Adverse childhood experiences screening in pediatric primary care and changes in the rate of visits to social work and behavioral health by Sonya Negriff, Margo Sidell, Lee Barton, Mercie J. DiGangi

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Socio-Demographic and Preoperative Clinical Factors Associated With 5-Year Weight Trajectories After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy by Sahil Patel, MD, Chen Jiang, PhD, Brandon Cowan, MD, Jie Yin, MS, Catherine Schaefer, PhD, Sanjoy Dutta, MD, Rouzbeh Mostaedi, MD, Hélène Choquet, PhD

“…This retrospective study conducted in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California region included 7698 patients who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) or sleeve gastrectomy (SG) between January 2009 and March 2015. …”
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Unhealthy alcohol use and risk of coronary heart disease among young and middle-aged adults by Jamal S. Rana, Felicia W. Chi, Isaac Acquah, Stacy A. Sterling

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Fatal H1N1-Related Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy in an Adult by Yu-Jin Lee, D. Scott Smith, Vivek A. Rao, Robert D. Siegel, Jon Kosek, Carol A. Glaser, Alexander C. Flint

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Patient Perspectives on Personalized Risk Communication Using Polygenic Risk Scores to Inform Colorectal Cancer Screening Decisions by Shauna R. Goldberg, MPH, Linda K. Ko, PhD, Li Hsu, PhD, Hang Yin, MS, Charles Kooperberg, PhD, Ulrike Peters, PhD, MPH, Andrea N. Burnett-Hartman, PhD, MPH

“…Methods: From May 2022 to June 2023, 20 Kaiser Permanente Colorado members aged 46–51 years who had been offered colorectal cancer screening but had never completed it signed consent to provide a saliva sample for colorectal cancer polygenic risk score analysis. …”
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Development and validation of an EHR-based risk prediction model for geriatric patients undergoing urgent and emergency surgery by Edward N. Yap, Jie Huang, Joshua Chiu, Robert W. Chang, Bradley Cohn, Judith C. F. Hwang, Mary Reed

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Iron deficiency and symptoms in women aged 20–49 years and relation to upper gastrointestinal and colon cancers by Jean-Luc Szpakowski, Lue-Yen Tucker

“…Our aim was to determine the association of IDA and symptoms with cancers.Design Retrospective cohort study within Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Participants were women aged 20–49 years tested for iron stores and anaemia during 1998, 2004 and 2010 and followed for 5 years for outcomes of oesophageal, gastric and colon cancers. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…The chapter succinctly outlines key events such as the death of Kaiser Wilhelm, the brief reign of his son Freidrich III, wo passed away in just 99 days after his coronation, and the ascension of son Wilhelm II as the last Kaiser. …”
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Determining whether ethnic minorities with severe obesity face a disproportionate risk of serious disease and death from COVID-19: outcomes from a Southern California-based retrosp... by Qiaowu Li, Hemesh Mahesh Patel, Shefali Khandwala, Poonam Somani, Stephanie Tovar, Alejandra Montano

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Use of Diagnostic Laparoscopy for Identification of Bilateral Noncommunicating Hydroceles in an Infant with Right-Sided Abdominoscrotal Mass and Left-Sided Scrotal Mass by Kian Asanad, Pooya Banapour, Monica Metzdorf

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Knowledge, Awareness, Perceptions, and Use of Emergency Contraceptives among Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence by Kathleen J. Wilder, Jeane-Marie Guise, Nancy A. Perrin, Ginger C. Hanson, Rebecca Hernandez, Nancy Glass

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Identifying pre-diabetes ‘hotspots’ in Northern California using geospatial analysis: opportunities to target diabetes prevention strategies and improve health equity by Tannaz Moin, Luis A Rodriguez, Obidiugwu Kenrik Duru, Julie Schmittdiel, Tainayah W Thomas, Maher Yassin, Yelba Castellon-Lopez

“…We used health system and census data to identify pre-diabetes hotspots using a systematic five-step geoprocessing approach that made use of incremental spatial autocorrelation and Getis-Ord Gi*.Setting This study was set in Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), an integrated health delivery system with over four million members.Participants KPNC adults ages 35–70 who underwent a haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) or fasting plasma glucose (FPG) screening test in 2019 were mapped to census tracts in Northern California. …”
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Sebaceous Carcinoma of the Penis: A Rare, Dangerous Clinical Entity and the Importance of Immunohistochemistry in Diagnosis by Vikram Sahni, David S. Cassarino

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SOX5-Null Heterozygous Mutation in a Family with Adult-Onset Hyperkinesia and Behavioral Abnormalities by Michael Zech, Katharina Poustka, Sylvia Boesch, Riccardo Berutti, Tim M. Strom, Wolfgang Grisold, Werner Poewe, Juliane Winkelmann

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Adolescent TV Use by Donna Davis

“…However, in a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, researchers renamed this younger group as 'Generation M' to stand for media influence in their lives. …”
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Scales’ validity and reliability for pain assessment. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Cienfuegos 2023 by Jayce Díaz Díaz, Ariel Efrén Uriarte Méndez, Zulema Sánchez Acosta, Yuliett Mora Pérez, Felicia Rodríguez Solís

“…Construct validity with Kaiser Meyer Olkim (KMO) 0.902 and Bartlett chi square test of sphericity = 1921.253. …”
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Adolescent TV Use by Donna Davis

“…However, in a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, researchers renamed this younger group as 'Generation M' to stand for media influence in their lives. …”
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Long-Term (10-Year) Gastrointestinal and Genitourinary Toxicity after Treatment with External Beam Radiotherapy, Radical Prostatectomy, or Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer by Grant K. Hunter, Chandana A. Reddy, Eric A. Klein, Patrick Kupelian, Kenneth Angermeier, James Ulchaker, Nabil Chehade, Andrew Altman, Jay P. Ciezki

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Creating a typology of parishes in England and Wales: Mining 1881 census data by Kevin Schürer, Tatiana Penkova

“…Principal component analysis is used in order to identify and eliminate unimportant attributes within the data and the aggregation of the remaining attributes. By combining Kaiser’s rule and the Broken-stick model, four principal components are selected for subsequent data modelling. …”
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Transient Behaviour of Superconducting Magnet Systems of Fusion Reactor ITER during Safety Discharge by A. M. Miri, S. Fink, W. H. Fietz

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