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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death in the world and further increase in its prevalence and mortality has been predicted. Currently, the main long-term treatments are the long-acting beta-2 agonist, indacaterol, salmeterol and the ant…

This study is to determine the possibility of assessing the level of anxiety in MRI patients by means of the respiration rate (RR) and heart rate (HR) indicators acquired by a fiber-optic sensor system. The mean RR and/or HR values recorded at the beginning and the end of an MRI …

This will be a multi-center prospective observational study of all patients who undergo laparoscopic pyloromyotomy. Subjects who have PPV will be followed up to just before their 18th birthday through annual phone calls or emails to determine the incidence and timing of subsequen…

This is a two-center, open-label study conducted in healthy male and female volunteers at two academic research centers. The study will consist of three single applications of the Nestorone (NES) + testosterone (T) combined gel on the shoulders/upper arms of male participants fol…

This study is a biobank of specimens and clinical data for use in current and future research to better understand the cholestatic liver diseases primary biliary cirrhosis/cholangitis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).

This is a retrospective study looking at patients who received a nerve block for surgery and assessing pain after the nerve block resolves, with or without an educational intervention, over two periods of time.

This purpose of this database is to collect, store and use appropriately derived data from routine patient care in a specialist dental practice. Comprehensive observational data will be gathered, systematically organised and be continuously updated. This data will be used to eval…

Patients who undergo major surgery face a 15-30% risk of serious adverse events, including a 1-5% mortality risk in the first month after surgery. For patients with diabetes, the risk is even greater, and it is often aggravated by complications associated with hyper- and hypoglyc…

This retrospective observational study examines whether abdominal circumference is associated with operative time in patients undergoing retroperitoneal adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma. Data were collected from medical records of patients treated at a single tertiary referral …

The relationship between anesthetic medication and postoperative major cardiac and cerebral complications will be studied using logistic regression model.

The prognostic of burn patients has improved over the last decades. Early excision of full thickness burns is thought to be one of the key factors which have led to prognostic improvement. Best timing for burn excision remain uncertain, however. In this multicenter observational …

Residual tumor at the proximal or distal margin after esophagectomy is a known prognostic factor for poor survival outcomes in patients with esophageal cancer; however, the significance of the circumferential resection margin (CRM) remains controversial. In this study, the invest…

Background: Malaria is a serious infection caused by a parasite. People get malaria when an infected mosquito bites them. Malaria can cause major health and social problems in places were malaria is common, such as Africa but can also affect travelers who have never been exposed…

This French multicentre open-label randomized trial will test the hypothesis that a coordinated health circuit based on obstetric risks, backed up by an electronic patient care reporting information system will optimize the continuum of pregnancy care monitoring. The electronic p…

The purpose of the study is to design and test a dyadic sleep intervention for patients diagnosed with cancer and their intimate partner.

Patients receiving acyclovir as standard of care will be enrolled into this study. The currently recommended dosing strategy at our institution for obese patients is to receive intravenous acyclovir dosed per an adjusted body weight \[IBW + 0.4(TBW-IBW)\]. They will have blood dr…

The purpose of this study is to establish a database (or "registry") of patients treated with proton beam therapy at the University Hospitals (UH) Proton Therapy Center. By keeping track of the patients treated it will allow the investigators to periodically evaluate the outcomes…

To assess the pharmacokinetics of MCI-186 after a single intravenous infusion of 30mg/hour in subjects with mild or moderate Hepatic impairment compared to subjects with normal hepatic function

The aim of this study is to externally validate a new emergency department overcrowding estimation tool (SONET) developed at John Peter Smith Health Network (JPS).

The goal of this research study is to learn if there is a difference between your expectations of how well you will perform daily living activities after short-term inpatient rehabilitation and the doctor's expectations of how well you will perform daily living activities.