The most frequent pre-existing diagnoses were hypertension, diabetes and angina.
The most frequent pre-existing comorbid conditions in the two study populations were psychiatric comorbidities (Table 2).
Our data indicate that 40 mg tamoxifen daily, following chemotherapy, interferes with psychosexual well-being, causing different side effects of which hot flushes and impaired sexual function are most frequent, both in pre- and postmenopausal women.
Sonography is useful only for identifying testes in the inguinal canal (the most frequent location ) or the pre-scrotal region just beyond the external inguinal ring and should be the initial imaging procedure.
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is one of the most frequent morbidities affecting extremely pre-term infants.
The most frequent study design was pre-post, followed by prospective, population based case series or consecutive case series, and randomized trials.
The aim is to expose the possible factors affecting the initiation period of stress corrosion cracking, the most frequent form of failure of pre-stressed concrete structures.
In summary, for the most frequent professionalism lapses at the pre-clerkship stage, students recognized that by far their student peers were the most common person implicated in lapses involving impairment, arrogance, and breach of confidentiality.
The most frequent study designs included a pre-post design (61 studies), followed by 56 studies that applied a prospective design, 27 population based case series, 23 consecutive case series, 13 randomized trials, 15 non-blinded trials, 16 nonconsecutive case series, 5 double-blinded trials, and 6 best-case series.
Of those students who witnessed a lapse of professionalism, the six most frequent categories reported at the pre-clerkship level were: arrogance (42.2%), impairment (24.2%), cultural or religious insensitivity (20.5%), breach of confidentiality (16.8%); and both lack of conscientiousness and abusing power asymmetries ranked fifth (12.4%).
