Background: The early prediction of antibiotic resistance in patients with a urinary tract infection (UTI) is important to guide appropriate antibiotic therapy selection.
Objective: In this study, we aimed to predict antibiotic resistance in patients with a UTI. Additionally, we aimed to interpret the machine learning models we developed.
Introduction: Treatment with erythropoietin-stimulating agents (ESAs) is widely used in anemia of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Acquired ESA resistance is an important problem. The aim of this study is to examine the bone marrow findings in hemodialysis patients with ESA-resistant anemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA well-known effect size (ES) indicator is Cohen's d. Cohen defined d measures of small, medium, and large ES as 0.2, 0.
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is one major disease in the group of neurodegenerative conditions. As with most other neurodegenerative diseases, clinical signs of the disease usually show among the elderly population, and most commonly around 60-65 years of age. Therefore the disease is not expected to impact the fertility of ALS patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: In many countries, medical education programmes are expanding, and educational environments are starting to change from hospitals to primary health care centres. International organizations for medical education highlight that medical students should also be educated at primary and secondary care centres in addition to third-step health care. In this study, the evaluation of sixth-year (final year) medical students' perspectives on the educational environment of family medicine internship in primary care is presented, using the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measurement (DREEM): This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with sixth-year medical students.
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