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Assessing the suitability of sets-based approaches: estimating the discriminative power of risk models for ordinal outcome treatments
Conclusions By conducting Monte Carlo simulations, it was concluded that the measure proposed herein is a better choice for clinical use because of the asymmetry of the predicted probabilities of groups.
Source: International Health - January 16, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Chang, C.-H., Lin, L.-C., Chen, I.-C., Yen, C.-H. Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Blood transfusion services for patients with sickle cell disease in Nigeria
Conclusion Current efforts of Nigerian public hospitals to provide safe blood and CTT fall short of best practice. Provision of apheresis machines, improvement of voluntary non-remunerated donor drive, screening for red cell antigens and antibodies, and availability of iron chelators would significantly improve SCD care in Nigeria.
Source: International Health - September 27, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Diaku-Akinwumi, I. N., Abubakar, S. B., Adegoke, S. A., Adeleke, S., Adewoye, O., Adeyemo, T., Akinbami, A., Akinola, N. O., Akinsulie, A., Akinyoola, A., Aneke, J., Awwalu, S., Babadoko, A., Brown, B., Ejike, O., Emodi, I., George, I., Girei, A., Hassan, Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Dynamic analysis of blood pressure changes in progressive cerebral infarction
Conclusions Hypertension history of more than 5 years is an important risk factor for progressive cerebral infarction. Both the elevation of systolic blood pressure 16 h to 5 d after admission and abnormal circadian blood pressure are associated with the disease progression.
Source: International Health - July 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Zhao, M., Zhang, L., Wang, Z., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wei, H., Li, R., Du, Y. Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: research