Lancet
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Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) is still widely used to treat patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who have no access to sorafenib in Asia. However, the indication of TACE for these patients has yet to be established. We established an objective point score to guide this decision in patients with advanced-stage hepatocellular carcinoma. ⋯ This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81172037/H1606, 81272639, and 81572385), Guangdong province science and technology project of China (2013B021800159), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (13ykzd24).
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Healthy ageing is accompanied by simultaneous decline of visual and neural function. Studies in animals and humans provide converging evidence that these functions' decrease is mostly associated with structural change in ocular and brain structure. We investigated whether regaining visual function after ocular reconstruction was associated with functional and structural changes in the brain. ⋯ This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangzhou City (81570889, 81270980), the Science and Technology Program of Guangdong Province, China (2013B021800054, 2013B020400003, 15570001), and the Clinical Research and Translational Medical Center Program in Guangzhou City.
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Physician motivation to maintain public welfare has become the key for the New Public Hospital Reform in China. This study aimed to apply a different perspective, the psychological contract (a popular concept in business management research) and explore the correlations between physicians' psychological contract and their job satisfaction, intention to leave medical practice, and professionalism. ⋯ This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number 71203032), and the Shanghai Planning Project of Philosophy and Social Science (Grant number 2014EGL005).
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Hospitals are the main and last component of health-care systems. We aimed to assess the performance of Shenzhen's general hospitals during 2010-15, and to suggest ways in which to improve operation performance. ⋯ Health and Family Planning Commission of Shenzhen Municipality.
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Acquisition and persistence of tuberculosis infection are important epidemiological measurements for evaluation of tuberculosis transmission in a community. However, prospective population data on the incidence of tuberculosis infection have been sparely reported in the global literature. ⋯ National Science and Technology Major Project of China (2013ZX10003004-002, 2014ZX10003001-001), and Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of China (IRT13007).