Predictive factors influencing pregnancy rates after intrauterine insemination with frozen donor semen: a prospective cohort study.

The extent to which certain parameters can influence pregnancy rates after intrauterine insemination with frozen donor semen was examined prospectively. Between July 2011 and September 2015, 402 women received 1264 IUI cycles with frozen donor semen in a tertiary referral infertility centre. A case report form was used to collect data prospectively.

Predictive value of different covariates influencing pregnancy rate following intrauterine insemination with homologous semen: a prospective cohort study.

The aim was to examine the value of different covariates in the prediction of intrauterine insemination (IUI) success. Between July 2011 and September 2015, data from 1401 IUI cycles with homologous semen in 556 couples were collected prospectively, by questionnaire, in a tertiary referral infertility centre. Statistical analysis was performed using generalized estimating equations (GEEs).

Resource utilisation and direct costs in patients with recently diagnosed fibromyalgia who are offered one of three different interventions in a randomised pragmatic trial.

The purpose of this study is to understand the course of costs over a 2-year period in a cohort of recently diagnosed fibromyalgia (FM) patients receiving different treatment strategies. Following the diagnosis, patients were randomly assigned to a multidisciplinary programme (MD), aerobic exercise (AE) or usual care (UC) without being aware of alternative interventions. Time between diagnosis and start of treatment varied between patients.

Exercise training improves insulin release during glucose tolerance testing in stable chronic heart failure patients.

Purpose: Chronic heart failure (CHF) patients often present with (pre)diabetes, which negatively influences prognosis. Unlike the proven effect of exercise on glucose regulation in the general population, its effect in CHF is unclear. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the effect of exercise training on glucose regulation in stable CHF patients.

Mandatory oral glucose tolerance tests identify more diabetics in stable patients with chronic heart failure: a prospective observational study.

Background: Many patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) are believed to have unrecognized diabetes, which is associated with a worse prognosis. This study aimed to describe glucose tolerance in a general stable CHF population and to identify determinants of glucose tolerance focusing on body composition and skeletal muscle strength.

Methods: A prospective observational study was set up.

A sensitivity analysis for shared-parameter models for incomplete longitudinal outcomes.

All models for incomplete data either explicitly make assumptions about aspects of the distribution of the unobserved outcomes, given the observed ones, or at least implicitly imply such. One consequence is that there routinely exist a whole class of models, coinciding in their description of the observed portion of the data but differing with respect to their "predictions" of what is unobserved. Within such a class, there always is a single model corresponding to so-called random missingness, in the sense that the mechanism governing missingness depends on covariates and observed outcomes, but given these not further on unobserved outcomes.