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  1. The effects of community health worker (CHW) home visiting during the antenatal and postnatal periods in fragile- and conflicted-affected countries such as Afghanistan are not known.

    Authors: Karen M. Edmond, Khaksar Yousufi, Zelaikha Anwari, Sayed Masoud Sadat, Shah Mansoor Staniczai, Ariel Higgins-Steele, Alexandra L. Bellows and Emily R. Smith
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:106
  2. The Choosing Wisely campaign highlights the importance of clinical reasoning abilities for competent and reflective physicians. The principles of this campaign should be addressed in undergraduate medical educati...

    Authors: Sascha Ludwig, Nikolai Schuelper, Jamie Brown, Sven Anders and Tobias Raupach
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:107
  3. Stratification of cancer patients to identify those with worse prognosis is increasingly important. Through in silico analyses, we recently developed a gene expression-based prognostic score (S3-score) for cle...

    Authors: Florian Büttner, Stefan Winter, Steffen Rausch, Jörg Hennenlotter, Stephan Kruck, Arnulf Stenzl, Marcus Scharpf, Falko Fend, Abbas Agaimy, Arndt Hartmann, Jens Bedke, Matthias Schwab and Elke Schaeffeler
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:108
  4. Equitable access to vaccines has been suggested as a priority for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, it is unclear whether providing equitable access is enough to ensure health equity. Furtherm...

    Authors: Angela Y. Chang, Carlos Riumallo-Herl, Joshua A. Salomon, Stephen C. Resch, Logan Brenzel and Stéphane Verguet
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:102
  5. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a worldwide prevalence of 1–2%. In low-resource environments, in particular, early identification and diagnosis is a significant challenge. ...

    Authors: T. Heunis, C. Aldrich, J. M. Peters, S. S. Jeste, M. Sahin, C. Scheffer and P. J. de Vries
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:101
  6. The Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet) has been acknowledged as a healthy diet. However, its relation with risk of major chronic diseases in non-Mediterranean countries is inconclusive. The Nordic diet is proposed a...

    Authors: Cecilia Galbete, Janine Kröger, Franziska Jannasch, Khalid Iqbal, Lukas Schwingshackl, Carolina Schwedhelm, Cornelia Weikert, Heiner Boeing and Matthias B. Schulze
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:99
  7. Malaria at international borders presents particular challenges with regards to elimination. International borders share common malaria ecologies, yet neighboring countries are often at different stages of the...

    Authors: Mohammed H. Al Zahrani, Abdiasiis I. Omar, Abdelmohsin M. O. Abdoon, Ali Adam Ibrahim, Abdullah Alhogail, Mohamed Elmubarak, Yousif Eldirdiry Elamin, Mohammed A. AlHelal, Ali M. Alshahrani, Tarig M. Abdelgader, Ibrahim Saeed, Tageddin B. El Gamri, Mohammed S. Alattas, Abdu A. Dahlan, Abdullah M. Assiri, Joseph Maina…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:98
  8. Globally, illness and life expectancy follow a social gradient that puts people of lower socioeconomic status (SES) at higher risk of dying prematurely. Alcohol consumption has been shown to be a factor contri...

    Authors: Charlotte Probst, Charles D. H. Parry, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen and Jürgen Rehm
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:97
  9. The healthcare system has proved a challenging environment for innovation, especially in the area of health services management and research. This is often attributed to the complexity of the healthcare sector...

    Authors: Katrina M. Long, Fiona McDermott and Graham N. Meadows
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:94
  10. Despite limited information on neonatal safety, the transfer of frozen-thawed cleavage-stage embryos with blastomere loss is common in women undergoing in vitro fertilization. We aimed to evaluate the pregnanc...

    Authors: Yan-Ting Wu, Cheng Li, Yi-Min Zhu, Shu-Hua Zou, Qiong-Fang Wu, Li-Ping Wang, Yan Wu, Rong Yin, Chao-Yi Shi, Jing Lin, Zi-Ru Jiang, Yi-Jing Xu, Yun-Fei Su, Jian Zhang, Jian-Zhong Sheng, William D. Fraser…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:96
  11. Existing evidence remains inconclusive as to the association between chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD). We prospectively examined the association between ch...

    Authors: Jiahui Si, Canqing Yu, Yu Guo, Zheng Bian, Chenxi Qin, Ling Yang, Yiping Chen, Li Yin, Hui Li, Jian Lan, Junshi Chen, Zhengming Chen, Jun Lv and Liming Li
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:93
  12. More than 65 million persons are currently forcibly displaced, of whom more than 22 million are refugees. Conflicts are increasing, and existing ones are becoming more protracted; a refugee remains a refugee f...

    Authors: Paul Spiegel, Rebecca Chanis and Antonio Trujillo
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:90
  13. Media depictions and laws passed in state legislatures regulating abortion suggest abortion-related medical emergencies are common. An accurate understanding of abortion-related emergencies is important for in...

    Authors: Ushma D. Upadhyay, Nicole E. Johns, Rebecca Barron, Alice F. Cartwright, Chantal Tapé, Alyssa Mierjeski and Alyson J. McGregor
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:88
  14. Polypharmacy is an increasing challenge for primary care. Although sometimes clinically justified, polypharmacy can be inappropriate, leading to undesirable outcomes. Optimising care for polypharmacy necessita...

    Authors: Jenni Burt, Natasha Elmore, Stephen M. Campbell, Sarah Rodgers, Anthony J. Avery and Rupert A. Payne
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:91
  15. Global migration is at an all-time high with implications for perinatal health. Migrant women, especially asylum seekers and refugees, represent a particularly vulnerable group. Understanding the impact on the...

    Authors: Nicola Heslehurst, Heather Brown, Augustina Pemu, Hayley Coleman and Judith Rankin
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:89
  16. Inadequate planning, selective reporting, and incomplete reporting of outcomes in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) contribute to the problem of waste of research. We aimed to describe such a waste and to ex...

    Authors: Youri Yordanov, Agnes Dechartres, Ignacio Atal, Viet-Thi Tran, Isabelle Boutron, Perrine Crequit and Philippe Ravaud
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:87
  17. In the earlier randomized controlled Physical Activity during Cancer Treatment (PACT) study, we found beneficial effects of an 18-week supervised exercise program on fatigue in patients with newly diagnosed br...

    Authors: Lenja Witlox, Anouk E. Hiensch, Miranda J. Velthuis, Charlotte N. Steins Bisschop, Maartje Los, Frans L. G. Erdkamp, Haiko J. Bloemendal, Marlies Verhaar, Daan ten Bokkel Huinink, Elsken van der Wall, Petra H. M. Peeters and Anne M. May
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:86
  18. HIV increases the progression of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection to active disease and contributed to increased TB in the UK until 2004. We describe temporal trends in HIV infection amongst patients with TB...

    Authors: Joanne R. Winter, Helen R. Stagg, Colette J. Smith, Maeve K. Lalor, Jennifer A. Davidson, Alison E. Brown, James Brown, Dominik Zenner, Marc Lipman, Anton Pozniak, Ibrahim Abubakar and Valerie Delpech
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:85
  19. Various Zika virus (ZIKV) vaccine candidates are currently in development. Nevertheless, unique challenges in clinical development and regulatory pathways may hinder the licensure of high-quality, safe, and ef...

    Authors: Annelies Wilder-Smith, Kirsten Vannice, Anna Durbin, Joachim Hombach, Stephen J. Thomas, Irani Thevarjan and Cameron P. Simmons
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:84
  20. In real-world clinical practice, the acceptance of anticoagulation therapy in the management of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in patients with cirrhosis is limited by the fear of an increased bleeding risk. Add...

    Authors: Xingshun Qi, Xiaozhong Guo, Eric M. Yoshida, Nahum Méndez-Sánchez, Valerio De Stefano, Frank Tacke, Andrea Mancuso, Yasuhiko Sugawara, Sien-Sing Yang, Rolf Teschke, Ankur Arora and Dominique-Charles Valla
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:83
  21. The increasing number and global distribution of pathogens resistant to antimicrobial drugs is potentially one of the greatest threats to global health, leading to health crises arising from infections that we...

    Authors: Simon I. Hay, Puja C. Rao, Christiane Dolecek, Nicholas P. J. Day, Andy Stergachis, Alan D. Lopez and Christopher J. L. Murray
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:78
  22. Despite decades of experience with praziquantel treatment in school-aged children (SAC) and adults, we still face considerable knowledge gaps relevant to the successful treatment of preschool-aged children (PS...

    Authors: Jean T. Coulibaly, Gordana Panic, Richard B. Yapi, Jana Kovač, Beatrice Barda, Yves K. N’Gbesso, Jan Hattendorf and Jennifer Keiser
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:81
  23. Innovative ways of delivering care are needed to improve outcomes for older people with multimorbidity. Health coaching involves ‘a regular series of phone calls between patient and health professional to prov...

    Authors: Maria Panagioti, David Reeves, Rachel Meacock, Beth Parkinson, Karina Lovell, Mark Hann, Kelly Howells, Amy Blakemore, Lisa Riste, Peter Coventry, Thomas Blakeman, Mark Sidaway and Peter Bower
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:80
  24. The CD4/CD8 ratio has been associated with the risk of AIDS and non-AIDS events. We describe trends in immunological parameters in people who underwent a switch to monotherapy or dual therapy, compared to a co...

    Authors: Cristina Mussini, Patrizia Lorenzini, Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri, Giulia Marchetti, Stefano Rusconi, Andrea Gori, Silvia Nozza, Miriam Lichtner, Andrea Antinori, Andrea Cossarizza and Antonella d’Arminio Monforte
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:79
  25. The relationship between long-term exposure to whole body or central obesity and cognitive function, as well as its potential determinants, remain controversial. In this study, we assessed (1) the potential im...

    Authors: Stefano Masi, Georgios Georgiopoulos, Tauseef Khan, William Johnson, Andrew Wong, Marietta Charakida, Peter Whincup, Alun D. Hughes, Marcus Richards, Rebecca Hardy and John Deanfield
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:75
  26. The appropriate limit to the amount of daily sedentary time (ST) required to minimize mortality is uncertain. This meta-analysis aimed to quantify the dose-response association between daily ST and all-cause m...

    Authors: Po-Wen Ku, Andrew Steptoe, Yung Liao, Ming-Chun Hsueh and Li-Jung Chen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:74
  27. Discretionary screen time (time spent viewing a television or computer screen during leisure time) is an important contributor to total sedentary behaviour, which is associated with increased risk of mortality...

    Authors: Carlos A. Celis-Morales, Donald M. Lyall, Lewis Steell, Stuart R. Gray, Stamatina Iliodromiti, Jana Anderson, Daniel F. Mackay, Paul Welsh, Thomas Yates, Jill P. Pell, Naveed Sattar and Jason M. R. Gill
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:77
  28. Reliable measures of disease burden over time are necessary to evaluate the impact of interventions and assess sub-national trends in the distribution of infection. Three Malaria Indicator Surveys (MISs) have ...

    Authors: Su Yun Kang, Katherine E. Battle, Harry S. Gibson, Arsène Ratsimbasoa, Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia, Stéphanie Ramboarina, Peter A. Zimmerman, Daniel J. Weiss, Ewan Cameron, Peter W. Gething and Rosalind E. Howes
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:71
  29. Effective coverage requires that those in need can access skilled care supported by adequate resources. There are, however, few studies of effective coverage of facility-based neonatal care in low-income setti...

    Authors: Georgina A. V. Murphy, David Gathara, Jacintah Mwachiro, Nancy Abuya, Jalemba Aluvaala and Mike English
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:72
  30. Chest radiographs are used for diagnosis and severity assessment in tuberculosis (TB). The extent of disease as determined by smear grade and cavitation as a binary measure can predict 2-month smear results, b...

    Authors: S. E. Murthy, F. Chatterjee, A. Crook, R. Dawson, C. Mendel, M. E. Murphy, S. R. Murray, A. J. Nunn, P. P. J. Phillips, Kasha P. Singh, T. D. McHugh and S. H. Gillespie
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:73
  31. Previous studies on high-risk opioid use have only focused on patients diagnosed with an opioid disorder. This study evaluates the impact of various high-risk prescription opioid use groups on healthcare costs...

    Authors: Hsien-Yen Chang, Hadi Kharrazi, Dave Bodycombe, Jonathan P. Weiner and G. Caleb Alexander
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:69
  32. Countries with ongoing outbreaks of Zika virus have observed a notable rise in reported cases of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS), with mounting evidence of a causal link between Zika virus infection and the neur...

    Authors: Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero, Mark J. Delorey, James J. Sejvar and Michael A. Johansson
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:67
  33. Failures and partial successes are common in technology-supported innovation programmes in health and social care. Complexity theory can help explain why. Phenomena may be simple (straightforward, predictable,...

    Authors: Trisha Greenhalgh, Joe Wherton, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Jenni Lynch, Gemma Hughes, Christine A’Court, Sue Hinder, Rob Procter and Sara Shaw
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:66
  34. After 7 years of increasing conflict and violence, the Syrian civil war now constitutes the largest displacement crisis in the world, with more than 6 million people who have been internally displaced. Among t...

    Authors: Rahma Aburas, Amina Najeeb, Laila Baageel and Tim K. Mackey
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:65
  35. The Daily Mile is a physical activity programme made popular by a school in Stirling, Scotland. It is promoted by the Scottish Government and is growing in popularity nationally and internationally. The aim is...

    Authors: Ross A. Chesham, Josephine N. Booth, Emma L. Sweeney, Gemma C. Ryde, Trish Gorely, Naomi E. Brooks and Colin N. Moran
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:64

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  36. Many clinical trials conducted by academic organizations are not published, or are not published completely. Following the US Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, “The Final Rule” (compliance d...

    Authors: Evan Mayo-Wilson, James Heyward, Anthony Keyes, Jesse Reynolds, Sarah White, Nidhi Atri, G. Caleb Alexander, Audrey Omar and Daniel E. Ford
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:60
  37. Implementation science has a core aim – to get evidence into practice. Early in the evidence-based medicine movement, this task was construed in linear terms, wherein the knowledge pipeline moved from evidence...

    Authors: Jeffrey Braithwaite, Kate Churruca, Janet C. Long, Louise A. Ellis and Jessica Herkes
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:63
  38. Little is known about the impact of growing migration on the pattern of tuberculosis (TB) transmission in middle-income countries. We estimated TB recent transmission and its associated factors and investigate...

    Authors: Julia Moreira Pescarini, Vera Simonsen, Lucilaine Ferrazoli, Laura C. Rodrigues, Rosangela S. Oliveira, Eliseu Alves Waldman and Rein Houben
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:62
  39. Antibodies targeting Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites play a key role in human immunity to malaria. However, antibody mechanisms that neutralize sporozoites are poorly understood. This has been a major constrain...

    Authors: Liriye Kurtovic, Marije C. Behet, Gaoqian Feng, Linda Reiling, Kiprotich Chelimo, Arlene E. Dent, Ivo Mueller, James W. Kazura, Robert W. Sauerwein, Freya J. I. Fowkes and James G. Beeson
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:61
  40. Methylene blue (MB) was the first synthetic antimalarial to be discovered and was used during the late 19th and early 20th centuries against all types of malaria. MB has been shown to be effective in inhibiting P...

    Authors: G. Lu, M. Nagbanshi, N. Goldau, M. Mendes Jorge, P. Meissner, A. Jahn, F. P. Mockenhaupt and O. Müller
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:59
  41. Poor adherence to either antiretroviral treatment (ART) or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can promote drug resistance, though this risk is thought to be considerably higher for ART. In the population of men w...

    Authors: Mingwang Shen, Yanni Xiao, Libin Rong, Lauren Ancel Meyers and Steven E. Bellan
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:58
  42. Most previous research on migrant health in Europe has taken a cross-sectional perspective, without a specific focus on the older population. Having knowledge about inequalities in health transitions over the ...

    Authors: Matias Reus-Pons, Clara H. Mulder, Eva U. B. Kibele and Fanny Janssen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:57