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  1. Adherence to Mediterranean diet in Italy (ARIANNA) cross-sectional survey: study protocol
  2. Molecular Profiling of Tissue Samples with Chronic Rejection from Patients with Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction: A Pilot Study in Cystic Fibrosis Patients
  3. Use of Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials (SMARTs) in oncology: systematic review of published studies
  4. A Machine-Learning Model for the Prognostic Role of C-Reactive Protein in Myocarditis
  5. Evaluation of Tissue Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Lung Recipients Supported by Intraoperative Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Single-Center Pilot Study
  6. Assessment of Glucose Lowering Medications’ Effectiveness for Cardiovascular Clinical Risk Management of Real-World Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation under Model Misspecification and Missing Outcomes
  7. Identifying Predictors of Anal HPV Status in HPV-Vaccinated MSM: A Machine Learning Approach
  8. A Bayesian Sample Size Estimation Procedure Based on a B-Splines Semiparametric Elicitation Method
  9. Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients with Severe Hypoxemic Acute Respiratory Failure: Non-Invasive Ventilation vs. Straight Intubation—A Propensity Score-Matched Multicenter Cohort Study
  10. The Impact of New Treatments on Short- and MID-Term Outcomes in Bilateral Lung Transplant: A Propensity Score Study
  11. Machine Learning Algorithms for Prediction of Survival by Stress Echocardiography in Chronic Coronary Syndromes
  12. A SuperLearner Approach to Predict Run-In Selection in Clinical Trials
  13. Preparing healthcare, academic institutions, and notified bodies for their involvement in the innovation of medical devices under the new European regulation
  14. Physical activity assessment with wearable devices in rheumatic diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  15. Increased risk of emergency department presentations for bronchiolitis in infants exposed to air pollution
  16. A Device Strategy-Matched Comparison Analysis among Different Intermacs Profiles: A Single Center Experience
  17. Sarcopenia as a Predictor of Short- and Long-Term Outcomes in Patients Surgically Treated for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
  18. Impact of Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device on Heart Transplant Candidates: A Multi-State Survival Analysis
  19. Embrace the Complexity: Agnostic Evaluation of Children’s Neuropsychological Performances Reveals Hidden Neurodevelopment Patterns
  20. A Deep Learning Approach to Estimate the Incidence of Infectious Disease Cases for Routinely Collected Ambulatory Records: The Example of Varicella-Zoster
  21. Marginal versus Standard Donors in Heart Transplantation: Proper Selection Means Heart Transplant Benefit
  22. Dynamic Prediction of Survival after Curative Resection of Gastric Adenocarcinoma: A landmarking-based analysis
  23. Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on psychological health and nutritional habits in Italy: results from the #PRESTOinsieme study
  24. RNA Sequencing of Epithelial Cell/Fibroblastic Foci Sandwich in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: New Insights on the Signaling Pathway
  25. A Web-Based Application to Monitor and Inform about the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy: The {COVID-19ita} Initiative
  26. Transapical beating heart mitral valve repair versus conventional surgery: a propensity-matched study
  27. A topic trend analysis on COVID-19 literature
  28. Air Pollution Relates to Airway Pathology in Children with Wheezing
  29. Long-Term Outcomes after Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy in the Era of Therapeutic Hypothermia: A Longitudinal, Prospective, Multicenter Case-Control Study in Children without Overt Brain Damage
  30. Thrombotic Events after COVID-19 Vaccination in the Over-50s: Results from a Population-Based Study in Italy
  31. Evaluating Effectiveness of Outpatient Monitoring in Type 2 Diabetes: The One-Year Experience in an Italian Group of Primary Care
  32. Epidemiology and Trends over Time of Foreign Body Injuries in the Pediatric Emergency Department
  33. Understanding the Factors Affecting COVID-19 Mortality in Italy: Does a Relationship Exist With a Sharp Increase in Intensive Care Unit Admissions?
  34. Improving Healthy Aging by Monitoring Patients’ Lifestyle through a Wearable Device: Results of a Feasibility Study
  35. Assessment of Coronary Inflammation by Pericoronary Fat Attenuation Index in Clinically Suspected Myocarditis with Infarct-Like Presentation
  36. Association of Treated and Untreated Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in the First Year of Life with the Subsequent Development of Asthma
  37. Sleep Quality in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
  38. Homologous Recombination Deficiency in Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Prevalence Meta-Analysis
  39. Preoperative non-palpable breast lesion localization, innovative techniques and clinical outcomes in surgical practice: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  40. Factors Associated with Mortality among Elderly People in the COVID-19 Pandemic (SARS-CoV-2): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  41. Perioperative Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Is Associated with Long-Term Neurodevelopment Outcome of Infants with Congenital Heart Disease
  42. Adjustment for Baseline Covariates to Increase Efficiency in RCTs with Binary Endpoint: A Comparison of Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches
  43. Predicting Hemodynamic Failure Development in PICU Using Machine Learning Techniques
  44. What Is the Nutritional Composition of Ultra-Processed Food Marketed in Italy?
  45. Vascular Involvement in Thymic Epithelial Tumors: Surgical and Oncological Outcomes
  46. Monitoring Patients Reported Outcomes after Valve Replacement Using Wearable Devices: Insights on Feasibility and Capability Study: Feasibility Results
  47. The Surplus Transplant Lung Allocation System in Italy: An Evaluation of the Allocation Process via Stochastic Modeling
  48. A Machine Learning Approach for Investigating Delirium as a Multifactorial Syndrome
  49. Factors Associated with Mortality Among Elderly People in the COVID-19 Pandemic (SARS-CoV-2): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  50. Monitoring Public Perception of Health Risks in Brazil and Italy: Cross-Cultural Research on the Risk Perception of Choking in Children
  51. Propensity Score Analysis with Partially Observed Baseline Covariates: A Practical Comparison of Methods for Handling Missing Data
  52. A nomogram to predict overall survival and disease-free survival after curative-intent gastrectomy for gastric cancer
  53. Positioning of Vascular Access in Pediatric Patients: An Observational Study Focusing on Adherence to Current Guidelines
  54. Short- and Long-Term Impact of Smoking Donors in Lung Transplantation: Clinical and Pathological Analysis
  55. Using Social Networks to Estimate the Number of COVID-19 Cases: The Incident (Hidden COVID-19 Cases Network Estimation) Study Protocol
  56. Profiling Delirium Progression in Elderly Patients via Continuous-Time Markov Multi-State Transition Models
  57. Does the Integration of Pre-Coded Information with Narratives Improve in-Hospital Falls’ Surveillance?
  58. To Swab or Not to Swab? The Lesson Learned in Italy in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic
  59. Excess of all-cause mortality is only partially explained by COVID-19 in Veneto (Italy) during spring outbreak
  60. Predicting in-Hospital Mortality of Patients with COVID-19 Using Machine Learning Techniques
  61. Phenomapping of Patients with Primary Breast Cancer Using Machine Learning-Based Unsupervised Cluster Analysis
  62. Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Mortality for COVID-19: A Spatial Ecological Analysis in the Veneto Region (Italy)
  63. Comparing foreign body injuries patterns between Turkey and European Countries: are female Turkish children more vulnerable?
  64. Handling Poor Accrual in Pediatric Trials: A Simulation Study Using a Bayesian Approach
  65. Factors Associated with Mortality Among Elderly People in the COVID-19 Pandemic (SARS-CoV-2): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  66. Prior Elicitation for Use in Clinical Trial Design and Analysis: A Literature Review
  67. Assessing school‐based intervention strategies to foster the prevention of choking injuries in children: The results of the CHOP (CHOking Prevention) trial
  68. Regional differences in mortality rates during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy
  69. Profiling Patients by Intensity of Nursing Care: An Operative Approach Using Machine Learning
  70. Prognostic validation of partition values for quantitative parameters to grade functional tricuspid regurgitation severity by conventional echocardiography
  71. Pediatric emergency care in a low-income country: Characteristics and outcomes of presentations to a tertiary-care emergency department in Mozambique
  72. Nutrients and Caloric Intake Associated with Fruits, Vegetables, and Legumes in the Elderly European Population
  73. Long-term experience with the one-and-a-half ventricle repair for simple and complex congenital heart defects
  74. Daily Exposure to Air Pollution Particulate Matter Is Associated with Atrial Fibrillation in High-Risk Patients
  75. Surgery for Adult Patients with Congenital Heart Disease: Results from the European Database
  76. Overrunning in clinical trials: some thoughts from a methodological review
  77. A validation study on smart wearable body sensors for the assessment of physical activity levels in the elderly population in the real-life environment (Preprint)
  78. Assessment of physical activity in the elderly population: usability and accuracy of a smartwatch (Preprint)
  79. Urgent Pacemaker Implantation Rates in the Veneto Region of Italy after the COVID-19 Outbreak
  80. How Large Was the Mortality Increase Directly and Indirectly Caused by the COVID-19 Epidemic? An Analysis on All-Causes Mortality Data in Italy
  81. A first estimation of the impact of public health actions against COVID-19 in Veneto (Italy)
  82. Impact of a Natural versus Commercial Enteral-feeding on the Occurrence of Diarrhea in Critically Ill Cardiac Surgery Patients. A Retrospective Cohort Study
  83. Dietary and Lifestyle Patterns are Associated with Heart Rate Variability
  84. OUP accepted manuscript
  85. Factors associated with blood cord unit bankability: an analysis of a 15-year-long case series
  86. Fruit and Vegetable Concentrate Supplementation and Cardiovascular Health: A Systematic Review from a Public Health Perspective
  87. (Ab)use of Health Claims in Websites: The Case of Italian Bottled Waters
  88. Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Prediction of Hospitalization in Heart Failure Patients
  89. Increasing awareness of food-choking and nutrition in children through education of caregivers: the CHOP community intervention trial study protocol
  90. Protocols for early discharging of premature infants: an empirical assessment on safety and savings
  91. The Role of Genetic Factors in Characterizing Extra-Intestinal Manifestations in Crohn’s Disease Patients: Are Bayesian Machine Learning Methods Improving Outcome Predictions?
  92. Consumers’ attitudes before and after the introduction of the Chilean regulation on food labelling
  93. High- and low-inpatients’ serum magnesium levels are associated with in-hospital mortality in elderly patients: a neglected marker?
  94. Food Composition Impacts the Accuracy of Wearable Devices When Estimating Energy Intake from Energy-Dense Food
  95. Foreign Body Injuries in Children in India: Recommendations for Prevention from a Comparative Analysis with International Experience
  96. Analysis of Unstructured Text-Based Data Using Machine Learning Techniques: The Case of Pediatric Emergency Department Records in Nicaragua
  97. Effect of Protein-Fortified Diet on Nitrogen Balance in Critically Ill Patients: Results from the OPINiB Trial
  98. Perception of Choking Injury Risk Among Healthcare Students
  99. Use of Machine Learning Techniques for Case-Detection of Varicella Zoster Using Routinely Collected Textual Ambulatory Records: Pilot Observational Study (Preprint)
  100. Measuring Caloric Intake at the Population Level (NOTION): Protocol for an Experimental Study
  101. Even a very intense exposure to TV advertising promoting fruit consumption is not enough to make children eat more fruit: results from an experimental study in Italy
  102. Extending PubMed searches to ClinicalTrials.gov through a machine learning approach for systematic reviews
  103. Measuring Caloric Intake at the Population Level (NOTION): Protocol for an Experimental Study (Preprint)
  104. Temporal and regional trends of choking injuries in children in Italy, 2001–2013
  105. Does Love Really Make Mothers Blind? A Large Transcontinental Study on Mothers' Awareness About Their Children's Weight
  106. Time trends in first hospitalization for heart failure in a community-based population
  107. A novel approach for comparing patterns of foreign body injuries across countries: A case study comparing European Countries and Bosnia and Herzegovina
  108. Helmet use in preventing acute concussive symptoms in recreational vehicle related head trauma
  109. Anchoring Vignettes in EQ-5D-5L Questionnaire: Validation of a New Instrument
  110. An Epistemological View on Risk Exposure Assessment: A Case Study
  111. A Social Network Approach to the Estimation of Perceived Quality of Health Care
  112. Wearable Devices for Caloric Intake Assessment: State of Art and Future Developments
  113. Electronic Questionnaires Design and Implementation
  114. Optimizing Protein Intake and Nitrogen Balance (OPINiB) in Adult Critically Ill Patients: A Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
  115. Evaluating therapeutic effect on WOMAC subscales in osteoarthritis RCTs: When model choice matters
  116. Remote control improves quality of life in elderly pacemaker patients versus standard ambulatory-based follow-up
  117. Patient and Process Factors Associated With Type of First Neuroimaging and Delayed Diagnosis in Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke
  118. Treatment with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors restores coronary microvascular function in young patients with severe psoriasis
  119. Impact of myocardial staining on In-hospital outcome after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in the Padua Registry on ST-elevation myocardial infarction
  120. Immune Inflammation and Disease Progression in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  121. School personnel's self-efficacy in managing food allergy and anaphylaxis
  122. Injuries due to foreign body aspirations in Georgia: A prevention perspective
  123. ONE YEAR CLINICAL RESULTS OF THE ECHO GUIDED TRANSAPICAL MITRAL VALVE REPAIR WITH NEOCHORD IMPLANTATION
  124. Social support to elderly pacemaker patients improves device acceptance and quality of life
  125. Complicaciones debido a la aspiración de cuerpos extraños en niños
  126. Complications in Children From Foreign Bodies in the Airway
  127. From bench to bedside: Can the improvements in left ventricular assist device design mitigate adverse events and increase survival?
  128. Symptoms associated with button batteries injuries in children: An epidemiological review
  129. The Coagulative Profile of Cyanotic Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: The Role of Whole Blood Preoperative Thromboelastometry on Postoperative Transfusion Requirement
  130. Analysis of early and long-term outcomes of acute type A aortic dissection according to the new international aortic arch surgery study group recommendations
  131. Reply to Are Worries and Concerns Information Side Effects?
  132. Extracorporeal life support in cardiogenic shock: Impact of acute versus chronic etiology on outcome
  133. Phenotypic expression is a prerequisite for malignant arrhythmic events and sudden cardiac death in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
  134. Is Internet use associated with anxiety in patients with and at risk for cardiomyopathy?
  135. Late Electrical and Mechanical Remodeling After Atrial Septal Defect Closure in Children: Surgical Versus Percutaneous Approach
  136. Multidimensional analysis of food-allergic children and adolescents’ self-concept: A comparison with a healthy matched sample
  137. Risk of atrial fibrillation among bisphosphonate users: a multicenter, population-based, Italian study
  138. What Is the Value Given by Consumers to Nutritional Label Information? Results from a Large Investigation in Europe
  139. Foreign Body in the Larynx in an Infant
  140. Cuerpo extraño en laringe en un lactante
  141. Higher Levels of Knowledge Reduce Health Care Costs in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  142. DOES PRE-EXISTING AORTIC REGURGITATION PROTECTS FROM DEATH IN PATIENTS WHO DEVELOP PARAVALVULAR LEAK AFTER TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION?
  143. Oxidative status in different settings and with different methodological approaches compared by Receiver Operating Characteristic curve analysis
  144. Networking and data sharing reduces hospitalization cost of heart failure: the experience of GISC study
  145. Trends in RCT nursing research over 20 years: mind the gap
  146. Prebiotic Effect of an Infant Formula Supplemented with Galacto-Oligosaccharides: Randomized Multicenter Trial
  147. An epidemiological study investigating the relationship between chorangioma and infantile hemangioma
  148. Public Health Implications of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Burden
  149. Cross-Regional Analysis of Multiple Factors Associated with Childhood Obesity in India: A National or Local Challenge?
  150. Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Effect of Television Advertising on Food Intake in Children: Why Such a Sensitive Topic is Lacking Top-Level Evidence?
  151. Children Obesity from Global Determinants to Local Consequences: The Indian Perspective
  152. Effectiveness of oral bisphosphonates for primary prevention of osteoporotic fractures
  153. Physical Activity Patterns Among School Children in India
  154. Measuring Brand Awareness as a Component of Eating Habits in Indian Children: The Development of the IBAI Questionnaire
  155. Food Packaged with Toys: An Investigation on Potential Obesogenic Effects in Indian Children
  156. Is My Kid Out of Size? Indian Mothers’ Desirability Bias in Evaluation of Their Children’s Weight
  157. User-only design to assess drug effectiveness in clinical practice: application to bisphosphonates and secondary prevention of fractures
  158. Cost-effectiveness of early detection of atrial fibrillation via remote control of implanted devices
  159. Dynamic Bayesian Networks to predict sequences of organ failures in patients admitted to ICU
  160. Allergic Rhinitis in Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial Targeted at Symptoms
  161. The Burden of Inappropriate Emergency Department Pediatric Visits: Why Italy Needs an Urgent Reform
  162. Oral bisphosphonates do not increase the risk of severe upper gastrointestinal complications: a nested case–control study
  163. Cost-effectiveness analysis of beta-blockersvsendoscopic surveillance in patients with cirrhosis and small varices
  164. Risk of Severe Upper Gastrointestinal Complications among Oral Bisphosphonate Users
  165. Evaluating food front-of-pack labelling: a pan-European survey on consumers’ attitudes toward food labelling
  166. Effect of educational attainment on incidence and mortality for ischemic heart and cerebrovascular diseases: A systematic review and trend estimation
  167. Compound and Digenic Heterozygosity Predicts Lifetime Arrhythmic Outcome and Sudden Cardiac Death in Desmosomal Gene-Related Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
  168. Seasonal variations in injury rates in children: evidence from a 10-year study in the Veneto Region, Italy
  169. Investigating the obesogenic effects of marketing snacks with toys: an experimental study in Latin America
  170. Hospitalization rates and cost in severe or complicated obesity: an Italian cohort study
  171. Demora en el diagnóstico de un cuerpo extraño en la vía aérea en los niños. Serie de casos
  172. Cuerpos extraños en el esófago en los niños. Serie de casos
  173. How Mothers Cook in Chile: an Experimental Exercise to use Food Labels to Control Portion Sizes
  174. Editorial - Evaluating Impact of High-Cost Cancer Drugs at Regional Level: The Case of Veneto (Italy)
  175. Cost Impact of Bevacizumab and Cetuximab Associated Therapies in Colorectal Cancer in Veneto Region
  176. Economic Impact of Sunitinib and Sorafenib Use in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Treatment in Veneto Region, Italy
  177. Evaluating Trastuzumab and Lapatinib's Economic Impact in the Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer in Veneto Region Cohort
  178. IDENTIFICATION OF PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY WHO COULD BE CONSIDERED FOR EARLY ICD IMPLANTATION
  179. Comparing models for quantitative risk assessment: an application to the European Registry of foreign body injuries in children
  180. Modeling healthcare costs in simultaneous presence of asymmetry, heteroscedasticity and correlation
  181. An Encapsulated Juice Powder Concentrate Improves Markers of Pulmonary Function and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Heavy Smokers
  182. Naïve Bayes classifiers with feature selection to predict hospitalization and complications due to objects swallowing and ingestion among European children
  183. Short-term health service utilization after a paediatric injury: a population-based study
  184. Nutritional behavior and attitudes in food allergic children and their mothers
  185. Foreign Bodies in a Pediatric Emergency Department in South Africa
  186. Inhaled foreign bodies in children: A global perspective on their epidemiological, clinical, and preventive aspects
  187. Scale-Up Approach in CATI Surveys for Estimating the Number of Foreign Body Injuries in the Aero-Digestive Tract in Children
  188. Is blood glucose on admission a predictor of mortality in adult acute pneumonia?
  189. A Before-after Assessment of the Efficacy of Narivent® in the Treatment of Symptoms Associated with Allergic Rhinitis in a Paediatric Population
  190. Economic Impact of Treatments for Controlling Symptoms Associated with Rhinitis: an Evaluation of Narivent® vs Standard Therapy
  191. Long-term Efficacy of Narivent® in the Treatment of Nasal Congestion
  192. Short-term Efficacy of Narivent® in the Treatment of Nasal Congestion
  193. Editorial - The Burden of Nasal Congestion: Short- and Long-Term Efficacy of Medical Device-Based Approaches as an Adjuvant Therapy Targeting Symptoms
  194. Predicting severity of pathological scarring due to burn injuries: a clinical decision making tool using Bayesian networks
  195. Familial environment in high- and middle–low-income municipalities: A survey in Italy to understand the distribution of potentially obesogenic factors
  196. Quality of Electronic Medical Records
  197. Nasal obstruction as a key symptom in allergic rhinitis: efficacy and safety of a medical device in children
  198. Assessing the risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw due to bisphosphonate therapy in the secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures
  199. Foreign Bodies in Non-Life Threatening Locations: A Risk Analysis of Nose and Ears Foreign Bodies in European Children
  200. Magnetic FB injuries: An old yet unresolved hazard
  201. Retrospective study on Romanian foreign bodies injuries in children
  202. Foreign bodies in children: A comparison between Argentina and Europe
  203. Foreign bodies injuries in children: Analysis of Thailand data
  204. Proper packaging for food and no-food products to avoid injuries
  205. Fostering design for avoiding small parts in commonly used objects
  206. Foreign bodies injuries: A strong unique pathway linking ORL and public health
  207. Foreign bodies in the airways: A meta-analysis of published papers
  208. Modeling the risk: Innovative approaches to understand and quantify the risk of severe FB injury
  209. Stationery injuries in the upper aerodigestive system: Results from the Susy Safe Project
  210. Toys in the upper aerodigestive tract: New evidence on their risk as emerging from the Susy Safe Study
  211. Management of foreign bodies in the airway and oesophagus
  212. Food foreign body injuries
  213. Non food foreign body injuries
  214. The Susy Safe project overview after the first four years of activity
  215. Robust Gamma regression models for the analysis of health care cost data
  216. Understanding the epidemiology of foreign body injuries in children using a data-driven Bayesian network
  217. How Can Optimization of Medical Treatment Avoid Unnecessary Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implantations in Patients With Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Presenting With “SCD-HeFT Criteria?”
  218. Multifunctional food and traditional ingredients: a competitive marriage
  219. Multifunctional food: medical evidence and methodological notes on substantiating health claims
  220. Probiotics do not significantly reduce nosocomial pneumonia
  221. The "Snacking Child" and its social network: some insights from an italian survey
  222. Economic burden of injuries in children: Cohort study based on administrative data in a northwestern Italian region
  223. Effect of alcohol consumption in prenatal life, childhood, and adolescence on child development
  224. Toys in the upper aerodigestive tract: Evidence on their risk as emerging from the ESFBI study
  225. Dealing with the complexity of health-related risk communication: philosophical and cognitive aspects behind “informed consent” within a person-centered context
  226. Design considerations on the proof of efficacy of functional foods
  227. Epidemiology of foreign bodies injuries in Ecuador: A first look based on a single centre experience
  228. Intermittent Subglottic Secretion Drainage and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia
  229. Foreign bodies inhalation as a research field: What can we learn from a bibliometric perspective over 30 years of literature?
  230. Group sequential and adaptive designs: a novel, promising tool for nursing research
  231. Regression models for analyzing costs and their determinants in health care: an introductory review
  232. Integrating stress-related ventricular functional and angiographic data in preventive cardiology: a unified approach implementing a Bayesian network
  233. Nasal foreign bodies: the experience of the Buenos Aires pediatric otolaryngology clinic
  234. Effects of Encapsulated Fruit and Vegetable Juice Powder Concentrates on Oxidative Status in Heavy Smokers
  235. A Genetic Perspective on Nutritional Profiles: Do We Still Need Them?
  236. Studying factors related to pressure ulcers prevention: a marginal scale model for modelling heterogeneity among hospitals
  237. Understanding the influence of the snack definition on the association between snacking and obesity: a review
  238. Managing peripheral venous catheters: an investigation on the efficacy of a strategy for the implementation of evidence-based guidelines
  239. Foreign body injuries in children: need for a step forward against an old yet neglected epidemic
  240. Impact of initial pattern of care on hospital costs in a cohort of incident lung cancer cases
  241. Planning a Bayesian early-phase phase I/II study for human vaccines in HER2 carcinomas
  242. Usefulness of frailty profile for targeting older heart failure patients in disease management programs: a cost-effectiveness, pilot study
  243. Taking decisions on expenditure for high-cost drugs at the regional level: a model for evaluating the overall impact of Trastuzumab in the Veneto Region of Italy
  244. SUI AND TVT IUS ND TVT SECURE SYSTEM: A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL MULTICENTRIC STUDY. MORBIDITY AND SHORT-TERM PERCENTAGES OF SUCCESS
  245. Understanding coronary atherosclerosis in relation to obesity: is getting the distribution of body fatness using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry worth the effort? A novel perspective using Bayesian Networks
  246. Prognostic impact of familial screening in dilated cardiomyopathy
  247. Using VLAD scores to have a look insight ICU performance: towards a modelling of the errors
  248. Defining death in donation after circulatory determination of death protocols: A bluish shade of violet
  249. Probiotics to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia: No robust evidence from randomized controlled trials
  250. An economic evaluation of water birth: the cost-effectiveness of mother well-being
  251. Impact of advanced exercise ECG analysis on cost of coronary artery disease management
  252. Impact of selective decontamination of the digestive tract on multiple organ dysfunction syndrome: Systematic review of randomized controlled trials*
  253. Information Extraction Approaches to Unconventional Data Sources for “Injury Surveillance System”: the Case of Newspapers Clippings
  254. Adaptive Bayesian Networks for quantitative risk assessment of foreign body injuries in children
  255. The effectiveness of a school-based substance abuse prevention program: 18-Month follow-up of the EU-Dap cluster randomized controlled trial
  256. SDD, SOD, or oropharyngeal chlorhexidine to prevent pneumonia and to reduce mortality in ventilated patients: which manoeuvre is evidence-based?
  257. Skin-to-Skin Contact After Cesarean Delivery
  258. Semirecumbent position to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia is not evidence based
  259. PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF A SYSTEMATIC FAMILIAL SCREENING IN IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY. THE EXPERIENCE OF TRIESTE HEART MUSCLE DISEASE
  260. Confectionery consumption and violence
  261. Foreign body aspiration in children: Field report of a German hospital
  262. The impact of record-linkage bias in the Cox model
  263. Ingested foreign bodies causing complications and requiring hospitalization in European children: Results from the ESFBI study
  264. Do Antiglaucomatous Prostaglandins Induce Melanogenesis in Human Conjunctiva?
  265. Determination of serum holotranscobalamin concentrations with the AxSYM active B12 assay: cut-off point evaluation in the clinical laboratory
  266. Foreign Bodies in the Oesophagus: The Experience of the Buenos Aires Paediatric ORL Clinic
  267. Trend of the main clinical characteristics and pacing modality in patients treated by pacemaker: data from the Italian Pacemaker Registry for the quinquennium 2003-07
  268. Flexibility of Bayesian generalized linear mixed models for oral health research
  269. Question Order and Interviewer Effects in CATI Scale-up Surveys
  270. Non-invasive risk stratification of coronary artery disease: an evaluation of some commonly used statistical classifiers in terms of predictive accuracy and clinical usefulness
  271. Using Data Mining Techniques in Monitoring Diabetes Care. The Simpler the Better?
  272. Bayesian networks for pathological scarring due to burn injuries
  273. A decision-tree model to estimate the impact on cost-effectiveness of a venous thromboembolism prophylaxis guideline
  274. Two-tier analysis of histone H2AX phosphorylation allows the identification of Ataxia Telangiectasia heterozygotes
  275. Monitoring the performance of intensive care units using the variable life-adjusted display: a simulation study to explore its applicability and efficiency
  276. Use of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator in Inherited Arrhythmogenic Diseases: Data from Italian ICD Registry for the Years 2001-6
  277. Information on Center Characteristics as Costs' Determinants in Multicenter Clinical Trials: Is Modeling Center Effect Worth the Effort?
  278. Effect on Quality of Life of Different Accelerated Diagnostic Protocols for Management of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain
  279. Extreme regression models for characterizing high-cost patients
  280. Foreign bodies in the ears causing complications and requiring hospitalization in children 0–14 age: Results from the ESFBI study
  281. “Abscess” as a perioperative risk factor for paresthesia after third molar extraction under general anesthesia
  282. Knowledge, practice and faith on Total Quality Management principles among workers in the Health Care System: Evidence from an Italian investigation
  283. Factors affecting hospitalization costs in Type 2 diabetic patients
  284. Impact of the main implantable cardioverter-defibrillator trials in clinical practice: data from the Italian ICD Registry for the years 2005-07
  285. Preventing foreign body injuries in children: a key role to play for the injury community
  286. Integrated audit as a means to implement unit protocols: a randomized and controlled study
  287. Proper modeling strategies selection for the assessment of post-infarction costs
  288. Normal Glucose Values Are Associated With a Lower Risk of Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
  289. Survival models for cost data: The forgotten additive approach
  290. Radiofrequency ablation of drug-refractory atrial fibrillation: an observational study comparing 'ablate and pace' with pulmonary vein isolation
  291. Direct Stenting after Thrombus Removal before Primary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction
  292. Truncal fat determined by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry is an independent predictor of coronary artery disease extension
  293. Web-based tool for injury risk assessment of foreign body injuries in children
  294. Quality of life and behavioral compliance in cardiac rehabilitation patients: a longitudinal survey
  295. The Stress-Recovery Index for the risk stratification of women with typical chest pain
  296. Some notes on parametric link functions in clinical research
  297. Computing hospitalization rates in presence of repeated events: impact and countermeasures to avoid misinterpretation
  298. Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Pathologic Scarring After Burn Wounds
  299. Are Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardias Predictive of Major Arrhythmias in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy on Optimal Medical Treatment?
  300. Foreign bodies in the upper airways causing complications and requiring hospitalization in children aged 0–14 years: results from the ESFBI study
  301. Evaluating effectiveness of preoperative testing procedure: some notes on modelling strategies in multi-centre surveys
  302. Heart failure and sudden death in dilated cardiomyopathy: a hidden competition we should not forget about when modelling mortality
  303. A rapid flow cytometry test based on histone H2AX phosphorylation for the sensitive and specific diagnosis of ataxia telangiectasia
  304. Predicting Severity of Foreign Body Injuries in Children in Upper Airways: An Approach Based on Regression Trees
  305. Risk factors and geographical heterogeneity in unintentional home injuries incidence rate: new evidence based on Multiscopo Survey in Italy
  306. Use of the scale-up methods in injury prevention research: An empirical assessment to the case of choking in children
  307. Air pollution effects on the respiratory health of the resident adult population in Turin, Italy
  308. Comparison of Early Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography and Exercise Electrocardiographic Testing for Management of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Chest Pain
  309. Heritability of Corneal Curvature and Astigmatism
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