Search Results - "Picone, G."

Vaginal microbiome and metabolome highlight specific signatures of bacterial vaginosis by Vitali, B., Cruciani, F., Picone, G., Parolin, C., Donders, G., Laghi, L.

“…In this study, we sought to find novel bacterial and metabolic hallmarks for bacterial vaginosis (BV). We studied the vaginal microbiome and metabolome of…”
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Home nocturnal hemodialysis in children by Geary, Denis F., Piva, E., Tyrrell, J., Gajaria, M.J., Picone, G., Keating, L.E., Harvey, E.A.

“…To describe the effect of home nocturnal hemodialysis (NHD) in North American children. Four teenagers underwent NHD for 8 hours, 6 to 7 nights/week, using…”
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Hospital ownership and cost and quality of care: is there a dime’s worth of difference? by Sloan, Frank A, Picone, Gabriel A, Taylor, Donald H, Chou, Shin-Yi

“…Nonprofit organizations may predominate when output quality is difficult to monitor. Hospital care has this characteristic. This study compared program cost…”
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A combination of a fixed dose rate infusion of gemcitabine associated to a bolus 5-fluorouracil in advanced pancreatic cancer, a report from the Italian Group for the Study of Digestive Tract Cancer (GISCAD) by Cascinu, S., Frontini, L., Labianca, R., Catalano, V., Barni, S., Graiff, C., Picone, G., Farinati, F., Zonato, S., Pessi, M. A., Curti, C., Catalano, G.

“…Background: Laboratory evidences suggest the possibility that an infusion rate of 10 mg/m2/min may be more effective than the standard 30-min infusion of…”
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Association between maternal-fetal Doppler velocimetry and fetal lung maturity by Piazze, Juan J, Anceschi, Maurizio M, Picone, Giovanna, Cerekja, Albana, La Torre, Renato, Cosmi, Ermelando V

“…To correlate maternal-fetal Doppler velocimetry parameters to indices of fetal lung maturity (FLM). Fifty-five consecutive third trimester pregnancies in which…”
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The Price of Smoking by Sloan, Frank A, Ostermann, Jan, Conover, Christopher, Taylor, Donald H., Jr, Picone, Gabriel, Taylor, Donald H

“…What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates…”
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The Lived Experiences of Children and Adolescents With End-Stage Renal Disease by Nicholas, David B., Picone, Gail, Selkirk, Enid K.

“…Relatively little is known about how children perceive and manage end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in daily life. To address this gap in the literature, the…”
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Effects of strategic behavior and public subsidies on families' savings and long-term care decisions by Sloan, F A, Hoerger, T J, Picone, G

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The lived experience of adolescents who transfer from a pediatric to an adult hemodialysis centre by Braj, B, Picone, G, Children, H F, Cross, N, Pearlman, L

“…The transition experience of adolescent patients who transfer from pediatric to adult hemodialysis centres has not received attention in the pediatric…”
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Effects of Risk and Time Preference and Expected Longevity on Demand for Medical Tests by PICONE, GABRIEL, SLOAN, FRANK, TAYLOR, DONALD

“…Despite their conceptual importance, the effects of time preference, expected longevity, uncertainty, and risk aversion on behavior have not been analyzed…”
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Distance decreases with differentiation: Strategic agglomeration by retailers by Picone, Gabriel A., Ridley, David B., Zandbergen, Paul A.

“…Theory predicts intense price competition results when firms cluster with rivals. Yet, strong evidence of clustering is found in previous empirical research…”
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PF197 A NEW CLASSIFICATION OF ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA BASED ON INTEGRATED GENOMICS AND METABOLOMICS by Simonetti, G., Padella, A., Mengucci, C., Fonzi, E., Picone, G., Pazzaglia, M., Perricone, M., Fontana, M., Bruno, S., Bochicchio, M.T., Franchini, E., Nanni, J., Marconi, G., Valle, I.F., De Tommaso, R., Ferrari, A., Ghetti, M., Napolitano, R., Papayannidis, C., Ghelli Luseran di Rorà, A., Cerchione, C., Ottaviani, E., Castellani, G., Remondini, D., Capozzi, F., Martinelli, G.

“…Background: An expanding body of evidence indicates that targeting cell metabolism is a promising therapeutic strategy in acute myeloid leukemia (AML)…”
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Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship Between Regular Eye Examinations and Changes in Visual and Functional Status by Sloan, Frank A., Picone, Gabriel, Brown, Derek S., Lee, Paul P.

“…Objectives: To determine whether regular eye examinations are associated with a greater or lesser rate of loss of ability to read newsprint, onset of blindness…”
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Are For-Profit Hospital Conversions Harmful to Patients and to Medicare? by Picone, Gabriel, Chou, Shin-Yi, Sloan, Frank

“…We examine how changes in hospital ownership to and from for-profit status affect quality and Medicare payments per hospital stay. We hypothesize that…”
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Analysis of hospital length of stay and discharge destination using hazard functions with unmeasured heterogeneity by Picone, Gabriel, Mark Wilson, R., Chou, Shin-Yi

“…The hospital length‐of‐stay and the discharge destination of a Medicare patient are the outcomes of one decision process involving the interests of the…”
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Minimal extracorporeal circulation (MECC): our experience: O-60 by Leonardi, S., Zampaglione, A., Tommasini, S., Mazzola, T., Picone, G., Zaccone, G., Mazzei, V., Zucchetti, M.

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Minimal extracorporeal circulation (MECC): our experience: O-60 by Leonardi, S, Zampaglione, A, Tommasini, S, Mazzola, T, Picone, G, Zaccone, G, Mazzei, V, Zucchetti, M

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Usefulness of power Doppler in the diagnostic management of hypoechoic thyroid nodules by Spiezia, Stefano, Cerbone, Gaetana, Colao, Annamaria, Assanti, Angelo P, Picone, Gennaro M, Lombardi, Gaetano

“…Objective: The usefulness of power Doppler (PD), a new color Doppler ultrasonography technique, namely in the diagnosis and management of hypoechoic thyroid…”
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Development of a nocturnal home hemodialysis (NHHD) program for children by Geary, Denis F, Piva, Elizabeth, Gajaria, Mukesh, Tyrrel, Jennifer, Picone, Gail, Harvey, Elizabeth

“…Whereas the success of nocturnal home hemodialysis (NHHD) as a treatment modality for adults has been clearly demonstrated, there is very little experience…”
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The team approach to the management of children on chronic peritoneal dialysis by Harvey, E, Secker, D, Braj, B, Picone, G, Balfe, J W

“…The diagnosis of chronic renal failure has a profound and lasting impact on a child and family, with the potential for impairment of the child's physical,…”
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