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Pregnancy Intention and Birth Outcomes: Does the Relationship Differ by Age or Race?
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2007-05-01)
Purpose: We hypothesized that intended pregnancy is associated with decreased risk of poor birth outcomes, irrespective of age or race. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 47,956 live singleton births using ...
A Systematic Review of Gender Differences in Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2007-10)
Gender differences exist in outcomes, particularly early mortality, for percutaneous interventions (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). Better understanding of this issue may target areas for improvement ...
Mentoring for the Health Professions
(Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Company, 2001)
Mentoring can provide a new model for working with students seeking careers in the health professions. Given the growing array of health professions, mentoring programs need to recognize that the single-track premedicine ...
Surgical techniques: robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy with the da Vinci ® surgical system No conflict of interest was declared.
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-12)
Background Advanced gynecologic pathology and the surgical limitations of conventional laparoscopy have often been cited as impediments to converting hysterectomy from a procedure predominantly performed by laparotomy to ...
Merkel cell carcinoma: Critical review with guidelines for multidisciplinary management
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-07-01)
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a relatively rare cutaneous malignancy that occurs predominantly in the older white population. The incidence of MCC appears to have tripled during the past 20 years; an increase that is ...
The impact of factors beyond Breslow depth on predicting sentinel lymph node positivity in melanoma
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-01-01)
BACKGROUND. In addition to Breslow depth, the authors previously described how increasing mitotic rate and decreasing age predicted sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastases in patients with melanoma. The objectives of the ...
Development and Implementation of Novel Community Outreach Methods in Women's Health Issues: The National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2001-01-01)
Numerous outreach efforts have been employed to educate both lay and professional communities about many medical issues. As part of our contracts with the Public Health Service, Office of Women's Health, Department of ...
Low recurrence rate after surgery for dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-03-01)
BACKGROUND Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a rare sarcoma with a propensity for local recurrence. Treatments with wide excision, Mohs surgery, and other approaches have been reported with widely variable local ...
Book Review: Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say About Dieting. Mimi Nichter, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; 2000. 202 pp. + appendices
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-06)
Revisiting reliability of quantified perineal ultrasound: Bland and Altman analysis of a new protocol for the rectangular coordinate method
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
Aims This study tested the reliability of a new protocol for the rectangular coordinate method of quantifying perineal ultrasound. Methods Representative scans of healthy primiparous females were quantified by positioning ...