Publications by authors named "M J Baier"

For my senior high school capstone project, I focused on pediatric oncology, which included shadowing two physicians. I realized that although physicians do incredible work, the nurses I encountered were so hands on and appea.

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Virologic failure of long-acting rilpivirine/cabotegravir is rare but may result in severely limited treatment options. Known risk factors cannot predict all cases. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) may help identify patients at risk, but reliable thresholds are missing.

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Background: Quality control (QC), quality assurance, and standardization are crucial for modern diagnostic testing in the field of medical microbiology. The need for efficient QC to ensure accurate laboratory results, treatment, and infection prevention has led to significant efforts in standardizing assay reagents and workflows. External quality assessment (EQA) schemes, like those offered by INSTAND, play a vital role in evaluating in-house and commercial routine diagnostic assays, regarded as mandatory by national and global guidelines.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study focuses on children who have surgery to remove spine tumors and whether they also need a second surgery to fix their spine afterwards.
  • It explains that many kids experience problems after surgery, and that there isn’t much information on doing both the tumor removal and spine fixing at the same time.
  • The researchers gathered results from several studies and found nine kids who had both surgeries together, mostly because they had major issues with their spine before the operation.
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