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Stephen Duffy

- Verified email at qmul.ac.uk - Cited by 53961

Siobain Duffy

- Verified email at sebs.rutgers.edu - Cited by 7227

Sean Duffy

- Verified email at camden.rutgers.edu - Cited by 3191

Cannabinoids for medical use: a systematic review and meta-analysis

PF Whiting, RF Wolff, S Deshpande, M Di Nisio, S Duffy… - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Cannabis and cannabinoid drugs are widely used to treat disease or alleviate
symptoms, but their efficacy for specific indications is not clear. Objective To conduct a …

Rates of evolutionary change in viruses: patterns and determinants

S Duffy, LA Shackelton, EC Holmes - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2008 - nature.com
Understanding the factors that determine the rate at which genomes generate and fix
mutations provides important insights into key evolutionary mechanisms. We review our …

Update of the Swedish two-county program of mammographic screening for breast cancer

L Tabàr, G Fagerberg, SW Duffy, NE Day, A Gad… - Radiologic Clinics of …, 1992 - Elsevier
The results of the Swedish two-county trial of mammographic screening for breast cancer
are presented, updated to December 31, 1990, which is an average of 10.8 years' follow-up …

[HTML][HTML] PD-1 blockade in tumors with mismatch-repair deficiency

DT Le, JN Uram, H Wang, BR Bartlett… - … England Journal of …, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Somatic mutations have the potential to encode “non-self” immunogenic
antigens. We hypothesized that tumors with a large number of somatic mutations due to …

[HTML][HTML] Once-only flexible sigmoidoscopy screening in prevention of colorectal cancer: a multicentre randomised controlled trial

WS Atkin, R Edwards, I Kralj-Hans, K Wooldrage… - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Background Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide and has a high
mortality rate. We tested the hypothesis that only one flexible sigmoidoscopy screening …

[PDF][PDF] Guidance on the conduct of narrative synthesis in systematic reviews

…, L Arai, M Rodgers, N Britten, K Roen, S Duffy - A product from the …, 2006 - Citeseer
The aims of this chapter are to:• Illustrate in practical terms the decision making processes
involved in the application of the guidance to a specific narrative synthesis• Identify factors …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of frailty on survival in patients with COVID-19 (COPE): a multicentre, European, observational cohort study

…, N Galbraith, E Bhatti, J Edwards, S Duffy… - The Lancet Public …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strain on health-care
systems. Frailty is being used in clinical decision making for patients with COVID-19, yet the …

Lexical complexity and fixation times in reading: Effects of word frequency, verb complexity, and lexical ambiguity

K Rayner, SA Duffy - Memory & cognition, 1986 - Springer
Two experiments investigated whether lexical complexity increases a word's processing
time. Subjects read sentences, each containing a target word, while their eye movements …

Swedish two-county trial: impact of mammographic screening on breast cancer mortality during 3 decades

L Tabár, B Vitak, THH Chen, AMF Yen, A Cohen, T Tot… - Radiology, 2011 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To estimate the long-term (29-year) effect of mammographic screening on breast
cancer mortality in terms of both relative and absolute effects. Materials and Methods This …

Perceiving an object and its context in different cultures: A cultural look at new look

S Kitayama, S Duffy, T Kawamura… - Psychological …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
In two studies, a newly devised test (framed-line test) was used to examine the hypothesis
that individuals engaging in Asian cultures are more capable of incorporating contextual …