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Spring 2024
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), a devastating stroke caused by the rupture of vasculature in the brain, is responsible for <20% of all strokes, yet accounts for a disproportionately high burden of stroke related death and disability. The formation and degradation of the hematoma (blood clot)...
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Factors Associated with Return to Work after a Spinal Cord Injury: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
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Background: Individuals with a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) experience challenges in obtaining and maintaining employment. The overall Return-To-Work (RTW) rate after SCI is lower than the employment rate of the general population. Some factors have been reported in the literature as being associated...
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Spring 2022
Carotid atherosclerosis is responsible for 15-25% of the nearly 8 million first-ever ischemic strokes that occur each year worldwide. This proportion has remained constant over the past three decades, thus suggesting that some patients with carotid atherosclerosis currently receive suboptimal...
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Fall 2021
The field of animal personality, the study of adaptive among-individual behavioural differences in animal populations, has both exploded in popularity in the last few decades and come under heavy scrutiny by behavioural ecologists. The sudden interest in the field stems from the widespread...
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Putative ante-mortem indicators of Alzheimer’s dementia: Analysis of fluid biomarker and neuroimaging studies
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Dementia is a clinical state, characterized by symptoms indicative of deterioration of memoryand cognitive functions that interferes with social or occupational functioning. According to2018 statistics, around 50 million people are living with dementia, and this number will increaseto 131.5...
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Spring 2019
Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia and is increasing in prevalence worldwide. While it is not acutely life threatening, the complications of stroke and heart failure carry high mortality rates and extensive healthcare costs. Healthcare leaders have identified the extra demands...
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Diminishing Returns in Cardiovascular Disease Research: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
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If “usual care” improves with time, it becomes increasingly difficult for new therapies to demonstrate additional benefit. Our objective then was to determine, by systematic review of randomized trials, whether the absolute cardiovascular risk reduction attributed to community-implemented...
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Spring 2018
Background: Overviews of reviews of healthcare interventions (overviews) compile information from multiple systematic reviews (SRs) to provide a single synthesis of relevant evidence for health-care decision-making. Their increasing popularity, combined with a lack of evidence-based guidance for...
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Patient-reported outcome measures for adverse events: A systematic review and COSMIN evaluation study
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ABSTRACT Background: Health care requires constant improvement. Harms in health care are becoming a priority, as is incorporating the patient’s voice in both clinical research and clinical care. Patients have been found to provide a more subjective, detailed perspective of their treatment...
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The Effects of Reading Interventions on the Word-Reading Performance of English Language Learners: A Meta-Analysis
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Despite a large body of research on the effectiveness of reading interventions for monolingual English speakers, research on reading interventions for English language learners (ELLs) is still relatively scarce. Because the number of ELLs in schools is growing rapidly and these students often...