BACKGROUND Annual hemoglobin A1c testing is recommended for patients with diabetes mellitus. However, it is unknown how consistently patients with diabetes mellitus receive hemoglobin A1c testing over time, or whether testing consistency is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS We identified 1 574 415 Medicare patients (2002-2012) with diabetes mellitus over the...

OBJECTIVE To validate a next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based method for 24-chromosome aneuploidy screening and to investigate its applicability to preimplantation genetic screening (PGS). DESIGN Retrospective blinded study. SETTING Reference laboratory. PATIENT(S) Karyotypically defined chromosomally abnormal single cells and whole-genome amplification (WGA) products, previously analyze...

OBJECTIVES To compare the effect of using different anticholinergic drug scales and different models of cognitive decline in longitudinal studies. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Outpatient clinics, Quebec, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Individuals aged 60 and older without dementia or depression (n = 102). MEASUREMENTS Using baseline and 1-year follow-up data, four measures of anticho...

Consistent terminology can positively influence communication, information transfer, and proper understanding. In multilingual written communication processes, challenges are augmented due to translation variants. The main aim of this study was implement the Herfindahl-Hirshman Index (HHI) for assessment translated in parallel corpora evaluation terminology. This research conducted on three typ...

This preliminary study aimed to adapt the Dysarthria Impact Profile (DIP) in French and to confirm its relevance for the assessment of the psychosocial impact of dysarthria in Parkinson's disease (PD). The DIP scale was administered to 10 people with PD and 10 age-matched control subjects. The DIP psychometric properties were calculated (discriminant validity, internal consistency, and concurre...

The paper deals with a step-wise analytic hierarchy process (AHP) applied by a group of decision makers wherein nobody has a dominant position and it is unlikely to come to terms with respect to either the weights of different objectives or expected utilities of different alternatives. One of the AHP outcomes, that is the consistency index is computed for each decision maker, for all other deci...