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... PaO2:FiO2 ratio (P:F ratio) using the weighted mean of mean differences (P:F ratio after drainage - P:F ratio before drainage; a measure of absolute change) and the ratio of means (P:F ratio after ... plot of meta-analysis of studies reporting change in oxygenation after pleural drainage P a O 2 :F i O 2 ratios before and after thoracentesis analyzed by (a) relative mean difference (ratio of ... presence of pleural effusion on chest radiography has been associated with a longer duration of mechanical ventilation and ICU stay, the causal relationship is unclear [2] Data from animal studies

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... data, performed statistical analysis and tabulated quality indicators of the studies. IS and SM carried out the primary study search and extracted data. AL carried out statistical analysis and ... dialysis modality), and a description of dropouts. Data analysis and assessment for bias Data were analysed by STATA version 11 (StataCorp, College Station, TX. USA) and Comprehensive Meta- analysis ... this article as: Karvellas et al.: A comparison of early versus late initiation of renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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... 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03206.x Yamada, M., Aoyama, T., Nakamura, M., Tanaka, B., Nagai, K., Tatematsu, N., Uemura, K., Nakamura, T., Tsuboyama, T., Ichihashi, N., 2011b The reliability and preliminary validity Trang 26Accepted ... Woollacott, M., Shumway-Cook, A., 2002 Attention and the control of posture and gait: a review of an emerging area of research Gait Posture 16(1), 1-14 Yamada, M., Aoyama, T., Arai, H., Nagai, ... evaluated in a meta-analysis The primary aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis, therefore, was to determine whether dual task walking paradigms involving a secondary cognitive task are

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... velocity and acceleration • 2A = Peak to Peak = Used to measure total displacement of a shaft with respect to available bearing clearance • RMS = Root Mean Squared amplitude - A measure of energy ... Trang 1A Brief Introduction to Vibration Analysis of Process Plant Machinery (I) Basic Concepts I Machinery Vibration is Complex Vibration of a machine is not usually simple • Many frequencies ... displacement from its central position or flexural deformation Rotation is about an axis intersecting and normal to the axis of rotation • Axial Motion occurs parallel to the rotor’s axis of rotation

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... Trang 1ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition Position PaperIntravenous Lipid Emulsions and risk of Hepatotoxicity in Infants and Children: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis DR Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan ... enzymes ( ALT, AST, ALP, GGT) after the use of ILE Materials and Methods Trang 8Materials and MethodsFig 2 Flow chart of search results. Trang 91 Short-term (3–27 days) use in neonates including ... Parenteral nutrition-associated conjugated hyperbilirubinemia in hospitalized infants J Am Diet Assoc 2010; • [7] Nehra D, Fallon EM, Puder M The prevention and treatment of intestinal failure-associated

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... health utility trajectories Data were analyzed using STATA 12.0, ‘xtmixed’ and ‘mfp’ syntax The details of data analysis and extracted data set are provided in Additional files 1 and 2 Ethical ... pa-tients to make a gamble between a chance of good health and a chance of death, and most people are reluc-tant to accept a large risk of death to avoid an adverse health state [72,73] There has been ... Trang 1R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Open AccessLongitudinal and cross sectional assessments of health utility in adults with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review and meta-analysis Bach Xuan Tran1,2*†,

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... Therefore, an average of the subscale scores was used Data collection process and risk of bias within studies Data extraction and risk of bias assessment was per-formed according to the Cochrane Collaboration ... Cochrane Collab-oration Guidelines [21], the SMD can be calculated using means and standard deviations either of final measure-ments or of changes from baseline Standard deviations of changes ... post-treatment data, or if the study authors had carried out an intent-to-treat analysis Pro-tocols were not available for any of the eleven studies Reporting bias was therefore evaluated purely based

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... significance of association with RA [68].PADI4 (peptidyl-arginine de-iminases_type 4) appears to have important association with RA in Asian populations On the other hand, an association between RA and ... separately Weak association between PADI4 and RA susceptibility was noticed in Caucasian cohorts PADI4 was convincingly associated with RA disease in East Asian populations Too et al [89] aimed ... Introduction RA is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflamma-tion of the joints and other areas of the body RA is character-ized by periods of disease development and attenuation RA tends to affect

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... Upadhyay1* , Gitismita Naik1, Tarun Shankar Choudhary1, Ranadip Chowdhury1, Sunita Taneja1, Nita Bhandari1, Jose Carlos Martines2, Rajiv Bahl3and Maharaj Kishan Bhan4,5 Abstract Background: South Asia ... (RPU) Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale adapted for observational studies was used for quality assessment of authors separately (GN and TSC) In case of any dis-crepancy, a third author (RPU) ... and populations In the developed settings, LBWs are predominantly pre-mature whereas small for gestational age (SGA) social factors, economic factors as well as quality of available health care

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... individuals a Forest plots of estimate of overall odds ratio asthmatic b cumulative meta-analysis and c meta-regression analysis with OR of asthma in obese individual and year of publication Trang ... States of America and Canada (North America), 2 in Peru and Brazil (South America), 3 in Montenegro, Greece and Italy (Europe) and 2 in Iran and Saudi Arabia (Asia) were identified with an age ... Trang 1R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Open AccessEffect of childhood BMI on asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies Abstract Background: Asthma is a multifactorial

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... were assessed as a low risk of bias within a study, the study was assigned an overall low risk of bias This characterisation indicates that bias is unlikely to affect the results Data analysis ... (setting, organisa-tion, goals, and parental involvement) (Table 1) The intensity of training was described as the amount of train-ing and duration of the traintrain-ing periods The amount was categorised ... Trang 1R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Open AccessIntensive training of motor function and functional skills among young children with cerebral palsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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... Flow diagram of the literature search process Table 2 Meta-analysis summary estimates of breast milk composition per 100 milliliters at various postnatal ages (mean (+/ −2 standard deviations)) ... Trail NW, Calgary, AB T3B 6A8, Canada Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2014 Gidrewicz and Fenton; licensee BioMed Central Ltd This is an Open Access article ... Trang 1R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Open AccessA systematic review and meta-analysis of the nutrient content of preterm and term breast milk Dominica A Gidrewicz1*and Tanis R Fenton2 Abstract

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... final sample sizes and (3) the potential loss of power with fewer included studies at the IPD level, apost hoc decision was made to conduct an aggre-gate data meta-analysis, an approach similar ... Hispanic/Latino, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander male and female children, assigned to either a coed soccer n ð ¼ 9;
Χ  SD; 9 :5  0:58 yrs of ageÞ or active placebo ... and reviewed every item for agreement Disagree-ments were resolved by consensus Statistical analysis The a priori plan was to conduct a one-step individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis

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... Trang 1Attenuation of increased intraocular pressure with propofol anesthesia:A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis Chun-Yu Changa, Yung-Jiun Chienb, ... Keywords: Anesthesia Intraocular pressure Meta-analysis a b s t r a c t Attenuation of an increase in intraocular pressure (IOP) is crucial to preventing devastating postoperative visual loss following ... CO2are associated with increased IOP Trendelenburg, prone, and lateral decubitus positions are associated with increased IOP Propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) attenuates elevated

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... Trang 1R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Open AccessPrevalence of neonatal hypothermia and its associated factors in East Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis Biruk Beletew1*, Ayelign ... context Review question The review questions of this systematic review and meta-analysis were: What is the prevalence of neonatal hypothermia in East Africa? What are the determinates of neonatal ... design Table 2 Summary of subgroup analysis of the prevalence of neonatal hypothermia in Eastern Africa by country, design and year of publication, from January 2000–December 2019 Variables Characteristics

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... estimate the national prevalence and associated factors of pneumonia in Eastern Africa Methods: Using PRISMA guideline, we systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed studies that examined the prevalence ... can be classified based on place of acquisition: as community acquired or hos-pital acquired; based on its causative agents/ mechanism as bacterial, viral, fungal, Aspiration, or ventilator-associated ... setting, seasonal variation, unreachability and provision of Vitamin A supplementa-tion and immunizasupplementa-tion, lack of confirmatory laboratories and imaging investigations This systematic review

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... Copenhagen: The Nordic Cochrane Centre, The Cochrane Collaboration; 2014. 26 Zamora J, Abraira V, Muriel A, Khan K, Coomarasamy A Meta-DiSc: a software for meta-analysis of test accuracy data BMC ... and Embase, and were assessed for internal validity by the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 (QUADAS-2) The figure of risk of bias was created by Review Manager 5.3 and data ... SW Val-d ’Or Canadian Paediatric Society: Community Paediatrics Committee Temperature Measurements in Paediatrics Ontario; 2007. 13 Teller J, Ragazzi M, Simonetti GD, Lava SA Accuracy of tympanic

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... membranes are composite membranes made by interfacial polymerization; aromatic polypiperazine is an example of a widely-used nanofiltration membrane There are many commercially available RO membranes, ... Presented at Fourth National Meeting of the North American Membrane Society, May 29-31, 1991, San Diego, California Bhattacharyya, D., and Kothari, A. , "Separation of Hazardous Organics by Low ... Membrane for Single-Stage Seawater Desalination and the Concentration of Dilute Aqueous Solutions Containing Valuable Materials", Desalination, 38, 449 (1981) Lakshminarayanaiah, N., "Transport...

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... profit manipulation seen as an ethical act as well as the role of the accounting information in the Anglo-Saxon model of corporative governance Financial Markets There are significant proofs of ... managers are asked to watch the value of the shareholders’ capital The fair value (FVA) ensures a complete information, compatible with the reality and transparent The application of the FVA ... Great Britain has initially led to enterprise collapses and financial scandals As a result of these (Coloroll and Polly Peak, etc ) and of the lack of trust in the financial reporting of several...

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... Zhang DY Intracranial tuberculoma in a liver transplant patient: first reported case and review of the literature Am J Transplant 2003;3:88-93 Al-Moamary MS, Al-Baz S, Alothman A, Memish Z, AlJahdali ... Niiya T, Kaneko J, Makuuchi M Resection of a pulmonary lesion after liver transplantation: report of a case Surg Today 2005;35:976-978 Alothman A, Al Abdulkareem A, Al Hemsi B, Issa S, Al Sarraj ... 899 TABLE Predictors of Mortality (Univariate Analysis) MTB Mortality‡ Overall Mortality Characteristics Patient characteristics Mean age (years) Male (%) Transplant center (%) US or Canadian European...

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