Animal-assisted psychotherapy for pediatric chronic pain: case series of an open pilot study to test initial feasibility and potential efficacy (Publications)
To date, however, AAIs have not been examined in pediatric chronic pain. METHODS: The aim of this open pilot study was to examine the initial feasibility of recruitment and potential efficacy of an an [...] revealed that patients and their parents had a positive attitude towards AAIs. CONCLUSION: Our initial open pilot study is the first to investigate AAIs in the context of pediatric chronic pain. Notably, we
Crisis management by HIV/AIDS non-governmental organisations in the post-Euromaidan Ukraine led to opening new horizons (Publications)
Purpose Civil society played a significant role during and after the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, which led to the resignation of President Yanukovich and his government and triggered a series of polit
Cause of death estimation from verbal autopsies: is the open response redundant or synergistic? (Publications)
of the deceased. The VA includes both Closed Questions (CQs) with structured answer options, and an Open Response (OR) consisting of a free narrative of the events expressed in natural language and without
A pyridyl-furan series developed from the Open Global Health Library block red blood cell invasion and protein trafficking in <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
discover new drug targets and to develop new medicines against these targets. We therefore screened the Open Global Health Library of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, of 250 compounds against the asexual blood
The quality of OpenStreetMap food-related point-of-interest data for use in epidemiological research (Publications)
We assessed the quality of food-related OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in urban areas of five European countries. We calculated agreement statistics between point-of-interests (POIs) from OSM and from Google
Hepatitis A vaccine for immunosuppressed patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective, open-label, multi-centre study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis A vaccine is the most frequently used travel vaccine, yet data are scarce about its ability to induce protection in patients with concurrent immunosuppressive treatment. We asses
Software application profile: opal and mica: open-source software solutions for epidemiological data management, harmonization and dissemination (Publications)
improvements in health. To address this, Maelstrom Research proposes Opal and Mica, two inter-operable open-source software packages providing out-of-the-box solutions for epidemiological data management, [...] conducting more complex federated analyses involving statistical models. Availability: Opal and Mica are open-source and freely available at [ www.obiba.org ] under a General Public License (GPL) version 3, and
drLumi: an open-source package to manage data, calibrate, and conduct quality control of multiplex bead-based immunoassays data analysis (Publications)
Multiplex bead-based immunoassays are used to measure concentrations of several analytes simultaneously. These assays include control standard curves (SC) to reduce between-plate variability and norma
Efficacy and safety of tribendimidine versus praziquantel against <em>Opisthorchis viverrini</em> in Laos: an open-label, randomised, non-inferiority,... (Publications)
praziquantel administered in two doses, in participants with O viverrini infection. METHOD: We did an open-label, randomised, non-inferiority, phase 2 trial in children (8-14 years) and adolescents and adults
