Lyme Disease Prophylaxis by Single-Dose Doxycycline in the United States, 2010-2020.

Single-dose doxycycline after high-risk tick bites can prevent Lyme disease, which disproportionately affects children. We described single-dose doxycycline dispensings in an outpatient cohort in the United States. During 2010-2020, a total of 427 105 patients received ≥1 dispensing(s); most were aged ≥65 years.

Head-to-head comparison of treatment sequences in advanced pancreatic cancer-Real-world data from the prospective German TPK clinical cohort study.

There are no clear guidelines regarding the optimal treatment sequence for advanced pancreatic cancer, as head-to-head phase III randomised trials are missing. We assess real-world effectiveness of three common sequential treatment strategies by emulating a hypothetical randomised trial. This analysis included 1551 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer from the prospective, clinical cohort study Tumour Registry Pancreatic Cancer receiving FOLFIRINOX (n = 613) or gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel (GEMNAB; n = 938) as palliative first-line treatment.

Long-term outcomes and predictors of mortality in patients with pulmonary embolism undergoing catheter-directed thrombolysis: a 10-year retrospective study.

Background: Data regarding long-term outcomes of catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) post intermediate risk pulmonary embolism (PE), the choice of anticoagulation, and factors affecting mortality are not well studied.

Methods: We conducted a ten-year retrospective observational chart review of patients undergoing CDT for intermediate-risk PE. Patients were followed for a period of 1 to a maximum of 5 years from the PE event.

Quantifying bias due to missing data in quality of life surveys of advanced-stage cancer patients.

Purpose: Many studies on cancer patients investigate the impact of treatment on health-related quality of life (QoL). Typically, QoL is measured longitudinally, at baseline and at predefined timepoints thereafter. The question is whether, at a given timepoint, patients who return their questionnaire (available cases, AC) have a different QoL than those who do not return their questionnaire (non-AC).

Metamodelling of a two-population spiking neural network.

In computational neuroscience, hypotheses are often formulated as bottom-up mechanistic models of the systems in question, consisting of differential equations that can be numerically integrated forward in time. Candidate models can then be validated by comparison against experimental data. The model outputs of neural network models depend on both neuron parameters, connectivity parameters and other model inputs.