ABSTRACT: Background: Propensity score methods have become a cornerstone of modern causal inference, enabling researchers to approximate the conditions of randomized experiments in observational ...

1 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. 2 School of International Education, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. 3 Guangdong ...

Background: Clinical studies on heart failure (HF) with mildly reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFmrEF) are gradually increasing. However, relatively few studies have examined patients with ...

Objective: Thymic tumors are a rare group of anterior mediastinal tumors. Surgery is the primary treatment. Adjuvant treatment is used in select cases. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ...

A panelist discusses how a large propensity score–matched analysis of 1300 patients aged 60-75 found similar all-cause mortality between intensive chemotherapy and azacitidine plus venetoclax, but ...

Abstract: The intersection of music and mental health has gained increasing attention, with previous studies highlighting music’s potential to reduce stress and anxiety. Despite these promising ...

Introduction Telemedicine use has risen significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence suggests that the quality of care in telemedicine could be as good as in-person care, but this is likely ...

Objectives Recent studies have suggested a potential link between opium consumption and microvascular dysfunction in coronary arteries, which may contribute to the development of coronary slow-flow ...

Patients with resected CCA undergoing curative surgery, with or without AC, were identified from three centers in Thailand. Patients with R2 resection and 30 days postoperative death were excluded.

Abstract: Existing machine learning methods for retail product sales forecasting often rely on their own time series data and tend to ignore the correlation between the target retail product and other ...