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Oropharyngeal infection has long been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), specifically valvular disease and endocarditis. However, the relationship between periodontal disease (PD), with associated infection an...

Abstract Background Bright Light Therapy is effective in improving sleep and circadian rhythms. However, little is known regarding the effects of BioDynamic Lighting. The current study examined whether BioDynamic Lightin...

Abstract Background Montessori education is the oldest and most widely implemented alternative education in the world, yet its effectiveness has not been clearly established. Objectives The primary objective of this revi...

Abstract Background Postoperative junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET) is a frequent, hemodynamically consequential arrhythmia after congenital heart surgery. Ivabradine is increasingly used off-label, but its effectiven...

Abstract Background Procalcitonin (PCT) is an important biomarker for sepsis in human medicine, but there is little information regarding PCT as a biomarker for sepsis in dogs. There are no controlled studies evaluating ...

The propensity score is the probability of treatment assignment conditional on observed baseline characteristics. The propensity score allows one to design and analyze an observational (nonrandomized) study so that it mi...

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine; Public health; Scale (ratio); Epidemiology; Quality assessment; Environmental health; Quality (philosophy); Family medicine; External quality assessment; Internal medicine; Pathology; Epistemology

Presents a discussion of matching, randomization, random sampling, and other methods of controlling extraneous variation. The objective was to specify the benefits of randomization in estimating causal effects of treatme...

<b><i>Background and Objectives:</i></b> There is a substantial body of evidence assessing the effects of equine-assisted therapy on physiological and psychological aspects of individuals with dis...