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Several populations are at greater risk of severe COVID-19 due to inadequate responses vaccines. Many these individuals, and their caregivers, continue practicing varying degrees social isolation avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection. Following the end lockdowns, behaviors impacts continued on quality-of-life high-risk remain poorly understood. This study describes main avoidance protective ongoing experi...

A 36-item short-form (SF-36) was constructed to survey health status in the Medical Outcomes Study. The SF-36 was designed for use in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and general population surveys. The SF-36 includes one multi-item scale that assesses eight health concepts: 1) limitations in physical activities because of health problems; 2) limitations in social acti...

Abstract Background Infiltration of the cervical-visceral axis in advanced thyroid carcinoma determines prognosis patients. Complete locoregional tumour resection therefore prolongs survival even presence distant metastases. Results trachea resections performed at University Medical Center (UMC) Mainz are presented and discussed with regard to literature. Methods Patients who underwent neck sur...

BACKGROUND The intervention reported in this paper was a follow up to an empirical study conducted in Malawi with the aim of assessing trial participants' understanding of randomisation, double-blinding and placebo use. In the empirical study, the majority of respondents (61.1%; n=124) obtained low scores (lower than 75%) on understanding of all three concepts under study. Based on these findin...

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