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ques and associated reduction in cost, surgical time and overall risk.Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT00116337., NCT01659541, FDA IDE G980267.

The implantation of commercially available phrenic nerve/diaphragm pacers has been available for more than 40 years and has enabled thousands of patients in over 40 countries to achieve freedom from invasive mechanical ventilation.

The cervical approach to implantation of these pacers is described, as are the pros and cons of using this technique compared to intrathoracic and sub-diaphragmatic.

Study design was a retrospective review of 1,522 subjects from the Avery Biomedical Devices (ABD) database who were implanted with the Avery diaphragm pacer. Long term statistics from patients implanted with diaphragm pacers are presented as well.

17% of cervically placed electrodes required at least one replacement compared to 18% of electrodes placed thoracically. Devices implanted cervically show no significant difference in their longevity than those implanted using the thoracic approach (P value of 0.9382 using Two-Sample t-Test). The mean longevity for both approaches was found to be 6.4 years. The majority of electrodes implanted have never required replacement. A majority of CCHS patients were implanted using the thoracic approach and only find it necessary to use the device during sleeping hours. Most of the cervically implanted patients are found to be older at the time of implantation and implanted for diagnoses that require longer daily use of the device.

The cervical approach for the implantation of phrenic nerve/diaphragm pacers is the most minimally invasive, but underutilized, technique that allows for the use of local or monitored anesthesia, does not require entering any body cavities, and keeps incision size small.

The cervical approach for the implantation of phrenic nerve/diaphragm pacers is the most minimally invasive, but underutilized, technique that allows for the use of local or monitored anesthesia, does not require entering any body cavities, and keeps incision size small.This study aimed to assess the effects of a psychodrama-based risk management training program on nurses' knowledge and practices. This study used a mixed methods design; quantitative and qualitative methods were used together with a single group pretest, post-test, and follow-up. The training program, in which the nurses took part, comprised six lessons that were designed using psychodrama methods. The result showed that risk management scores increased significantly after the training. Thus, this training is effective for improving the knowledge and practices of mental health nurses for risk management.Asthma is the most common chronic lower respiratory disease in childhood throughout the world; it is characterized by bronchial hyperreactivity and variable airway obstruction. Asthma is a disorder involving autonomic nervous system, immunologic, and psychologic factors in individuals. This work sought to describe the relationship among stress, coping, and disease control in children with asthma between 6 and 12 years of age. This was a cross-sectional correlational quantitative study with the participation of 280 children with asthma admitted to outpatient consultation and to a hospitalization service at a tier IV health institution in the city of Bogotá. An inverse correlation was found between stress and coping (r = -0.581; p less then .05); between stress and asthma control (r = -0.545¸ p less then .05); and a direct correlation between coping and asthma control (r = 0.759; p less then .05). The results show that children with low stress levels have greater control of their disease and assume functional coping against their health status. The theory of Adaptation to Chronic Health Conditions permitted analyzing children's conduct and behaviors against a health situation. These findings provide evidence for promoting interventions directly to patients with asthma, focusing on patients, families, and schools. Thus, it is possible to improve the quality of health care and strengthen primary health care.Clinical trials with survival endpoints are typically designed to enroll patients for a specified number of years, (usually 2-3 years) with another specified duration of follow-up (usually 2-3 years). Under this scheme, patients who are alive or free of the event of interest at the termination of the study are censored. Consequently, a patient may be censored due to insufficient follow-up duration or due to being lost to follow-up. Potentially, this process could lead to unequal censoring in the treatment arms and lead to inaccurate and adverse conclusions about treatment effects. In this article, using extensive simulation studies, we assess the impact of such censorings on statistical procedures (the generalized logrank tests) for comparing two survival distributions and illustrate our observations by revisiting Mukherjee et al.'s1 findings of cardiovascular events in patients who took Rofecoxib (Vioxx).We conducted this study to determine whether fallopian tube anatomy can predict the likelihood of pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes after tubal sterilization reversal. We built a flexible, non-parametric, multivariate model via generalized additive models to assess the effects of the following tubal parameters observed during tubal reparative surgery tubal lengths; differences in tubal segment location and diameters at the anastomosis sites; and fibrosis of the tubal muscularis. In this study, population, age, and tubal length-in that order-were the primary factors predicting the likelihood of pregnancy. For pregnancy outcomes, tubal length was the most influential predictor of birth and ectopic pregnancy, while age was the primary predictor of miscarriage. Segment location and diameters contributed slightly to the odds of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. Tubal muscularis fibrosis had little apparent effect. This study is the first to show that a statistical learning predictive model based on fallopian tube anatomy can predict pregnancy and pregnancy outcome probabilities after tubal reversal surgery.By collecting multiple sets per subject in microarray data, gene sets analysis requires characterize intra-subject variation using gene expression profiling. For each subject, the data can be written as a matrix with the different subsets of gene expressions (e.g. multiple tumor types) indexing the rows and the genes indexing the columns. To test the assumption of intra-subject (tumor) variation, we present and perform tests of multi-set sphericity and multi-set identity of covariance structures across subjects (tumor types). Olcegepant purchase We demonstrate by both theoretical and empirical studies that the tests have good properties. We applied the proposed tests on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and tested covariance structures for the gene expressions across several tumor types.By combining data across multiple studies, researchers increase sample size, statistical power, and precision for pooled analyses of biomarker-disease associations. However, researchers must adjust for between-study variability in biomarker measurements. Previous research often treats the biomarker measurements from a reference laboratory as a gold standard, even though those measurements are certainly not equal to their true values. This paper addresses measurement error and bias arising from both the reference and study-specific laboratories. We develop two calibration methods, the exact calibration method and approximate calibration method, for pooling biomarker data drawn from nested or matched case-control studies, where the calibration subset is obtained by randomly selecting controls from each contributing study. Simulation studies are conducted to evaluate the empirical performance of the proposed methods. We apply the proposed methods to a pooling project of nested case-control studies to evaluate the association between circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and colorectal cancer risk.Cox's proportional hazards model is the most commonly used model for regression analysis of failure time data and some methods have been developed for its variable selection under different situations. In this paper, we consider a general type of failure time data, case K interval-censored data, that include all of other types discussed as special cases, and propose a unified penalized variable selection procedure. In addition to its generality, another significant feature of the proposed approach is that unlike all of the existing variable selection methods for failure time data, the proposed approach allows dependent censoring, which can occur quite often and could lead to biased or misleading conclusions if not taken into account. For the implementation, a coordinate descent algorithm is developed and the oracle property of the proposed method is established. The numerical studies indicate that the proposed approach works well for practical situations and it is applied to a set of real data arising from Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative study that motivated this study.This paper introduces the event-probability function, a measure of occurrence of an event of interest over time, defined as the instantaneous probability of an event at a given time point conditional on having survived until that point. Unlike the hazard function, the event-probability function is a proper probability. This paper describes properties and interpretation of the event-probability function, presents its connection with other popular functions, such as the hazard and survival functions, proposes practical flexible proportional-odds models for estimating conditional event-probabilities given covariates with possibly censored and truncated observations, discusses the theoretical and computational aspects of parameter estimation, and applies the proposed models for assessing mortality in patients with metastatic renal carcinoma from a randomized clinical trial.Mammographic screening and prophylactic surgery such as risk-reducing salpingo oophorectomy can potentially reduce breast cancer risks among mutation carriers of BRCA families. The evaluation of these interventions is usually complicated by the fact that their effects on breast cancer may change over time and by the presence of competing risks. We introduce a correlated competing risks model to model breast and ovarian cancer risks within BRCA1 families that accounts for time-varying covariates. Different parametric forms for the effects of time-varying covariates are proposed for more flexibility and a correlated gamma frailty model is specified to account for the correlated competing events.We also introduce a new ascertainment correction approach that accounts for the selection of families through probands affected with either breast or ovarian cancer, or unaffected. Our simulation studies demonstrate the good performances of our proposed approach in terms of bias and precision of the estimators of model parameters and cause-specific penetrances over different levels of familial correlations. We applied our new approach to 498 BRCA1 mutation carrier families recruited through the Breast Cancer Family Registry. Our results demonstrate the importance of the functional form of the time-varying covariate effect when assessing the role of risk-reducing salpingo oophorectomy on breast cancer. In particular, under the best fitting time-varying covariate model, the overall effect of risk-reducing salpingo oophorectomy on breast cancer risk was statistically significant in women with BRCA1 mutation.