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Poem: Waiting for the barbarian Corona viruses

Eleftherios P. Diamandis

Eleftherios P. Diamandis

Institution: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Cana

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Exposure to Burn Pit Emissions and Respiratory Diseases?

John R. Balmes

John R. Balmes

Institution: Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

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Shifting the Lens on Lung Cancer Screening Inequities

Lisa Carter-Bawa

Lisa Carter-Bawa

Institution: Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute, Center for Discovery & Innovation at Hackensack Meridian Health, Nutley, New Jersey

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The Power of Community Engagement and Patient Voices

Arshiya A. Baig

Arshiya A. Baig

Institution: Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

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Post Hoc Bias in Treatment Decisions

Donald A. Redelmeier,

Donald A. Redelmeier

Institution: Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Eldar Shafir

Eldar Shafir

Institution: Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

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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

Matthias Karst

Matthias Karst

Institution: Pain Clinic, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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Measuring trust in one’s physician: A scoping review

Linda R. Weber

Linda R. Weber

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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

Alon Abraham,

Alon Abraham

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Vera Bril

Vera Bril

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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

Elin Kjelle,

Elin Kjelle

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Ingrid Øfsti Brandsæter,

Ingrid Øfsti Brandsæter

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Eivind Richter Andersen,

Eivind Richter Andersen

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Bjørn Morten Hofmann

Bjørn Morten Hofmann

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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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Rural household vulnerability and COVID-19: Evidence from India

Junyan Tian

Junyan Tian

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected vulnerable households’ livelihoods in developing countries. Using high-frequency phone survey data from the World Bank, we assess rural Indian households’ vulnerability and poverty status during the pandemic. Results reveal that over three-fifths of Indian rural households are vulnerable to poverty in the context of COVID-19, despit...
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