Search Results - "Ileana Baldi"
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Prediction of treatment outcome in clinical trials under a personalized medicine perspective
Published in Scientific reports (08-03-2022)“…A central problem in most data-driven personalized medicine scenarios is the estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects to stratify individuals into…”
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Prior Elicitation for Use in Clinical Trial Design and Analysis: A Literature Review
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health (13-02-2021)“…Bayesian inference is increasingly popular in clinical trial design and analysis. The subjective knowledge derived from an expert elicitation procedure may be…”
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High Agreement and High Prevalence: The Paradox of Cohen's Kappa
Published in The open nursing journal (31-10-2017)“…Cohen's Kappa is the most used agreement statistic in literature. However, under certain conditions, it is affected by a paradox which returns biased estimates…”
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Bioactive glass for periodontal regeneration: a systematic review
Published in BMC oral health (08-05-2023)“…One of the major clinical challenges of this age could be represented by the possibility to obtain a complete regeneration of infrabony defects. Over the past…”
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Lenalidomide plus R-CHOP21 in elderly patients with untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: results of the REAL07 open-label, multicentre, phase 2 trial
Published in The lancet oncology (01-06-2014)“…Summary Background Up to 40% of elderly patients with untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) given a regimen of rituximab, cyclophosphamide,…”
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Oversampling and replacement strategies in propensity score matching: a critical review focused on small sample size in clinical settings
Published in BMC medical research methodology (22-11-2021)“…Propensity score matching is a statistical method that is often used to make inferences on the treatment effects in observational studies. In recent years,…”
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Use and effectiveness of dapagliflozin in routine clinical practice: An Italian multicentre retrospective study
Published in Diabetes, obesity & metabolism (01-07-2018)“…In randomized controlled trials (RCTs), sodium‐glucose co‐transporter‐2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have been shown to confer glycaemic and extra‐glycaemic benefits…”
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First-Line Treatment for Primary Testicular Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma With Rituximab-CHOP, CNS Prophylaxis, and Contralateral Testis Irradiation: Final Results of an International Phase II Trial
Published in Journal of clinical oncology (10-07-2011)“…Primary testicular lymphoma (PTL) has poor prognosis with failures in contralateral testis, CNS, and extranodal sites. To prevent these events, we designed an…”
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Comparison of bullying of food-allergic versus healthy schoolchildren in Italy
Published in Journal of allergy and clinical immunology (01-09-2014)“…[...]bullying assessment was not corroborated by other sources (teachers, parents). Characteristic Allergic (n = 120) Nonallergic (n = 120) Boys[dagger] 73…”
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Estimation of R0 for the Spread of the First ASF Epidemic in Italy from Fresh Carcasses
Published in Viruses (12-10-2022)“…After fifty years of spread in the European continent, the African swine fever (ASF) virus was detected for the first time in the north of Italy (Piedmont) in…”
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Predictive models in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): a systematic review
Published in Systematic reviews (15-03-2023)“…Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been increasingly used in the last years to provide hemodynamic and respiratory support in critically ill…”
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Screening PubMed abstracts: is class imbalance always a challenge to machine learning?
Published in Systematic reviews (06-12-2019)“…The growing number of medical literature and textual data in online repositories led to an exponential increase in the workload of researchers involved in…”
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School personnel's self-efficacy in managing food allergy and anaphylaxis
Published in Pediatric allergy and immunology (01-06-2016)“…Background Food allergy affects up to 4–7% European schoolchildren. Studies identified important shortcomings on food allergy and anaphylaxis management in…”
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High- and low-inpatients’ serum magnesium levels are associated with in-hospital mortality in elderly patients: a neglected marker?
Published in Aging clinical and experimental research (01-03-2020)“…Background Altered serum magnesium (Mg) level in the human body has been hypothesized to have a role in the prediction of hospitalization and mortality;…”
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Dynamic Bayesian Networks to predict sequences of organ failures in patients admitted to ICU
Published in Journal of biomedical informatics (01-04-2014)“…Dynamic Bayesian Network for organ system failure to model SOFA severity score changes in adult critically ill patients identifying the most probable sequences…”
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Changes in Estimating the Wild Boar Carcasses Sampling Effort: Applying the EFSA ASF Exit Strategy by Means of the WBC-Counter Tool
Published in Viruses (28-06-2022)“…African swine fever (ASF) is a devastating disease, resulting in the high mortality of domestic and wild pigs, spreading quickly around the world. Ensuring the…”
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Bayesian sample size determination for phase IIA clinical trials using historical data and semi‐parametric prior's elicitation
Published in Pharmaceutical statistics : the journal of the pharmaceutical industry (01-03-2019)“…Summary The Simon's two‐stage design is the most commonly applied among multi‐stage designs in phase IIA clinical trials. It combines the sample sizes at the…”
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Building Infrastructure to Exploit Evidence from Patient Preference Information (PPI) Studies: A Conceptual Blueprint
Published in Applied sciences (01-07-2022)“…Patients are the most important actors in clinical research. Therefore, patient preference information (PPI) could support the decision-making process, being…”
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Overrunning in clinical trials: some thoughts from a methodological review
Published in Current controlled trials in cardiovascular medicine (21-07-2020)“…In sequential and adaptive trials, the delay that happens after the trial is stopped, by a predetermined stopping criterion, takes the name of overrunning…”
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COVID-19 hospitalizations and patients' age at admission: The neglected importance of data variability for containment policies
Published in Frontiers in public health (30-11-2022)“…An excess in the daily fluctuation of COVID-19 in hospital admissions could cause uncertainty and delays in the implementation of care interventions. This…”
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