The "exposed" group was composed of patients treated with PP for moderate to severe ARDS.
Finally, our sample was composed of patients with CM and with no psychiatric comorbidities.
A disadvantage of the study is that the population was composed of patients who visited the Self-Defense Forces Hospitals.
In addition, our cohort was characterized by patients under effective immunomodulation and therefore was composed of patients with inactive disease.
Patients and Methods: We used a multicenter retrospective cohort study design and a sample composed of patients treated for mandibular fractures.
This retrospective study was composed of patients who were diagnosed with alveolar cleft and who underwent alveolar bone grafting at the Gangneung-Wonju National University Dental Hospital from January 2007 to December 2013.
The control group (C) was composed of patients hospitalized simultaneously in the three ICUs for other reasons than infection and who did not develop sepsis nor required any inotropic or vasopressor agents during their ICU stay.
The study population was composed of patients assisted and treated by the "Fundo de Assistência Médica do Exército" (Medical Assistance Fund of the Brazilian Army SAMMED/FUSEX) at the Recife Military Area Hospital (HMAR) from the Odontological Clinic.
This paper considers whether social networks composed of patients and their social circles can compete with, or complement, professional networks in assembling health-related information of value for improving health and health care.
The cohort of 145 subjects was composed of patients with recent onset (<10 days, mean 5.8±0.5 days) AF (AF-group; n = 87) and matched patients without documented and subjective history of AF (control group; n = 58; Figure 1).
This hypothesis is compatible with the fact that the strongest predictive power of this gene was seen in a data set primarily composed of patients which received adjuvant chemotherapy before surgery.
