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Trial registry name ClinicalTrials.gov URL https//clinicaltrials.gov Registration number NCT02913326.

The majority of patients with cerebral venous thrombosis, anticoagulated with either dabigatran or warfarin for six months, showed partial or complete recanalization of occluded sinuses and veins at the end of the treatment.Clinical trial registration Trial registry name ClinicalTrials.gov URL https//clinicaltrials.gov Registration number NCT02913326.

The Paramedic Acute Stroke Treatment Assessment (PASTA) trial evaluated an enhanced emergency care pathway which aimed to facilitate thrombolysis in hospital. A pre-planned health economic evaluation was included. The main results showed no statistical evidence of a difference in either thrombolysis volume (primary outcome) or 90-day dependency. However, counter-intuitive findings were observed with the intervention group showing fewer thrombolysis treatments but less dependency.

Cost-effectiveness of the PASTA intervention was examined relative to standard care.

A within trial cost-utility analysis estimated mean costs and quality-adjusted life years over 90 days' time horizon. Costs were derived from resource utilization data for individual trial participants. Quality-adjusted life years were calculated by mapping modified Rankin scale scores to EQ-5D-3L utility tariffs. A post-hoc subgroup analysis examined cost-effectiveness when trial hospitals were divided into compliant and non-compliant with rec18919.A contentious criminal justice policy issue in recent times has been community management policies for individuals convicted of sexual offenses. This systematic review attained professionals' views, areas of concern, and recommendations for community management policies. It went beyond the extant literature by exploring perceptions of heterogenous professional groups involved in the criminal justice system. Of the 25 studies, 12 were quantitative, nine qualitative, and four mixed methods, and included custodial and community correctional officers, probation officers, psychologists, police officers, prosecutors, lawmakers, and academics. Zenidolol in vitro Overall, professionals mostly supported the policies, but had less support for public registries and community notification. Four key issues associated with the policies were apparent problems with actuarial risk assessment tools, difficulties accessing information with partner agencies, limited resources, and lack of education among the public. Within this, four recommendations were identified. These findings offer a valuable resource for researchers, along with government and policy professionals tasked with overseeing community management policies.

Post-stroke fatigue affects up to 92% of stroke survivors, causing significant burden. Educational cognitive behavioral therapy fatigue groups show positive results in other health conditions.

FASTER will determine if educational cognitive behavioral therapy fatigue management group reduces subjective fatigue in adults post-stroke.

Prospective, multi-centre, two-arm, single-blind, phase III RCT (parallel, superiority design), with blinded assessments at baseline, six weeks, and three months post-program commencement. With

 = 200 (100 per group, 20% drop-out), the trial will have 85% power (2-sided,

 = 0.05) to detect minimally clinically important differences of 0.60 (SD = 1.27) in fatigue severity scale and 1.70 points (SD = 3.6) in multidimensional fatigue inventory-20 at three months.

Primary outcomes are self-reported fatigue severity and dimensionality

post-intervention (six weeks). Secondary outcomes include subjective fatigue at three months, and health-related quality of life, disability, sleep, pain, mood, service use/costs, and caregiver burden at each follow-up.

FASTER will determine whether

reduces fatigue post-stroke.Registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12619000626167).

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Poststroke cricopharyngeal dysfunction has been reported to occur in 50% of brainstem strokes; however, cricopharyngeal dysfunction also occurs commonly in patients with supratentorial stroke. The hemispheric neuroanatomical location of this dysfunction has not been clearly identified.

We aimed to analyze the relationship between cricopharyngeal dysfunction and supratentorial lesion location in poststroke patients through this retrospective case-control voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping study.

Cricopharyngeal dysfunction was diagnosed when the residue after swallowing (pyriform sinus) accounted for more than 25% of volume of pyriform sinus. Medical records and the video fluoroscopic swallowing studies of first-ever stroke patients who were admitted to our hospital during acute to subacute phase from 2009 to 2019 were reviewed. After propensity score matching to reduce the likelihood of selection bias, 50 patients per group were included in the cricopharyngeal dysfunction and control groups. We used a

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