Reference intervals, which define an interval in which a specific proportion of measurements from a healthy population are expected to fall, are commonly used in medical practice. Synthesizing informa...
With the availability of individual participant data (IPD), non-parametric methods can be used to estimate reference intervals without any distributional assumptions. Furthermore, patient-level covari...
We compared several non-parametric bootstrap methods through simulation studies to account for within-study correlation. Under fixed effects model, we recommend keeping the studies fixed and only rand...
We proposed to use the quantile regression in the IPD meta-analysis to estimate the reference interval. Based on the simulation results, we identify an optimal bootstrap strategy for estimating the un...
Healthcare expenditure of road traffic injuries in China has not been adequately investigated so far. We aim to provide comprehensive information about the hospitalization costs of inpatients who suff...
We extracted the data of all inpatients (n = 60535) with road traffic injuries during the year 2019 from Chinese National Health Statistics Network Reporting System database in Hunan, China. We calcul...
The median hospitalization cost was $853.48, and the median length of hospital stay was 9 days. Vulnerable road users accounted for 84.9 % of all cases. Medicine cost is the first driver of hospitaliz...
Road traffic injuries cause huge healthcare costs for victims, most of whom are vulnerable road users. The total cost of hospitalization is incurred mainly for medicine, consumables, diagnosis, medica...
New-onset or worsening tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is a well-established complication encountered after cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). However, there are limited and conflicting data...
Schizophrenia patients often show obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and their presence has been associated with poorer prognosis. However, the impact of OCS/O...
A systematic review and meta-analysis (SRMA) of studies comparing the severity of psychotic symptoms among schizophrenia patients with and without OCS/OCD was performed. Standardized mean difference (...
Sixty-seven studies involving 7740 patients were included. Patients with schizophrenia and OCS/OCD showed a slightly higher severity of positive (SMD = 0.17, p value = 0.0089) and global psychotic sym...
Comorbid OCS/OCD in schizophrenia has, at most, a minor impact on psychotic severity. Variability in this effect was considerable and was poorly explained by the covariates analyzed....
Despite growing published evidence of the merits of endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) instead of shunt revision at the time of shunt malfunction (secondary ETV), concerns about its efficacy and c...
In accordance with the PRISMA guidelines, systematic searches of Medline, Embase, and Cochrane Central were undertaken from database inception to September 7, 2022. ETV success was defined as the lack...
Sixteen studies reporting on 584 patients who underwent secondary ETV for shunt malfunction were included in the meta-analysis. The overall pooled mean (95% CI) age was 6.1 (3-9) years, and 57.0% of p...
This meta-analysis demonstrates that secondary ETV after shunt malfunction in pediatric patients is a feasible option with acceptable success rates and low complication rates. Clinical trial registrat...
In order to solve the complex and recurrent problem of chronic pelvic inflammation disease (CPID) in the process of the clinical treatment, a method of understanding the influencing factors of CPID by...
Based on an analysis of 643 listed firms in clean technology sectors, this study explores the nonlinear impact of the government's environmental attention (GEA) on firms' green innovation by exploitin...
Pakistan is currently experiencing a double burden of disease. Families with members having both communicable and noncommunicable diseases are at a greater risk of impoverishment due to enormous out-o...
The study extracted a sample of 6,775 households with at least one member experiencing both communicable and noncommunicable diseases from the Household Integrated Economic Survey 2018-19. The dataset...
Overall, 28.5% of households had double disease in 2018-19. The households with uneducated heads, male heads, outpatient healthcare, patients availing public sector healthcare services, and rural and ...
The coexistence of communicable and noncommunicable diseases is associated with excessive private healthcare costs in Pakistan. The results call for addressing the variations in financial costs associ...
There is a rapidly growing body of evidence for the application of virtual reality (VR) in pain management, however, with varying effectiveness. Little is known about patient-related and VR-related fa...
To evaluate the incidence and mortality trend of thyroid cancer, and compare its global incidence trends among different countries by age group and sex....
Data on age-standardized incidence and mortality rate of thyroid cancer among 50 countries were collected from the Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Volume XI; the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and En...
The age-standardized incidence of thyroid cancer was 3.1 and 10.1 cases per 100,000 persons in men and women, respectively. The incidence of thyroid cancer increased in most countries among individual...
An increasing incidence of thyroid cancer was observed in younger subjects in a majority of countries, highlighting the need for more preventive strategies in this population and possible avoidance of...
