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Atrophic Postacne Scar Treatment: Narrative Review


Acne scarring is a frequent complication of acne. Scars negatively impact psychosocial and physical well‐being. Optimal treatments significantly improve the appearance, quality of life, and self-esteem of people with scarring. A wide range of interventions have been proposed for acne scars. This narrative review aimed to focus on facial atrophic scarring interventions. The management of acne sca...
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Poem: Waiting for the barbarian Corona viruses


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Exposure to Burn Pit Emissions and Respiratory Diseases?


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Shifting the Lens on Lung Cancer Screening Inequities


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The Power of Community Engagement and Patient Voices


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Post Hoc Bias in Treatment Decisions


Importance A goal of health care is to reduce symptoms and improve health status, whereas continuing dubious treatments can contribute to complacency, discourage the search for alternatives, and lead to shortfalls in care. Objective To test a potential bias in intuitive reasoning following a marginal improvement in symptoms after a dubious treatment (post hoc bias).Design, Setting, and Particip...
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Addressing the Emotional Body in Patients With Chronic Pain


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Measuring trust in one’s physician: A scoping review


Trust in one’s physician drives positive health practices. However, the conceptualization and subsequent operationalization of trust have become clouded due to the multitude of approaches that have resulted in several different measures with varied dimensions and indicators. The objectives of this scoping review were: 1) to discover any new developments in the measurement of trust, 2) to identif...
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Electrophysiological grading scale for polyneuropathy severity


Objective To establish a simple electrophysiological scale for patients with distal symmetric axonal polyneuropathy, in order to promote standardized and informative electrodiagnostic reporting, and understand the complex relationship between electrophysiological and clinical polyneuropathy severity. Methods We included 76 patients with distal symmetric axonal polyneuropathy, from a cohort ...
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Reducing low-value imaging - stakeholders’ assessment of an intervention to improve imaging services


Abstract Background An intervention to reduce low-value magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was designed and implemented in private imaging centres in Norway in October 2022. The intervention used return letters for poor referrals of MRI of the lower back, brain and knee at private imaging centres in Norway. The study aimed to investigate key stakeholders’ experien...
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