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Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Background And Objectives: Older patients diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a higher risk of all-cause mortality than the general population. However, there is limited information available on how CKD relates to all-cause mortality among Black adults in the United States. We aimed to investigate how CKD relates to all-cause mortality risk among older Black adults.
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Department of Sociology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, USA. Electronic address:
The medical encounter represents a site where patients may be harmed, with intersecting vulnerabilities shaping the risk and nature of this harm. Sexual and reproductive healthcare is an important site for exploring this dynamic. Questions concerning how immigrant women experience sexual and reproductive healthcare abound, with researchers and practitioners calling for greater attention to a population whose experiences are underrepresented in existing literature.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFCaring around and through medical tests in primary care: On the role of care in the diagnostic process.
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Primary care is characterised by a broad understanding of health and illness. Due to the high degree of diagnostic uncertainty in primary care, medical tests play a lesser role in this domain than in specialist medicine. However, medical testing is also becoming increasingly important in primary care, raising questions about how these technologies are integrated into everyday practice.
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Medical BioSciences, Radboudumc, Nijmegen 6562 GA, The Netherlands.
Tissue specimens taken from primary tumors or metastases contain important information for diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients. Multiplex imaging allows visualization of heterogeneous cell populations, such as immune cells, in tissue samples. Most image processing pipelines first segment cell boundaries and then measure marker expression to assign cell phenotypes.
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