Search Results for: Registries

February 12, 2025February 12, 2025

Completeness of tuberculosis case notification in Ghana: record linkage and capture-recapture analysis of three TB registries.

Publication date: Feb 12, 2025 In many low and middle-income countries, Tuberculosis (TB) surveillance systems miss out on reporting on detected cases suggesting gaps in the TB case detection and ... Read more

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025

An ontology-based rare disease common data model harmonising international registries, FHIR, and Phenopackets.

Dr. Richard A. Blevins Literature, Informatics Literature

Publication date: Feb 08, 2025 Although rare diseases (RDs) affect over 260 million individuals worldwide, low data quality and scarcity challenge effective care and research. This work aims to harmonise ... Read more

March 22, 2025March 22, 2025

COVID-19 in Norwegian ICUs 2020-2023: Patient characteristics, management, and outcomes-A nationwide prospective observational study.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Apr 01, 2025 During the COVID-19 pandemic, Norway experienced successive waves of hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, each with distinct characteristics, including patient demographics, medical therapies, ... Read more

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025

Spectrum of cancer risk in Asian American and Pacific Islander solid organ transplant recipients.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: Mar 18, 2025 Solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) have increased cancer risk, which may differ across racial groups. Cancer risk among Asian American and Pacific Islander SOTRs is ... Read more

March 20, 2025March 20, 2025

The relative age effect on antidepressant use in children and adults.

Major Depressive Disorder Literature

Publication date: Jun 01, 2025 Having young relative age in school is an identified risk factor for depression among schoolchildren, but it is unclear if this risk remains in adulthood. ... Read more

March 18, 2025March 18, 2025

Poorer survival for patients with inflammatory arthritis treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors for melanoma.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: Mar 16, 2025 Patients with inflammatory arthritis treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for melanoma face unique challenges, including disease flares and reduced treatment efficacy. Evidence on the ... Read more

March 15, 2025March 15, 2025

Accuracy of computer-aided chest x-ray interpretation for tuberculosis screening in people with diabetes mellitus: A systematic review.

Tuberculosis Literature

Publication date: Mar 14, 2025 Diabetes mellitus significantly increases the risk of tuberculosis, and active tuberculosis screening of people with diabetes mellitus has been advocated by WHO and other international ... Read more

March 15, 2025March 15, 2025

Exposure to disulfiram and incidence of parkinsonism.

Parkinson's Disease Literature

Publication date: Mar 12, 2025 Case reports implicate disulfiram treatment in causing parkinsonism, but these observations lack epidemiological confirmation. Aim of the present study was to estimate the risk of ... Read more

March 13, 2025March 13, 2025

Cancer incidence in male and female Canadian Armed Forces personnel and Veterans enrolled between 1976 and 2016: a retrospective population-based cohort study.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: Mar 12, 2025 To describe rates of overall and type-specific primary cancers in Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel and Veterans with a first enrolment in the CAF between ... Read more

March 11, 2025March 11, 2025

What is the role of paternal genetic transmission on risk for PTSD and internalizing and externalizing disorders?

Major Depressive Disorder Literature

Publication date: Mar 10, 2025 We utilize a novel contrastive genetic-epidemiological method, the Maternal Half-Sibling Families with Discordant Fathers (MHSFDF) design, to examine cross-generational genetic transmission of posttraumatic stress disorder ... Read more