STUDY PROTOCOL: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF A COMPUTER-BASED DEPRESSION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE INTERVENTION FOR PEOPLE ATTENDING RESIDENTIAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT

Study protocol: a randomized controlled trial of a computer-based depression and substance abuse intervention for people attending residential substance abuse treatment

Abstract Background A large proportion of people attending residential alcohol and other substance abuse treatment have a co-occurring mental illness.Empirical evidence suggests that it is important to treat both the substance abuse problem and co-occurring mental illness concurrently and in an integrated fashion.However, the majority of residentia

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The Efficacy of Polydioxanone Sutures in Treating Mild-to-Moderate Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background and Objectives: This meta-analysis aimed to compare the efficacy of polydioxanone (PDO) suture, a non-surgical treatment for knee osteoarthritis, with intra-articular hyaluronic turbosound ts-18sw700/8a acid (HA) injections.Materials and Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted using major databases including MEDLINE, EMB

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Impact of evergreening on patients and health insurance: a meta analysis and reimbursement cost analysis of citalopram/escitalopram antidepressants

Abstract Background "Evergreening" refers to the numerous strategies whereby owners of pharmaceutical products use patent laws and minor drug modifications to extend their monopoly privileges on the drug.We aimed to evaluate the impact of evergreening through the case study of the antidepressant citalopram and its chiral switch sex shop arles form

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Caring for Strangers

Caring for Strangers (2017) takes the reader on an interesting journey to the everyday lives of Filipino migrant nurse workers placed in Singapore.It does so focusing on the narratives and the frequent encounters that anthropologist Megha Amrith had over her fieldwork read more time in Singapore.The result is a rich compilation of the social, polit

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Temporal Continuities of Grasslands and Forests as Patches of Natural Land in Urban Landscapes: A Case Study of the Tsukuba Science City

Development has fragmented urban nature, and target sites for conservation strategies need to be those that have long maintained their original land cover in a clustered area.Additionally, continuously grasping changes from rural to urban as well as changes over decades after urbanization is essential.Therefore, this study identified and investigat

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