Cost savings with rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in low-transmission areas: evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Publications)
The RDTs decreased patient expenditure on drugs (savings = U.S. $0.36; P = 0.002) and provider drug costs (savings = U.S. $0.43; P = 0.034) compared with control facilities. However, RDT introduction did [...] reduce patients' overall expenditures (U.S. $1.02, 95% confidence interval [CI] = $0.76-$1.36 versus U.S. $1.33 95% CI = $0.99-$1.77) and may increase total provider costs (U.S. $3.63, 95% CI = $3.40-$3.89 [...] compliance with test results was higher with RDTs than with routine...
The effect of workplace smoking bans on heart rate variability and pulse wave velocity of non-smoking hospitality workers (Publications)
(95 % CI 0.2-4.4; p = 0.031) higher root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD), a 5.7 % (95 % CI 0.9-10.2; p = 0.02) higher high-frequency component and a 0.72 % (95 % CI 0.40-1.05; p < 0.001) lower
Barriers to family planning use in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: an application of the theory of planned behaviour using a... (Publications)
associated with intention to use FP (beta=0.367; p=0.008). Being married was positively and marginally significantly associated with intention to use FP (beta=0.524: p=0.050). Subjective norms were negatively [...] significantly associated with intention to use FP (beta=-0.572; p=0.003) while perceived control was positively associated with intention to use FP (beta=0.578; p
The importance of the treatment rationale for pain in animal-assisted interventions: a randomized controlled trial in healthy participants (Publications)
the limit of their tolerance compared to participants in the NT condition (estimate = -0.44, CI = -0.89 to 0.02, p = 0.060). This study indicates that a dog has analgesic effects on pain perception when [...] the limit of their tolerance compared to participants in the NT condition (estimate = -0.96, CI = -1.58 to 0.34, p = 0.010). Participants in the DT condition also showed lower ratings of pain intensity at
Glyphosate and AMPA in human urine of HBM4EU-aligned studies: part B adults (Publications)
reported quantification limits (LOQs) (0.05-0.1 microg/L). The 95th percentiles (P95) ranged between 0.24 and 0.37 microg/L urine for Gly and between 0.21 and 0.38 microg/L for AMPA. Lower values were [...] in adults did not lead to exceedances of the ADI (proposed acceptable daily intake of EFSA for Gly 0.1 mg/kg bw/day based on histopathological findings in the salivary gland of rats) indicating no human
Systematic validation of land use regression medels for NO2 (Publications)
decreased from 0.87 to 0.82 and 0.83 to 0.79, respectively, with an increasing number of training sites. In contrast, the mean HV R(2) was lowest (0.60) with the smallest training sets and increased to 0.74 with [...] as few as 24 training sites, however, achieved acceptable hold out validation R(2)s of, on average, 0.60.
Pacing pattern and speed skating performance in competitive long-distance events (Publications)
laps (p < 0.001) with laps 2-7 not different from each other but faster than laps 19-24 (p < 0.05), which also did not differ from each other. Top-ranked compared with bottom-ranked skaters (p < 0.001) and [...] in each instance for women's 3,000 m (p < 0.001). For the 5,000 m races, laps 5-12 in women and laps 8-12 in men were slower compared with previous laps (p < 0.001, for both sexes). For men's 10,000 m, [...] and male compared with female skaters (p < 0.001) were significantly...
Cost savings with rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in low-transmission areas: evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Publications)
The RDTs decreased patient expenditure on drugs (savings = U.S. $0.36; P = 0.002) and provider drug costs (savings = U.S. $0.43; P = 0.034) compared with control facilities. However, RDT introduction did [...] reduce patients' overall expenditures (U.S. $1.02, 95% confidence interval [CI] = $0.76-$1.36 versus U.S. $1.33 95% CI = $0.99-$1.77) and may increase total provider costs (U.S. $3.63, 95% CI = $3.40-$3.89 [...] compliance with test results was higher with RDTs than with routine...
The effect of workplace smoking bans on heart rate variability and pulse wave velocity of non-smoking hospitality workers (Publications)
(95 % CI 0.2-4.4; p = 0.031) higher root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD), a 5.7 % (95 % CI 0.9-10.2; p = 0.02) higher high-frequency component and a 0.72 % (95 % CI 0.40-1.05; p < 0.001) lower
Use of a handheld ultrasonographic device to identify heart failure and pulmonary disease in rural Africa (Publications)
ranging from -0.008 to 0.76. Between clinicians and senior physicians, diagnosis agreements were 85% (κ, 0.69) for heart failure, 78% (κ, 0.57) for definite or probable tuberculosis, 50% (κ, 0.002) for viral [...] (71%-99%), with κ ranging from -0.003 to 0.83. Median (range) agreement of diagnoses between clinicians and expert sonographers was 90% (50%-99%), with κ ranging from -0.002 to 0.76. Between clinicians and [...] viral pneumonia, and 56% (κ, 0.06) for bacterial pneumonia. CONCLUSIONS...
