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Ovarian Function Recovery During Anastrozole in Breast Cancer Patients With Chemotherapy-Induced Ovarian Function Failure.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute
BACKGROUND: Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are given as adjuvant therapy for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer in postmenopausal women, also to those with chemotherapy-induced ovarian function failure. The current analysis reports on endocrine data...

Identifying reports of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) via a hybrid machine learning and crowdsourcing approach.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVES: Identifying all published reports of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is an important aim, but it requires extensive manual effort to separate RCTs from non-RCTs, even using current machine learning (ML) approaches. We aimed to make th...

Limited Evidence for Robot-assisted Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Surgical laparoscopy, endoscopy & percutaneous techniques
PURPOSE: To evaluate available evidence on robot-assisted surgery compared with open and laparoscopic surgery.

[NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN NEURO-REHABILITATION: ROBOT MEDIATED THERAPY IN CONDITONS POST CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IMPAIRMENTS].

Ideggyogyaszati szemle
Decreasing the often-seen multiple disabilities as a consequence of central nervous system impairments requires broadening of the tools of rehabilitation. A promising opportunity for this purpose is the application of physiotherapy robots. The develo...

Searches for randomized controlled trials of drugs in MEDLINE and EMBASE using only generic drug names compared with searches applied in current practice in systematic reviews.

Research synthesis methods
BACKGROUND: It is unclear which terms should be included in bibliographic searches for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of drugs, and identifying relevant drug terms can be extremely laborious. The aim of our analysis was to determine whether a bi...

Identifying Clinical Study Types from PubMed Metadata: The Active (Machine) Learning Approach.

Studies in health technology and informatics
We examined a process for automating the classification of articles in MEDLINE aimed at minimising manual effort without sacrificing accuracy. From 22,808 articles pertaining to 19 antidepressants, 1000 were randomly selected and manually labelled ac...

[Retreatment strategies for the patients with HCV infection].

Przeglad epidemiologiczny
Despite recent advances in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, especially introduction of combined therapy with pegylated interferons with ribavirin, significant number of patients fails to achieve sustained virologic response. Such patients may be...