• Hospital Length of Stay and Readmission Rate for Neurosurgical Patients 

  Ansari, Shaheryar F.; Yan, Hong; Zou, Jian; Worth, Robert M.; Barbaro, Nicholas M. (Oxford, 2018-02)

  BACKGROUND Hospital readmission rate has become a major indicator of quality of care, with penalties given to hospitals with high rates of readmission. At the same time, insurers are increasing pressure for greater ...
• Experiences of Female and Male Medical Students With Death, Dying, and Palliative Care: One Size Does Not Fit All 

  Hoffman, Leslie A.; Mehta, Rakesh; Vu, T. Robert; Frankel, Richard M. (Sage, 2018-06)

  Background: Medical students learn about death, dying, and palliative care (DDPC) through formal curricular offerings and informal clinical experiences; however, the lessons learned in the clinic may be at odds with the ...
• Role of medial hypothalamic orexin system in panic, phobia and hypertension 

  Abreu, Aline R.; Molosh, Andrei I.; Johnson, Philip L.; Shekhar, Anantha (Elsevier, 2018)

  Orexin has been implicated in a number of physiological functions, including arousal, regulation of sleep, energy metabolism, appetitive behaviors, stress, anxiety, fear, panic, and cardiovascular control. In this review, ...
• Circulating Thrombospondin-2 enhances prediction of malignant intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm 

  Simpson, Rachel E.; Yip-Schneider, Michele T.; Wu, Huangbing; Fan, Hao; Liu, Ziyue; Korc, Murray; Zhang, Jianjun; Schmidt, C. Max (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background IPMNs are cystic pancreatic lesions with variable malignant potential. Thrombospondin-2 (THBS2)—an endogenous, anti-angiogenic matrix glycoprotein—may modulate tumor progression. We hypothesized that circulating ...
• Comparisons of diabetic retinopathy events associated with glucose‐lowering drugs in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A network meta‐analysis 

  Tang, Huilin; Li, Guangyao; Zhao, Ying; Wang, Fei; Gower, Emily W.; Shi, Luwen; Wang, Tiansheng (Wiley, 2018)

  Aim To assess the comparative effects of glucose‐lowering drugs (GLDs) on the risk of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods We systematically searched Cochrane Central ...

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