scholarly journals Matching on poset‐based average rank for multiple treatments to compare many unbalanced groups

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margherita Silan ◽  
Giovanna Boccuzzo ◽  
Bruno Arpino
VASA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 477-483
Author(s):  
Robert Karl Clemens ◽  
Frederic Baumann ◽  
Marc Husmann ◽  
Thomas Oleg Meier ◽  
Christoph Thalhammer ◽  
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Abstract. Background: Congenital venous malformations are frequently treated with sclerotherapy. Primary treatment goal is to control the often size-related symptoms. Functional impairment and aesthetical aspects as well as satisfaction have rarely been evaluated. Patients and methods: Medical records of patients who underwent sclerotherapy of spongiform venous malformations were reviewed and included in this retrospective study. The outcome of sclerotherapy as self-reported by patients was assessed in a 21 item questionnaire. Results: Questionnaires were sent to 166 patients with a total of 327 procedures. Seventy-seven patients (48 %) with a total of 159 procedures (50 %) responded to the survey. Fifty-seven percent of patients were male. The age ranged from 1 to 38.1 years with a median age of 16.4 years. The lower extremities were the most common treated area. Limitations caused by the venous malformation improved in the majority of patients (e.g. pain improvement 87 %, improvement of swelling 83 %) but also worsening of symptoms occurred in a minority of cases. Seventy-seven per cent would undergo sclerotherapy again. Conclusions: Sclerotherapy for treatment of venous malformations results in significant reduction of symptoms. Multiple treatments are often needed, but patients are willing to undergo them.


2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 1790.2-1790
Author(s):  
R. M. Alcobendas ◽  
C. Quintana ◽  
J. Arostegui ◽  
C. Udaondo ◽  
S. Murias Loza ◽  
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Background:Few patients have been described in the literature with mutations in the Lacasa Domain containing one (LACC1) gene. Its clinical presentation usually associates sustained systemic inflammation associated with chronic polyarticular erosive arthritis. Until now, there have been multiple treatments described to try to control the disease, however, they are generally unsuccessful in the long term.Objectives:Describe the clinical course of a patient as well as the different treatments usedMethods:Clinical chart reviewResults:Female 18-year-old born from a consanguineous Moroccan couple. Mother, brother and sister with similar conditions. She started at 3 years with fever, anemia, intense elevation of acute phase reactants and symmetric polyarthritis (knees, elbows, carps, shoulders, hands and ankles). Subsequent whole exome sequencing identified c.128_129delGT mutation in the LACC1/FAMIN gene. During the course of her illness, she has received treatment with oral, intravenous and infiltrated corticosteroid, methotrexate and etanercept, without getting adequate control of the disease. In 2016, she started treatment with tocilizumab (8 mg / kg every two weeks), obtaining an acceptable control of the disease (requiring periodic infiltrations every 2-3 months due to persistent arthritis). Nonetheless, in April 2019, she consulted for clinical worsening of the arthritis and laboratory test (C reactive protein 99.7 mg / L, erythrosedimentation rate 53 mm / h, leukocytes 13,500/µL and neutrophils 10,930/µL). At that time, she discontinued therapy with tocilizumab and started tofacitinib 5 mg every 12 hours with good evolution. Since its introduction, it has not required joint infiltration again and the inflammatory parameters (persistently elevated previously) have normalized.Conclusion:The jak kinasa inhibitors may be a treatment option in those patients with bad response to conventional therapy.References:[1]Rabionet R, Remesal A, Mensa-Vilaró A, Murías S, Alcobendas R, González-Roca E, Ruiz-Ortiz E, Antón J, Iglesias E, Modesto C, Comas D, Puig A, Drechsel O, Ossowski S, Yagüe J, Merino R, Estivill X, Arostegui JI. Biallelic loss-of-function LACC1/FAMIN Mutations Presenting as Rheumatoid Factor-Negative Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. Sci Rep. 2019 Mar 14;9(1):4579Disclosure of Interests:None declared


Pharmacy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Linda Xing Yu Liu ◽  
Marina Golts ◽  
Virginia Fernandes

The impact of depression is well described in the literature, and it is most prominent in patients who have trialed multiple treatments. Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is particularly debilitating, and it is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite this, there seems to be therapeutic inertia in adopting novel therapies in current practice. Ketamine is an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist and anesthetic agent which has recently been shown to be effective in the management of TRD when administered intravenously or intranasally. The treatments, however, are not easily accessible due to restrictions in prescribing and dispensing, high costs, and the slow uptake of evidence-based practice involving ketamine within the Canadian healthcare system. Given the limited treatment options for TRD, novel approaches should be considered and adopted into practice, and facilitated by a multi-disciplinary approach. Pharmacists play a critical role in ensuring access to quality care. This includes dissemination of evidence supporting pharmacological treatments and facilitating translation into current practice. Pharmacists are uniquely positioned to collaborate with prescribers and assess novel treatment options, such as ketamine, address modifiable barriers to treatment, and triage access to medications during transitions of care. Extending the reach of these novel psychiatric treatments in both tertiary and primary care settings creates an emerging role for pharmacists in the collaborative effort to better manage treatment-resistant depression.


2021 ◽  
pp. 153465012110302
Author(s):  
Judah B. Axe ◽  
Corinne M. Murphy ◽  
William L. Heward

Functional communication training (FCT) is a treatment for problem behavior in which the learner is taught a communicative behavior that fulfills the same function as the problem behavior. Although effective, when FCT is used to request breaks from work, limitations include increased time spent in breaks and reduced task-related responding. An alternative treatment is most-to-least prompting (MTL) of a task in which a therapist provides the most helpful prompts for task-related responding (e.g., physical guidance) and gradually reduces the amount of help (e.g., visual prompt and then verbal) until the learner responds independently. We evaluated FCT and MTL in a multiple treatments design with an 11-year-old girl with severe developmental disabilities. Both treatments reduced problem behavior from baseline levels, and academic responding was greater during MTL than during FCT. MTL is an errorless teaching approach conceptualized as an abolishing operation that reduces the aversiveness of a task and makes escape less valuable.


BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. e045987
Author(s):  
Carole Lunny ◽  
Andrea C Tricco ◽  
Areti-Angeliki Veroniki ◽  
Sofia Dias ◽  
Brian Hutton ◽  
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IntroductionSystematic reviews with network meta-analysis (NMA; ie, multiple treatment comparisons, indirect comparisons) have gained popularity and grown in number due to their ability to provide comparative effectiveness of multiple treatments for the same condition. The methodological review aims to develop a list of items relating to biases in reviews with NMA. Such a list will inform a new tool to assess the risk of bias in NMAs, and potentially other reporting or quality checklists for NMAs which are being updated.Methods and analysisWe will include articles that present items related to bias, reporting or methodological quality, articles assessing the methodological quality of reviews with NMA, or papers presenting methods for NMAs. We will search Ovid MEDLINE, the Cochrane library and difficult to locate/unpublished literature. Once all items have been extracted, we will combine conceptually similar items, classifying them as referring to bias or to other aspects of quality (eg, reporting). When relevant, reporting items will be reworded into items related to bias in NMA review conclusions, and then reworded as signalling questions.Ethics and disseminationNo ethics approval was required. We plan to publish the full study open access in a peer-reviewed journal, and disseminate the findings via social media (Twitter, Facebook and author affiliated websites). Patients, healthcare providers and policy-makers need the highest quality evidence to make decisions about which treatments should be used in healthcare practice. Being able to critically appraise the findings of systematic reviews that include NMA is central to informed decision-making in patient care.


2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (S7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinhthuy T Phan ◽  
Nam S Vo ◽  
Thomas R Sutter

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew B. Howle ◽  
Thomas J. Straka ◽  
Mathew C. Nespeca

AbstractFocus group methodology in a field demonstration setting was used to obtain qualitative data on the perceptions of family forest owners relating to treatment efficiency and feasibility of herbicide control methods. Interviews took place on sites where various strategic herbicide treatments were implemented for Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense) control using the active ingredients glyphosate and metsulfuron. Forest owners expressed unease about the possibility for post-treatment privet reestablishment due to reseeding or other factors and opinions surfaced calling for selective chemicals or application methods that would spare non-target species. Furthermore, treatment cost effectiveness with regard to timber value, the possible need for expensive multiple treatments, cost-share incentives, and treatment guarantees from herbicide applicators were participant concerns. Environmental concerns surfaced about possible effects of both herbicide use and the invasion of privet on natural systems and an unexpected result was a strong feeling among the forest owners that focus groups are a powerful demonstration tool.


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