy on late infections, graft-versus-host disease, relapse, and survival after allogeneic marrow transplantation for chronic myelogenous leukemia. 
  • A risk score to predict bleeding in patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • A simple method for computing exact probabilities of mutation numbers. 
  • A stochastic compartment model of stomach cancer with correlated waiting time distributions. 
  • A stochastic compartment model representation of chronic disease dependence: techniques for evaluating parameters of partially unobserved age inhomogeneous stochastic processes. 
  • A systematic study of the class imbalance problem in convolutional neural networks. 
  • A time-dependent statistical model which relates current clinical status to prognosis: application to advanced prostatic cancer. 
  • A unifying framework for interpreting and predicting mutualistic systems. 
  • A variance components approach to categorical data models with heterogeneous cell populations: analysis of spatial gradients in lung cancer mortality rates in North Carolina counties. 
  • A wholly empirical explanation of perceived motion. 
  • Absence of a correlation of androgen receptor gene CAG repeat length and prostate cancer risk in an African-American population. 
  • Absence of sex bias in the referral of patients for cardiac catheterization. 
  • Absolute measurements of water content using magnetic resonance imaging: preliminary findings in an in vivo focal ischemic rat model. 
  • Accuracy of clinicians and models for estimating the probability that a pulmonary nodule is malignant. 
  • Acupuncture accelerates delayed gastrointestinal transit after abdominal surgery in conscious rats. 
  • Addition of right-sided and posterior precordial leads during stress testing. 
  • Adjusting for selection bias due to missing data in electronic health records-based research. 
  • Age and impaired subjective support. Predictors of depressive symptoms at one-year follow-up. 
  • Age moderates the short-term effects of transdermal 17beta-estradiol on endothelium-dependent vascular function in postmenopausal women. 
  • Age-related vulnerabilities of older adults with colon adenomas: evidence from Project Prevent. 
  • Age-specific differences in oncogenic pathway dysregulation and anthracycline sensitivity in patients with acute myeloid leukemia. 
  • Age-specific prevalence and years of healthy life in a system with three health states. 
  • Alcohol consumption and changes in blood pressure among African Americans. The Pitt County Study. 
  • Alcohol-Impaired Driving and Perceived Risks of Legal Consequences. 
  • Allele frequency spectra in structured populations: Novel-allele probabilities under the labelled coalescent. 
  • Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation as therapy for primary induction failure for patients with acute leukemia. 
  • Allogeneic marrow transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission using fractionated total body irradiation. 
  • Allogeneic marrow transplantation for acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia in relapse using fractionated total body irradiation. 
  • Allogeneic marrow transplantation for patients with acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia in second remission. 
  • Allogeneic marrow transplantation in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in the chronic phase: a randomized trial of two irradiation regimens. 
  • Alternative medicine research in clinical practice: a US national survey. 
  • Alternative models of the stress buffering hypothesis. 
  • Amiodarone use after acute myocardial infarction complicated by heart failure and/or left ventricular dysfunction may be associated with excess mortality. 
  • An adapted F-test for homogeneity of variability in follow-on biological products. 
  • An analysis of the uncertainty and bias in DCE-MRI measurements using the spoiled gradient-recalled echo pulse sequence. 
  • An attempt to reverse performance deficits associated with depression and experimentally induced helplessness. 
  • An economic analysis of external hip protector use in ambulatory nursing facility residents. 
  • An empirical explanation of the cornsweet effect. 
  • An empirical explanation of the speed-distance effect. 
  • An evaluation of factors influencing Bayesian learning systems. 
  • An introduction to a Bayesian method for meta-analysis: The confidence profile method. 
  • Analysis of colorectal cancer screening regimens. 
  • Analysis of tumor characteristics and survival in liver transplant recipients with incidentally diagnosed hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • Anatomic distribution of the culprit lesion in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: findings from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Androgen receptor mutations in androgen-independent prostate cancer: Cancer and Leukemia Group B Study 9663. 
  • Animal-borne imaging reveals novel insights into the foraging behaviors and Diel activity of a large-bodied apex predator, the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). 
  • Annual direct and indirect health care costs of chronic idiopathic urticaria: a cost analysis of 50 nonimmunosuppressed patients. 
  • Antecedents of hospital ownership conversions, mergers, and closures. 
  • Antidiabetic therapies affect risk of pancreatic cancer. 
  • Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Application and accuracy of molecular phylogenies. 
  • Application of Edwards' statistical mechanics to high-dimensional jammed sphere packings. 
  • Applying fault tree analysis to the prevention of wrong-site surgery. 
  • Are fluoxetine plasma levels related to outcome in obsessive-compulsive disorder? 
  • Arterial compliance in adolescents and young adults receiving chronic hemodialysis. 
  • Artificial neural networks improve the accuracy of cancer survival prediction. 
  • Assessing agreement with relative area under the coverage probability curve. 
  • Assessing observer agreement in studies involving replicated binary observations. 
  • Assessing whether there is a cancer premium for the value of a statistical life. 
  • Assessment of quality of life in outpatients with advanced cancer: the accuracy of clinician estimations and the relevance of spiritual well-being--a Hoosier Oncology Group Study. 
  • Association Between Patient Characteristics and Treatment Procedure Among Patients With Uterine Leiomyomas. 
  • Association between DNA damage response and repair genes and risk of invasive serous ovarian cancer. 
  • Association between body mass index and chronic kidney disease in men and women: population-based study of Malay adults in Singapore. 
  • Association of Resting Heart Rate With Blood Pressure and Incident Hypertension Over 30 Years in Black and White Adults: The CARDIA Study. 
  • Association of polymorphisms in the apolipoprotein E region with susceptibility to and progression of multiple sclerosis. 
  • Atherosclerotic risk genotypes and recurrent coronary events after myocardial infarction. 
  • Attention and target selection for smooth pursuit eye movements. 
  • Attention sharpens the distinction between expected and unexpected percepts in the visual brain. 
  • Autologous marrow transplantation for patients with acute myeloid leukemia in untreated first relapse or in second complete remission. 
  • Autosomal admixture levels are informative about sex bias in admixed populations. 
  • BRCAPRO validation, sensitivity of genetic testing of BRCA1/BRCA2, and prevalence of other breast cancer susceptibility genes. 
  • Bandwidth-induced errors in parameters used for automated activation time determination during computerized intraoperative cardiac mapping: theoretical limits. 
  • Barriers to influenza immunization in a low-income urban population. 
  • Battering victimization among a probability-based sample of men who have sex with men. 
  • BayFish: Bayesian inference of transcription dynamics from population snapshots of single-molecule RNA FISH in single cells. 
  • Bayesian analysis of mutational spectra. 
  • Bayesian analysis of proportional hazards models built from monotone functions. 
  • Bayesian inference for prevalence in longitudinal two-phase studies. 
  • Bayesian inferences on predictors of conception probabilities. 
  • Bayesian restoration of chest radiographs. Scatter compensation with improved signal-to-noise ratio. 
  • Bayesian selection of predictors of conception probabilities across the menstrual cycle. 
  • Bayesian variable selection for latent class models. 
  • Bedside tool for predicting the risk of postoperative dialysis in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Behavioral observations at age 3 years predict adult psychiatric disorders. Longitudinal evidence from a birth cohort. 
  • Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees. 
  • Between automatic and control processes: How relationships between problem elements interact to facilitate or impede insight. 
  • Bevacizumab in combination with fluorouracil and leucovorin: an active regimen for first-line metastatic colorectal cancer. 
  • Biomarker analysis by fluorokine multianalyte profiling distinguishes patients requiring intervention from patients with long-term quiescent coronary artery disease: a potential approach to identify atherosclerotic disease progression. 
  • Birth order, delivery route, and concordance in the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 from mothers to twins. International Registry of HIV-Exposed Twins. 
  • Blood and body fluid exposure risks among health care workers: results from the Duke Health and Safety Surveillance System. 
  • Brain drain or OE? Characteristics of young New Zealanders who leave. 
  • Brain regions differentially involved in remembering what and when: a PET study. 
  • Breakfast eating and weight change in a 5-year prospective analysis of adolescents: Project EAT (Eating Among Teens). 
  • Breeding birds on small islands: island biogeography or optimal foraging? 
  • Building Statistical Models to Analyze Species Distributions 
  • Building a high-resolution T2-weighted MR-based probabilistic model of tumor occurrence in the prostate. 
  • C1-esterase inhibitor and a novel peptide inhibitor improve contractile function in reperfused skeletal muscle. 
  • CT metrics of airway disease and emphysema in severe COPD. 
  • Cardiac surgery in infants with low birth weight is associated with increased mortality: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Database. 
  • Cardiovascular responses to an active coping challenge as predictors of blood pressure patterns 10 to 15 years later. 
  • Carotid-wall intima-media thickness and cardiovascular events. 
  • Caspase 8 is absent or low in many ex vivo gliomas. 
  • Causal structure and hierarchies of models. 
  • Cervical mucus secretions on the day of intercourse: an accurate marker of highly fertile days. 
  • Changes with age in the level and duration of fertility in the menstrual cycle. 
  • Changing preferences for survival after hospitalization with advanced heart failure. 
  • Characteristics associated with older adolescents who have a television in their bedrooms. 
  • Characteristics associated with swallowing changes after concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer. 
  • Chemical denervation with botulinum neurotoxin a improves the surgical manipulation of the muscle-tendon unit: an experimental study in an animal model. 
  • Chemography of natural product space. 
  • Choice of Trial of Labor after Cesarean and Association with Likelihood of Success. 
  • Cigarette smoking and hemagglutination inhibition response to influenza after natural disease and immunization. 
  • Classification of civilian craniocerebral gunshot wounds: a multivariate analysis predictive of mortality. 
  • Clinical and immunopathologic effects of swallowed fluticasone for eosinophilic esophagitis. 
  • Clinical and regulatory landscape for cardiogenic shock: A report from the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium ThinkTank on cardiogenic shock. 
  • Clinical correlates and course of thrombocytopenia during percutaneous coronary intervention in the era of abciximab platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa blockade. 
  • Clinical evaluation for sinusitis. Making the diagnosis by history and physical examination. 
  • Clinical predictors of bloodstream infections and mortality in hospitalized Malawian children. 
  • Clinical predictors of recurrence in depression. 
  • College smokers' estimates of their probabilities of remaining a smoker in the near future. 
  • Combining multiple models to generate consensus: application to radiation-induced pneumonitis prediction. 
  • Comparison of predictions based on observational data with the results of randomized controlled clinical trials of coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Comparison of time domain and frequency domain variables from the signal-averaged electrocardiogram: a multivariable analysis. 
  • Comparison of treatment techniques for conformal radiotherapy of the prostate using dose-volume histograms and normal tissue complication probabilities. 
  • Comparison of two depression measures for predicting stroke outcomes. 
  • Comparison of upper limit of vulnerability and defibrillation probability of success curves using a nonthoracotomy lead system. 
  • Computation of steady-state probability distributions in stochastic models of cellular networks. 
  • Considerations for the implementation of target volume protocols in radiation therapy: in regard to Craig et al., IJROBP 2001;49:241-250. 
  • Contextual predictors of mental health service use among children open to child welfare. 
  • Continuous-time probabilistic models for longitudinal electronic health records. 
  • Control for confounding in case-control studies using the stratification score, a retrospective balancing score. 
  • Controlled comparison of electrophysiological sleep in families of probands with unipolar depression. 
  • Convergence of the maximum likelihood reconstruction algorithm for emission computed tomography. 
  • Cord blood stem cells. 
  • Coronary artery bypass graft failure after on-pump and off-pump coronary artery bypass: findings from PREVENT IV. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of alternative management strategies for patients with solitary pulmonary nodules. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of botulinum toxin a versus anticholinergic medications for idiopathic urge incontinence. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of pegfilgrastim versus 6-day filgrastim primary prophylaxis in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma receiving CHOP-21 in United States. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of primary versus secondary prophylaxis with pegfilgrastim in women with early-stage breast cancer receiving chemotherapy. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of recombinant human activated protein C and the influence of severity of illness in the treatment of patients with severe sepsis. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of screening for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis C. 
  • Criteria for dose-finding in two-stage seamless adaptive design. 
  • Culprit-only or multivessel revascularization in patients with acute coronary syndromes: an American College of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Database Registry report. 
  • De novo mutations in epileptic encephalopathies. 
  • Decision making in the face of uncertainty: the case of carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Decisions under uncertainty: probabilistic context influences activation of prefrontal and parietal cortices. 
  • Deep brain stimulation reduces neuronal entropy in the MPTP-primate model of Parkinson's disease. 
  • Defining wound microbial flora: molecular microbiology opening new horizons. 
  • Depression and major outcomes in older patients with heart failure. 
  • Depression in medically ill hospitalized older adults: prevalence, characteristics, and course of symptoms according to six diagnostic schemes. 
  • Deriving injury risk curves using survival analysis from biomechanical experiments. 
  • Design and analysis of biomarker-integrated clinical trials with adaptive threshold detection and flexible patient enrichment. 
  • Determinants and consequences of retirement among men of different races and economic levels. 
  • Development and validation of a simple model to predict severe coronary artery disease after myocardial infarction: potential impact on cardiac catheterization use in the United States and Canada. 
  • Diagnosing sinusitis. 
  • Diet- and blood pressure-related knowledge, attitudes, and hypertension prevalence among African Americans: the KDBP Study. Knowledge of Diet and Blood Pressure. 
  • Differences in baseline characteristics and in-hospital outcomes in patients with or without prior stroke undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Differentiation of skin incision and laparoscopic trocar insertion via quantifying transient bradycardia measured by electrocardiogram. 
  • Do Largest Basal Tumor Diameter and the American Joint Committee on Cancer's Cancer Staging Influence Prognostication by Gene Expression Profiling in Choroidal Melanoma. 
  • Do Ultrasound Patterns and Clinical Parameters Inform the Probability of Thyroid Cancer Predicted by Molecular Testing in Nodules with Indeterminate Cytology? 
  • Do nutrition indicators predict death in elderly Canadians with cognitive impairment? 
  • Do seniors understand their risk of moving to a nursing home? 
  • Do the investigative sites that take part in a positive clinical trial translate that evidence into practice? 
  • Does This Patient With Chest Pain Have Acute Coronary Syndrome?: The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review. 
  • Does an immunochromatographic D-dimer exclude acute lower limb deep venous thrombosis? 
  • Does antidepressant therapy improve cognition in elderly depressed patients? 
  • Does eptifibatide confer a greater benefit to patients with unstable angina than with non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction? Insights from the PURSUIT Trial. 
  • Does pretreatment insomnia or anxiety predict acute response to bupropion SR? 
  • Does this patient have pulmonary embolism? 
  • Doing all they can: physicians who deny medical futility. 
  • Donor hepatic function: a factor in postreperfusion syndrome. 
  • Dose-dependent number of implants and implications in developmental toxicity. 
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ in BRCA mutation carriers. 
  • Dynamic basis for dG•dT misincorporation via tautomerization and ionization. 
  • Dynamics of the firing probability of noisy integrate-and-fire neurons. 
  • ERCP-related perforations: risk factors and management. 
  • Effect of Intrawound Vancomycin Powder in Operatively Treated High-risk Tibia Fractures: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of WHO newborn care training on neonatal mortality by education. 
  • Effect of anticipated performance on the attributions of causality to self and others. 
  • Effect of children’s perceived rejection on physical aggression 
  • Effect of esthetic outcome after breast-conserving surgery on psychosocial functioning and quality of life. 
  • Effect of framing as gain versus loss on understanding and hypothetical treatment choices: survival and mortality curves. 
  • Effect of prior probability quality on biased time-delay estimation. 
  • Effect of recombinant human growth hormone on exercise capacity in patients with HIV-associated wasting on HAART. 
  • Effective spread and timecourse of neural inactivation caused by lidocaine injection in monkey cerebral cortex. 
  • Effectiveness of Glycerol Mono-oleate as a Biosealant. 
  • Effects of FOXO genotypes on longevity: a biodemographic analysis. 
  • Effects of a telephone-based psychosocial intervention for patients awaiting lung transplantation. 
  • Effects of radiotherapy and of differences in the extent of surgery for early breast cancer on local recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomised trials. 
  • Effects of sexual intercourse patterns in time to pregnancy studies. 
  • Effects of spinal manipulation on trunk proprioception in subjects with chronic low back pain during symptom remission. 
  • Effects of the dietary approaches to stop hypertension diet, exercise, and caloric restriction on neurocognition in overweight adults with high blood pressure. 
  • Effects of unfractionated heparin and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonists versus bivalirdin on myeloperoxidase release from neutrophils. 
  • Efficacy and safety of two unfractionated heparin dosing strategies with tenecteplase in acute myocardial infarction (results from Assessment of the Safety and Efficacy of a New Thrombolytic Regimens 2 and 3). 
  • Efficacy of alendronate in adults with cystic fibrosis with low bone density. 
  • Efficient estimation of contact probabilities from inter-bead distance distributions in simulated polymer chains. 
  • Elective primary cesarean delivery: attitudes of urogynecology and maternal-fetal medicine specialists. 
  • Elevated uric acid levels predict allograft vasculopathy in cardiac transplant recipients. 
  • Eliciting benefit-risk preferences and probability-weighted utility using choice-format conjoint analysis. 
  • Emergence of endocarditis due to group D streptococci: findings derived from the merged database of the International Collaboration on Endocarditis. 
  • Endothelial microparticle levels are similar in acute ischemic stroke and stroke mimics due to activation and not apoptosis/necrosis. 
  • Estimating hidden morbidity via its effect on mortality and disability. 
  • Estimating the likelihood of significant coronary artery disease. 
  • Estimating the probability and level of ambulatory mental health services use. 
  • Estimating the probability of polyreactive antibodies 4E10 and 2F5 disabling a gp41 trimer after T cell-HIV adhesion. 
  • Ethnic differences in use of inpatient mental health services by blacks, whites, and Hispanics in a national insured population. 
  • Evaluation of individual and ensemble probabilistic forecasts of COVID-19 mortality in the United States. 
  • Evaluation of the modified asthma predictive index in high-risk preschool children. 
  • Evaluation of the quality of care in congenital heart surgery: contribution of the Aristotle complexity score. 
  • Evaluation of the reproducibility of lung motion probability distribution function (PDF) using dynamic MRI. 
  • Evidence-based medicine in otolaryngology Part 4: everyday probabilities--nonbinary diagnostic tests. 
  • Evidence-based medicine in otolaryngology, Part 3: everyday probabilities: diagnostic tests with binary results. 
  • Evidence-based risk communication: a systematic review. 
  • Examining dental expenditure and dental insurance accounting for probability of incurring expenses. 
  • Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer's dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study. 
  • Experiential Sampling in the Study of Multiple Personality Disorder 
  • Experimental statistics for biological sciences. 
  • Expression microarray identifies novel markers of free flap failure in a rat model. 
  • Extrapolating weak selection in evolutionary games. 
  • Eye movement impairment and schizotypal psychopathology. 
  • Factors associated with survival in pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation--a single-center experience. 
  • Factors predicting prostatic biopsy Gleason sum under grading. 
  • Fecal incontinence in US adults: epidemiology and risk factors. 
  • Femur fractures and lung complications: a prospective randomized study of reaming. 
  • Fetal gene transfer with lentiviral vectors: long-term in vivo follow-up evaluation in a rat model. 
  • Fifteen-year survival and osteolysis associated with a modular posterior stabilized knee replacement. A concise follow-up of a previous report. 
  • Financial comparative analysis of minimally invasive surgery to open surgery for localized prostate cancer: a single-institution experience. 
  • First steps in analysing NHS waiting times: avoiding the 'stationary and closed population' fallacy. 
  • Flow cytometric determination of ploidy in prostatic adenocarcinoma: a comparison with seminal vesicle involvement and histopathological grading as a predictor of clinical recurrence. 
  • Forget all that nonsense: The role of meaning during the forgetting of recollective and familiarity-based memories. 
  • Frequency and prognostic significance of preoperatively detected enlarged regional lymph nodes in patients with pathological stage I non-small cell lung cancer following resection. 
  • Frequency estimator for assessing of follow-on biologics. 
  • Frequency of breast cancer attributable to BRCA1 in a population-based series of American women. 
  • Function in elderly cancer survivors depends on comorbidities. 
  • Functional Relevance of Improbable Antibody Mutations for HIV Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Development. 
  • Functional organ preservation with definitive chemoradiotherapy for T4 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. 
  • Gallbladder pathology in morbid obesity. 
  • Gamma radiation sensitivity and risk of malignant and benign salivary gland tumors: a pilot case-control analysis. 
  • Gastroschisis: the effect of labor and ruptured membranes on neonatal outcome. 
  • Gaze-dependent evidence accumulation predicts multi-alternative risky choice behaviour. 
  • Gender and age interact to affect early outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Gene delivery to aortocoronary saphenous vein grafts in a large animal model of intimal hyperplasia. 
  • Glaucoma-Related Adverse Events in the First 5 Years After Unilateral Cataract Removal in the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study. 
  • Grade of Membership generalizations and aging research. 
  • Graph fission in an evolving voter model. 
  • Growth, survival and viral load in symptomatic childhood human immunodeficiency virus infection. 
  • Guideline adjudicated fibrinolytic failure: incidence, findings, and management in a contemporary clinical trial. 
  • Gunshot wounds: bullet caliber is increasing, 1998-2003. 
  • HIV quasispecies and resampling. 
  • HIV susceptibility among Hispanic women in south Florida. 
  • HSPB1 gene polymorphisms predict risk of mortality for US patients after radio(chemo)therapy for non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Haplotypes of two variants in p16 (CDKN2/MTS-1/INK4a) exon 3 and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a case-control study. 
  • Have the oldest old adults ever been frail in the past? A hypothesis that explains modern trends in survival. 
  • Heat loss prevention for preterm infants in the delivery room. 
  • Heat shock changes the heterogeneity distribution in populations of Caenorhabditis elegans: does it tell us anything about the biological mechanism of stress response? 
  • Helping patients decide: ten steps to better risk communication. 
  • Hematopoietic cell transplantation with cord blood for cure of HIV infections. 
  • Heterogeneity and probabilistic binding contributions to receptor-mediated cell detachment kinetics. 
  • High-dose aprotinin effectively reduces blood loss during on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting with bivalirudin anticoagulation. 
  • Home surveillance program prevents interstage mortality after the Norwood procedure. 
  • Human papillomavirus in early laryngeal carcinoma. 
  • Hypothesis testing for neural cell growth experiments using a hybrid branching process model. 
  • Identification of Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, and Amerindians from palatal dimensions. 
  • Identifying Patterns of Multimorbidity in Older Americans: Application of Latent Class Analysis. 
  • Immunosuppressive therapy of aplastic anemia: results of a prospective, randomized trial of antithymocyte globulin (ATG), methylprednisolone, and oxymetholone to ATG, very high-dose methylprednisolone, and oxymetholone. 
  • Impact of clopidogrel in patients with acute coronary syndromes requiring coronary artery bypass surgery: a multicenter analysis. 
  • Impact of gender and antithrombin strategy on early and late clinical outcomes in patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes (from the ACUITY trial). 
  • Impact of immortal person-time and time scale in comparative effectiveness research for medical devices: a case for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Impact of outpatient commitment on victimization of people with severe mental illness. 
  • Impact of the fast track prevention program on health services use by conduct-problem youth. 
  • Impaired endothelial function in coronary heart disease patients with depressive symptomatology. 
  • Implementation of antibiotic rotation protocol improves antibiotic susceptibility profile in a surgical intensive care unit. 
  • Importance of pretest probability score and D-dimer assay before sonography for lower limb deep venous thrombosis. 
  • Improved noninvasive diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism with optimally selected clinical and chest radiographic findings. 
  • Improvement and International Validation of the Predictive Probability of the Patient Demographics, Radiographic Index, and Surgical Invasiveness for Mechanical Failure (PRISM) Model for Preventive Procedures in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Improving the quantitative accuracy of optical-emission computed tomography by incorporating an attenuation correction: application to HIF1 imaging. 
  • Improving water quality assessments through a hierarchical Bayesian analysis of variability. 
  • Incidence and implications of altered semen quality on family planning. 
  • Incidence and predictors of all and preventable adverse drug reactions in frail elderly persons after hospital stay. 
  • Incidence and risk factors for surgical intervention after uterine artery embolization. 
  • Incidental findings on brain magnetic resonance imaging of children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Incoherent phylogeographic inference. 
  • Increasing trends in incidence of overweight and obesity over 5 decades. 
  • Incremental value of the exercise test for diagnosing the presence or absence of coronary artery disease. 
  • Individual differences in nonverbal number discrimination correlate with event-related potentials and measures of probabilistic reasoning. 
  • Inductive determination of allele frequency spectrum probabilities in structured populations. 
  • Inference on treatment effects from a randomized clinical trial in the presence of premature treatment discontinuation: the SYNERGY trial. 
  • Influence of comorbid alcohol and psychiatric disorders on utilization of mental health services in the National Comorbidity Survey. 
  • Influence of diabetes mellitus on clinical outcomes across the spectrum of acute coronary syndromes. Findings from the GUSTO-IIb study. GUSTO IIb Investigators. 
  • Influence of life stress on depression: moderation by a polymorphism in the 5-HTT gene. 
  • Information processing for decision making in depressed women. A study of subjective expected utilities. 
  • Informative missingness in genetic association studies: case-parent designs. 
  • Informative structure priors: joint learning of dynamic regulatory networks from multiple types of data. 
  • Inhibition of Clostridium difficile toxin A-induced colitis in rats by APAZA. 
  • Innate immunity influences long-term outcomes after human lung transplant. 
  • Inpatient hospital care for psoriasis: a vanishing practice in the United States. 
  • Interim analysis of binary outcome data in clinical trials: a comparison of five estimators. 
  • Intermediate, indeterminate, and uninterpretable diagnostic test results. 
  • Interval mapping of viability loci causing heterosis in Arabidopsis. 
  • Intervals for posttest probabilities: a comparison of 5 methods. 
  • Intrachromosomal gene conversion and the maintenance of sequence homogeneity among repeated genes. 
  • Intracranial hemorrhage risk and new thrombolytic therapies in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Intramyocardial and intracoronary basic fibroblast growth factor in porcine hibernating myocardium: a comparative study. 
  • Investigating the impact of observation errors on the statistical performance of network-based diffusion analysis. 
  • Involuntary outpatient commitment and homelessness in persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Is Food Irrigated with Oilfield-Produced Water in the California Central Valley Safe to Eat? A Probabilistic Human Health Risk Assessment Evaluating Trace Metals Exposure. 
  • Is Major Depression Linked to Alcohol-Impaired Driving? 
  • Is it possible to optimize a radiotherapy treatment plan? 
  • Kinetics of hepatitis C virus reinfection after liver transplantation. 
  • LI-RADS 2017: An update. 
  • Laparoscopic esophagomyotomy for achalasia: does anterior hemifundoplication affect clinical outcome? 
  • Leukemia in twins. 
  • Likelihood of conception with a single act of intercourse: providing benchmark rates for assessment of post-coital contraceptives. 
  • Likelihood ratios with confidence: sample size estimation for diagnostic test studies. 
  • Limitations of ejection fraction for prediction of sudden death risk in patients with coronary artery disease: lessons from the MUSTT study. 
  • Linkage of a locus for autosomal dominant familial spastic paraplegia to chromosome 2p markers. 
  • Linked Sensitivity Analysis, Calibration, and Uncertainty Analysis Using a System Dynamics Model for Stroke Comparative Effectiveness Research. 
  • Links from complex spikes to local plasticity and motor learning in the cerebellum of awake-behaving monkeys. 
  • Local frequency dependence and global coexistence. 
  • Localization of a gene (CMT2A) for autosomal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 to chromosome 1p and evidence of genetic heterogeneity. 
  • Long-term outcome of cyclocryotherapy for refractory pediatric glaucoma. 
  • Longitudinal analysis of the relationship between regular eye examinations and changes in visual and functional status. 
  • Longitudinal rates of cataract surgery. 
  • Low-dose chemotherapy for Epstein-Barr virus-positive post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disease in children after solid organ transplantation. 
  • Low-risk acute heart failure patients: external validation of the Society of Chest Pain Center's recommendations. 
  • Lung scan interpretation: effect of different observers and different criteria. 
  • Lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy in the patient with breast cancer. 
  • MADIT-II: clinical implications. 
  • Major depressive disorder in youths with IDDM. A controlled prospective study of course and outcome. 
  • Mammary carcinogenesis in rats fed different amounts and types of fat. 
  • Managed-Medicare health club benefit and reduced health care costs among older adults. 
  • Manual therapy provided by physical therapists in a hospital-based setting: a retrospective analysis. 
  • Marginalization in neural circuits with divisive normalization. 
  • Matched-related donor transplantation for sickle cell disease: report from the Center for International Blood and Transplant Research. 
  • Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight. 
  • Mathematical models and clinical care of nursing home patients. 
  • Maximizing Tumor Control and Limiting Complications With Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer. 
  • Maximum likelihood estimation of a stochastic compartment model of cancer latency: lung cancer mortality among white females in the U.S. 
  • Measurement of chemoresistance markers in patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer: a novel approach for patient selection. 
  • Measurement of cortical thickness from MRI by minimum line integrals on soft-classified tissue. 
  • Measuring blood pressure for decision making and quality reporting: where and how many measures? 
  • Measuring similarity between dynamic ensembles of biomolecules. 
  • Mechanism of dynamic visual acuity recovery with vestibular rehabilitation. 
  • Mechanisms in the cycle of violence. 
  • Media coverage of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism controversy and its relationship to MMR immunization rates in the United States. 
  • Medicare prospective payment and posthospital transfers to subacute care. 
  • Medicine. A portfolio model of drug development for tuberculosis. 
  • Metallothionein abrogates GTP cyclohydrolase I inhibition-induced cardiac contractile and morphological defects: role of mitochondrial biogenesis. 
  • Method for Calculating the Simultaneous Maximum Acceptable Risk Threshold (SMART) from Discrete-Choice Experiment Benefit-Risk Studies. 
  • Methods of measuring swimming speed of spermatozoa. 
  • Migration patterns of recent medical school graduates. 
  • Mild cognitive impairment and 10-year trajectories of disability in the Iowa Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly cohort. 
  • Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge. 
  • Modeling daily flowering probabilities: expected impact of climate change on Japanese cherry phenology. 
  • Modeling of bias for the analysis of receptor signaling in biochemical systems. 
  • Modeling the relationship between most probable number (MPN) and colony-forming unit (CFU) estimates of fecal coliform concentration. 
  • Models of the interaction of mortality and the evolution of risk factor distribution: a general stochastic process formulation. 
  • Modulation of Complex-Spike Duration and Probability during Cerebellar Motor Learning in Visually Guided Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements of Monkeys. 
  • Monte Carlo simulation and molecular theory of tethered polyelectrolytes. 
  • Mucus observations in the fertile window: a better predictor of conception than timing of intercourse. 
  • Multiple population models for multivariate random length data--with applications in clinical trials. 
  • Multiple, conserved cryptic recombination signals in VH gene segments: detection of cleavage products only in pro B cells. 
  • Mutations linked to drug resistance, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 biologic phenotype and their association with disease progression in children receiving nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. 
  • National outcomes of cataract extraction. Retinal detachment and endophthalmitis after outpatient cataract surgery. Cataract Patient Outcomes Research Team. 
  • Natural-scene geometry predicts the perception of angles and line orientation. 
  • Neointimal inflammation and adventitial angiogenesis correlate with severity of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in pediatric recipients. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcome of infants with unilateral or bilateral periventricular hemorrhagic infarction. 
  • Neuropsychology of the prodrome to psychosis in the NAPLS consortium: relationship to family history and conversion to psychosis. 
  • Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients who present during off hours have higher risk profiles and are treated less aggressively, but their outcomes are not worse: a report from Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress ADverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines CRUSADE initiative. 
  • Nonequilibrium dynamics of probe filaments in actin-myosin networks. 
  • Objective structured assessment of technical skills for repair of fourth-degree perineal lacerations. 
  • On random sample size, ignorability, ancillarity, completeness, separability, and degeneracy: sequential trials, random sample sizes, and missing data. 
  • On the evaluation of reliability, repeatability, and reproducibility of instrumental evaluation methods and measurement systems. 
  • Optimized prostate biopsy via a statistical atlas of cancer spatial distribution. 
  • Organization of the intermediate gray layer of the superior colliculus. I. Intrinsic vertical connections. 
  • Outcome of twin, triplet, and quadruplet in vitro fertilization pregnancies: the Norfolk experience. 
  • Outcomes in bicaval versus biatrial techniques in heart transplantation: an analysis of the UNOS database. 
  • Outcomes of autologous and allogeneic blood or marrow transplantation for mantle cell lymphoma. 
  • Outcomes of primary repair and primary anastomosis in war-related colon injuries. 
  • Overdiagnosis in low-dose computed tomography screening for lung cancer. 
  • Overestimation of test effects in clinical judgment. 
  • Overexpression of HER-2/neu is associated with poor survival in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer. 
  • Oxygen transport dynamics after resuscitation with a conjugated hemoglobin solution. 
  • Patterns of exercise across the cancer trajectory in brain tumor patients. 
  • Pediatric AIDS prognosis using somatic growth velocity. 
  • Percent tumor involvement and risk of biochemical progression after radical prostatectomy. 
  • Perception as probability. 
  • Perceptions of oral health training and attitudes toward performing oral health screenings among graduating pediatric residents. 
  • Perceptual learning as improved probabilistic inference in early sensory areas. 
  • Performance of Traditional Pretest Probability Estimates in Stable Patients Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. 
  • Persistent diarrhoea in Nigerian children aged less than five years: a hospital-based study. 
  • Phase I and pharmacokinetic study of erlotinib for solid tumors in patients with hepatic or renal dysfunction: CALGB 60101. 
  • Phase II cancer clinical trials for biomarker-guided treatments. 
  • Phase II randomized trial of weekly paclitaxel with or without estramustine phosphate in progressive, metastatic, hormone-refractory prostate cancer. 
  • Phase II trial of irinotecan plus celecoxib in adults with recurrent malignant glioma. 
  • Phase IIb multicenter trial of vorinostat in patients with persistent, progressive, or treatment refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. 
  • Phase aberration correction using echo signals from moving targets. I: Description and theory. 
  • PheProb: probabilistic phenotyping using diagnosis codes to improve power for genetic association studies. 
  • Physical activity patterns during pregnancy through postpartum. 
  • Physicians' quantitative assessments of medical futility. 
  • Planning the size and duration of a clinical trial studying the time to some critical event. 
  • Plasma N-terminal fragment of the prohormone B-type natriuretic peptide concentrations in relation to time to treatment and Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow: a substudy of the Assessment of the Safety and Efficacy of a New Treatment Strategy with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (ASSENT IV-PCI) trial. 
  • Playing the odds. 
  • Postoperative antibiotic therapy for children with perforated appendicitis: long course of intravenous antibiotics versus early conversion to an oral regimen. 
  • Postpartum diabetes screening in women with a history of gestational diabetes. 
  • Posttraumatic stress without trauma in children. 
  • Power considerations for trials of two experimental arms versus a standard active control or placebo. 
  • Precision of neural timing: effects of convergence and time-windowing. 
  • Predicting BCI subject performance using probabilistic spatio-temporal filters. 
  • Predicting Response to PEEP in Mechanically Ventilated Pediatric Patients: What Are the Odds? 
  • Predicting gestational diabetes: choosing the optimal early serum marker. 
  • Predicting outcome in coronary disease. Statistical models versus expert clinicians. 
  • Predicting response to amitriptyline in posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Predicting the clinical status of human breast cancer by using gene expression profiles. 
  • Predicting time to hospital discharge for extremely preterm infants. 
  • Prediction from low birth weight to female adolescent depression: a test of competing hypotheses. 
  • Prediction in drug abuse: cocaine interactions with alcohol and buprenorphine. 
  • Predictive Model for Neoplastic Potential of Gallbladder Polyp. 
  • Predictors of antidepressant use among older adults: have they changed over time? 
  • Predictors of discharges to a nursing home in a hospital-based cohort. 
  • Predictors of function among the old-old: a 10-year follow-up. 
  • Predictors of outcome of epilepsy surgery: multivariate analysis with validation. 
  • Prevalence and incidence of probable perinatal depression among women enrolled in Option B+ antenatal HIV care in Malawi. 
  • Prevention of sudden cardiac death: a probabilistic model for decision support. 
  • Primary tumor characteristics predict sentinel lymph node macrometastasis in breast cancer. 
  • Prior cesarean and the risk for placenta previa on second-trimester ultrasonography. 
  • Probabilistic Readjudication of Heart Failure Hospitalization Events in the PARAGON-HF Study. 
  • Probabilistic brains: knowns and unknowns. 
  • Probabilistic inferential decision-making under time pressure in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). 
  • Probability lower bounds for USP/NF tests. 
  • Probability monitoring procedures for sample size determination. 
  • Probability of Major Depression Classification Based on the SCID, CIDI, and MINI Diagnostic Interviews: A Synthesis of Three Individual Participant Data Meta-Analyses. 
  • Probability of major depression diagnostic classification using semi-structured versus fully structured diagnostic interviews. 
  • Probability of severe frailty development among operative and nonoperative adult spinal deformity patients: an actuarial survivorship analysis over a 3-year period. 
  • Probability samples of area births versus clinic populations for reproductive epidemiology studies. 
  • Problems and advantages of an observational data base approach to evaluating the effect of therapy on outcome. 
  • Promoter prediction on a genomic scale--the Adh experience. 
  • Proper staging techniques in testicular cancer patients. 
  • Properties and pitfalls of weighting as an alternative to multilevel multiple imputation in cluster randomized trials with missing binary outcomes under covariate-dependent missingness. 
  • Prospective data collection of a new procedure by a specialty society: the FIBROID registry. 
  • Prostate intrafraction motion assessed by simultaneous kilovoltage fluoroscopy at megavoltage delivery I: clinical observations and pattern analysis. 
  • Protease inhibitor-based antiretroviral therapy and glucose tolerance in pregnancy: AIDS Clinical Trials Group A5084. 
  • Psychiatric disorders in youths with IDDM: rates and risk factors. 
  • Psychiatric emergency service use after implementation of managed care in a public mental health system. 
  • Pulmonary endarterectomy: experience and lessons learned in 1,500 cases. 
  • Pulmonary segmentectomy by thoracotomy or thoracoscopy: reduced hospital length of stay with a minimally-invasive approach. 
  • Quality-of-life improvements in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma patients treated with denileukin diftitox (ONTAK). 
  • Quantifying kinetic paths of protein folding. 
  • Quantitating bedside diagnosis: clinical evaluation of ascites. 
  • Quantitative assessments from the clinical examination. 
  • R package to estimate intracluster correlation coefficient with confidence interval for binary data. 
  • Race and trust in the health care system. 
  • Racial differences in enrolment in a cancer genetics registry. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in the epidemiology of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of 12 case-control studies. 
  • Radiation exposure in the acute and short-term management of urolithiasis at 2 academic centers. 
  • Radiation-induced liver disease after three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: dosimetric analysis and implication. 
  • Radical prostatectomy for clinical stage T1-2N0M0 prostatic adenocarcinoma: long-term results. 
  • Radical prostatectomy: anatomical predictors of success or failure. 
  • Random and nonrandom behavior of symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. 
  • Random nature of fibrillation leads to the probabilistic nature of defibrillation. 
  • Randomized, controlled trial of an intervention for toddlers with autism: the Early Start Denver Model. 
  • Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of orlistat for weight loss in adolescents. 
  • Rapid brain responses independently predict gain maximization and loss minimization during economic decision making. 
  • Re: Dosimetric consequences of increased seed strength for I-125 prostate implants. Radiother Oncol. 2003 Sep;68(3):295-7. 
  • Red cell distribution width as a novel prognostic marker in heart failure: data from the CHARM Program and the Duke Databank. 
  • Reduced inspiratory flow attenuates IL-8 release and MAPK activation of lung overstretch. 
  • Regional cardiac sympathetic innervation early and late after transmyocardial laser revascularization. 
  • Regression modelling strategies for improved prognostic prediction. 
  • Regression models for prognostic prediction: advantages, problems, and suggested solutions. 
  • Regression with a right-censored predictor using inverse probability weighting methods. 
  • Relation of frequency and severity of mitral regurgitation to survival among patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure. 
  • Relationship between cancer patients' predictions of prognosis and their treatment preferences. 
  • Relationship of serum digoxin concentration to mortality and morbidity in women in the digitalis investigation group trial: a retrospective analysis. 
  • Relative importance of systemic determinants of retinal arteriolar and venular caliber: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. 
  • Reliability of single-lead and multiple-lead electrocardiography during and after exercise. 
  • Religion and HIV in Tanzania: influence of religious beliefs on HIV stigma, disclosure, and treatment attitudes. 
  • Religious attendance reduces cognitive decline among older women with high levels of depressive symptoms. 
  • Reproducibility of tumor motion probability distribution function in stereotactic body radiation therapy of lung cancer. 
  • Results of a Phase I study utilizing monocyte-derived dendritic cells pulsed with tumor RNA in children with Stage 4 neuroblastoma. 
  • Right ventricular hypertrophy with early dysfunction: A proteomics study in a neonatal model. 
  • Rising CO2 levels and the fecundity of forest trees. 
  • Risk assessment models to estimate cancer probabilities. 
  • Risk factors associated with failure 1 year after retropubic or transobturator midurethral slings. 
  • Risk factors associated with thrombosis in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies. 
  • Risk factors for chemotherapy-associated venous thromboembolism in a prospective observational study. 
  • Risk factors for development of subclinical hypothyroidism during valproic acid therapy. 
  • Risk factors for infective endocarditis in patients with enterococcal bacteremia: a case-control study. 
  • Role of magnetic resonance imaging in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia: insights from the North American arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD/C) study. 
  • Role of race and sex in diagnosis and one-year follow up of deep venous thrombosis. 
  • Safety and efficacy of quinupristin/dalfopristin for treatment of invasive Gram-positive infections in pediatric patients. 
  • Satisficing in split-second decision making is characterized by strategic cue discounting. 
  • Scalpdex: a quality-of-life instrument for scalp dermatitis. 
  • Screening for lung cancer. 
  • Seamless Phase IIa/IIb and enhanced dose-finding adaptive design. 
  • Second metatarsal stress fracture in sport: comparative risk factors between proximal and non-proximal locations. 
  • Segregation and linkage analysis of alpha-N-acetyl-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) levels in a black family. 
  • Selection of a management strategy for pediatric brainstem tumors. 
  • Self-consistent tumor control probability and normal tissue complication probability models based on generalized EUDa). 
  • Sensitivity analysis on a chance node with more than two branches. 
  • Separate neural mechanisms underlie choices and strategic preferences in risky decision making. 
  • Severe hemodynamic impairment and border zone--region infarction. 
  • Short bowel syndrome after trauma. 
  • Short-term efficacy of methylphenidate: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial among survivors of childhood cancer. 
  • Shortening increases spontaneous contractility in myometrium from pregnant women at term. 
  • Should the definition for the negative likelihood ratio be changed? 
  • Signatures of neutral evolution in exponentially growing tumors: A theoretical perspective. 
  • Significance of basal follicle-stimulating hormone levels in women with one ovary in a program of in vitro fertilization. 
  • Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation from donation after cardiac death: successful long-term outcomes. 
  • Simultaneous temporal processing is sensitive to prenatal choline availability in mature and aged rats. 
  • Single-center North American experience with wolf Piezolith 3000 in management of urinary calculi. 
  • Size contrast and assimilation explained by the statistics of natural scene geometry. 
  • Social sampling: Children track social choices to reason about status hierarchies. 
  • Sociodemographic correlates of health beliefs among black and white community dwelling elderly individuals. 
  • Socioeconomic status and outcome following acute myocardial infarction in elderly patients. 
  • Solo versus group practice in the medical profession: the influence of malpractice risk. 
  • Some features of the spread of epidemics and information on a random graph. 
  • Spatial analysis of the etiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among 1991 Gulf War veterans. 
  • Statistical characterization of protein ensembles. 
  • Statistical methods in SUPPORT. 
  • Statistically adjusted estimates of geographic mortality profiles. 
  • Stepping-stone spatial structure causes slow decay of linkage disequilibrium and shifts the site frequency spectrum. 
  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannomas: Tumor Control Probability Analyses and Recommended Reporting Standards. 
  • Stochastic sensitivity analysis and kernel inference via distributional data. 
  • Stratification of risk factors in renal cell carcinoma. 
  • Stratified Fisher's exact test and its sample size calculation. 
  • Strength-duration and probability of success curves for defibrillation with biphasic waveforms. 
  • Stress and substance use among military women and men. 
  • Stroke as a late treatment effect of Hodgkin's Disease: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Strong Binding of Platelet Integrin αIIbβ3 to Fibrin Clots: Potential Target to Destabilize Thrombi. 
  • Subfunctionalization: How often does it occur? How long does it take? 
  • Subjective value representations during effort, probability and time discounting across adulthood. 
  • Substance use, dependence, and service utilization among the US uninsured nonelderly population. 
  • Superficial genitourinary abscesses in children: emergence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Superior in-hospital and 30-day outcomes with abciximab versus eptifibatide: a contemporary analysis of 495 consecutive percutaneous coronary interventions. 
  • Surgeons' Recommendations for Neurodiagnostic Testing With High Pretest Probability of Idiopathic Median Neuropathy at the Carpal Tunnel. 
  • Symptom complaints and health care seeking behavior in subjects with bowel dysfunction. 
  • Targeted deletion of angiotensin II type 1A receptor does not protect mice from progressive nephropathy of overload proteinuria. 
  • Task performance in stapedotomy: comparison between surgeons of different experience levels. 
  • Teamwork and quality during neonatal care in the delivery room. 
  • Temozolomide is a novel regional infusion agent for the treatment of advanced extremity melanoma. 
  • Temperature-induced opening of TRPV1 ion channel is stabilized by the pore domain. 
  • The CRIT Study: Anemia and blood transfusion in the critically ill--current clinical practice in the United States. 
  • The FIBROID Registry: symptom and quality-of-life status 1 year after therapy. 
  • The Fibroid Registry for outcomes data (FIBROID) for uterine embolization: short-term outcomes. 
  • The HIT Expert Probability (HEP) Score: a novel pre-test probability model for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia based on broad expert opinion. 
  • The Harmonizing Outcomes with RevasculariZatiON and Stents in Acute Myocardial Infarction (HORIZONS-AMI) Trial: study design and rationale. 
  • The Müller-Lyer illusion explained by the statistics of image-source relationships. 
  • The PESSRI study: symptom relief outcomes of a randomized crossover trial of the ring and Gellhorn pessaries. 
  • The availability of community ties predicts likelihood of peer referral for mammography: geographic constraints on viral marketing. 
  • The cancer screening practices of adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • The clinician as investigator: participating in clinical trials in the practice setting: Appendix 2: statistical concepts in study design and analysis. 
  • The complex relationship between pediatric cardiac surgical case volumes and mortality rates in a national clinical database. 
  • The cortical ring sign: a reliable radiographic landmark for percutaneous coracoclavicular fixation. 
  • The economic consequences of available diagnostic and prognostic strategies for the evaluation of stable angina patients: an observational assessment of the value of precatheterization ischemia. Economics of Noninvasive Diagnosis (END) Multicenter Study Group. 
  • The effect of insurance benefit changes on use of child and adolescent outpatient mental health services. 
  • The efficacy of femoral nerve block in pain reduction for outpatient hamstring anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a double-blind, prospective, randomized trial. 
  • The empirical basis of color perception. 
  • The impact of item order on ratings of cancer risk perception. 
  • The impact of microsomal prostaglandin e synthase 1 on blood pressure is determined by genetic background. 
  • The impact of patient compliance on drug concentration profile in multiple doses. 
  • The impact of the format of graphical presentation on health-related knowledge and treatment choices. 
  • The incidence of venous gas emboli in recreational diving. 
  • The nitric oxide donor S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) increases free radical generation and degrades left ventricular function after myocardial ischemia-reperfusion. 
  • The nitric oxide synthase inhibitor N(G)-nitro-L-arginine decreases defibrillation-induced free radical generation. 
  • The prediction of adolescent homicide: episodic dyscontrol and dehumanization. 
  • The probability and severity of decompression sickness. 
  • The probability of HLA-C matching between patient and unrelated donor at the molecular level: estimations based on the linkage disequilibrium between DNA typed HLA-B and HLA-C alleles. 
  • The probability of defibrillation success and the incidence of postshock arrhythmia as a function of shock strength. 
  • The propagation of uncertainty in human mortality processes operating in stochastic environments. 
  • The rate of progression of renal disease may not be slower in women compared with men: a patient-level meta-analysis. 
  • The rational clinical examination. Is this patient having a myocardial infarction? 
  • The relationship between cervical secretions and the daily probabilities of pregnancy: effectiveness of the TwoDay Algorithm. 
  • The relationship between insurance coverage and psychiatric disorder in predicting use of mental health services. 
  • The relationship between violence in Northern Mexico and potentially avoidable hospitalizations in the USA-Mexico border region. 
  • The risk of subsequent fractures in community-dwelling men and male veterans with hip fracture. 
  • The role of decision analysis in informed consent: choosing between intuition and systematicity. 
  • The same sequence variant on 9p21 associates with myocardial infarction, abdominal aortic aneurysm and intracranial aneurysm. 
  • The shrinking ark: patterns of large mammal extinctions in India. 
  • The social-environmental context of violent behavior in persons treated for severe mental illness. 
  • The spontaneous occurrence of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. 
  • The statistical structure of natural light patterns determines perceived light intensity. 
  • The structure and structural effects of VA rehabilitation bedservice care for stroke. 
  • The uncertainty principle and industry-sponsored research. 
  • The use of pretest probability increases the value of high-resolution CT in diagnosing usual interstitial pneumonia. 
  • The use of radionuclide angiography in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease--a logistic regression analysis. 
  • The vagus nerve and nicotinic receptors modulate experimental pancreatitis severity in mice. 
  • Thoracic duct ligation for persistent chylothorax after pediatric cardiothoracic surgery. 
  • Thoracoscopic lobectomy facilitates the delivery of chemotherapy after resection for lung cancer. 
  • Thresholds of fibrillating leakage currents along intracardiac catheters: an experimental study. 
  • To err on humans is not benign. Incentives for adoption of medical error-reporting systems. 
  • Transitional probability-based model for HPV clearance in HIV-1-positive adolescent females. 
  • Transpyloric tube feeding in very low birthweight infants with suspected gastroesophageal reflux: impact on apnea and bradycardia. 
  • Trends in US suicide mortality rates 1968 to 1982: race and sex differences in age, period and cohort components. 
  • Trinomial decompression sickness model using full, marginal, and non-event outcomes. 
  • Two mechanistic pathways for thienopyridine-associated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: a report from the SERF-TTP Research Group and the RADAR Project. 
  • Ultrasound assessment for extravascular lung water in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Time course for resolution. 
  • Ultrasound of the postpartum uterus. Prediction of retained placental tissue. 
  • Use of Telehealth Screening to Detect Diabetic Retinopathy and Other Ocular Findings in Primary Care Settings. 
  • Using daily ratings to confirm premenstrual syndrome/late luteal phase dysphoric disorder. Part I. Effects of demand characteristics and expectations. 
  • Using inverse probability-weighted estimators in comparative effectiveness analyses with observational databases. 
  • Using ordinal logistic regression to estimate the likelihood of colorectal neoplasia. 
  • Using the percentage of biopsy cores positive for cancer, pretreatment PSA, and highest biopsy Gleason sum to predict pathologic stage after radical prostatectomy: the Center for Prostate Disease Research nomograms. 
  • Utilization of lung scans by clinicians. 
  • Utilization of the PICO framework to improve searching PubMed for clinical questions. 
  • Validation and potential mechanisms of red cell distribution width as a prognostic marker in heart failure. 
  • Validation of a Model Predicting De Novo Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women Undergoing Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery. 
  • Validation of a cadaveric model for comprehensive physiologic and anatomic evaluation of rhinoplastic techniques. 
  • Validation of an oncology-specific opioid risk calculator in cancer survivors. 
  • Validation of two models to estimate the probability of malignancy in patients with solitary pulmonary nodules. 
  • Variance estimation for the average treatment effects on the treated and on the controls. 
  • Variations of weight loss following gastric bypass and gastric band. 
  • Vascular targeted endoradiotherapy of tumors using alpha-particle-emitting compounds: theoretical analysis. 
  • Visual continuity across saccades is influenced by expectations. 
  • Visualizing transient Watson-Crick-like mispairs in DNA and RNA duplexes. 
  • Vulvar mucus observations and the probability of pregnancy. 
  • Why flying dogs are rare: A general theory of luck in evolutionary transitions. 
  • Yield of colonoscopy in patients with nonacute rectal bleeding: a multicenter database study of 1766 patients. 
  • Young Infants' Word Comprehension Given An Unfamiliar Talker or Altered Pronunciations. 
  • Young age at diagnosis correlates with worse prognosis and defines a subset of breast cancers with shared patterns of gene expression. 
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