Project description:This announcement describes corrections and comments to the paper entitled 'The plastid genome sequence of the invasive plant common Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Asteraceae)' by A Amiryousefi, J Hyvönen, P Poczai.

| S-EPMC7800051 | biostudies-literature

Authors' reply to the comment from Glass et al.

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| S-EPMC10464268 | biostudies-literature

Aggressive treatment style and surgical outcomes.

Project description:Aggressive treatment style, as defined by the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, has been implicated as an important factor contributing to excessively high medical expenditures. We aimed to determine the association between aggressive treatment style and surgical outcomes.Medicare admissions to 3,065 hospitals for general, orthopedic, and vascular surgery between 2000 and 2005 (N = 4,558,215 unique patients).A retrospective cohort analysis.For elderly surgical patients, aggressive treatment style was not associated with significantly increased complications, but it was associated with significantly reduced odds of mortality and failure-to-rescue. The odds ratio for complications in hospitals at the 75th percentile of aggressive treatment style compared with those at the 25th percentile (a U.S.$10,000 difference) was 1.01 (1.00-1.02), p<.066; whereas the odds of mortality was 0.94 (0.93-0.95), p<.0001; and for failure-to-rescue it was 0.93 (0.92-0.94), p<.0001. Analyses that used alternative measures of aggressiveness--hospital days and ICU days--yielded similar results, as did analyses using only low-variation procedures.Attempting to reduce aggressive care that is not cost effective is a laudable goal, but policy makers should be aware that there may be improved outcomes associated with patients undergoing surgery in hospitals with a more aggressive treatment style.

| S-EPMC3029844 | biostudies-literature

Reply to comment by Kienle et al. 2017.

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| S-EPMC5627218 | biostudies-literature

Authors' reply to the comment from Benavides-Zora et al.

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| S-EPMC10311869 | biostudies-literature

Cryobiopsy Compared with Surgical Lung Biopsy in ILD: Reply to Maldonado et al., Froidure et al., Bendstrup et al., Agarwal et al., Richeldi et al., Rajchgot et al., and Quadrelli et al.

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| S-EPMC6812448 | biostudies-literature

Response to letter to editor: 'Comment on Arch et al., Trials. 2016;17:517'.

Project description:In October 2015 we published the paper 'Measurement of HbA1c in multicentre diabetes trials - should blood samples be tested locally or sent to a central laboratory: an agreement analysis'. Chatterjee and Pradhan have submitted a letter to the editor asking critical questions regarding the methods we used. We offer this letter in response. TRIAL REGISTRATION:Eudract No. 2010-023792-25. Registered on 4 November 2010. ISRCTN No. ISRCTN29255275 . Registered on 12 November 2010.

| S-EPMC5446760 | biostudies-literature

Scaling of swim speed in sharks: a comment on Jacoby et al. (2015).

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| S-EPMC5014018 | biostudies-literature

Fibromyalgia criteria and anomalous results: comment on the article by Ghavidel-Parsa et al.

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| S-EPMC9274344 | biostudies-literature