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Sonia Thomas

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Sonia M. Thomas

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Patency rates of the arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

AA Al-Jaishi, MJ Oliver, SM Thomas, CE Lok… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Advantages of the arteriovenous fistula (AVF), including long patency and few
complications, were ascertained more than 2 decades ago and may not apply to the …

Comparisons of interventions for preventing falls in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

AC Tricco, SM Thomas, AA Veroniki, JS Hamid, E Cogo… - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Falls result in substantial burden for patients and health care systems, and given
the aging of the population worldwide, the incidence of falls continues to rise. Objective To …

Clinical and biological predictors of response to standardised paediatric colitis therapy (PROTECT): a multicentre inception cohort study

JS Hyams, SD Thomas, N Gotman, Y Haberman… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Lack of evidence-based outcomes data leads to uncertainty in developing treatment
regimens in children who are newly diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. We hypothesised …

Ulcerative colitis mucosal transcriptomes reveal mitochondriopathy and personalized mechanisms underlying disease severity and treatment response

…, TD Walters, G Gibson, SD Thomas… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Molecular mechanisms driving disease course and response to therapy in ulcerative colitis (UC)
are not well understood. Here, we use RNAseq to define pre-treatment rectal gene …

Interventions for preventing falls and fall‐related fractures in community‐dwelling older adults: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis

…, AC Tricco, SE Straus, S Thomas… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To compare the effectiveness of single, multiple, and multifactorial interventions to
prevent falls and fall‐related fractures in community‐dwelling older persons. Methods …

[PDF][PDF] Compositional and temporal changes in the gut microbiome of pediatric ulcerative colitis patients are linked to disease course

…, L Denson, H Vlamakis, EA Franzosa, S Thomas… - Cell host & …, 2018 - cell.com
Evaluating progression risk and determining optimal therapy for ulcerative colitis (UC) is
challenging as many patients exhibit incomplete responses to treatment. As part of the …

Cardiovascular disease in kidney donors: matched cohort study

…, L Storsley, S Klarenbach, N Lam, SM Thomas… - Bmj, 2012 - bmj.com
… professor7, Scott Klarenbach associate professor8, Ngan Lam nephrology fellow1 2,
Sonia M Thomas … Storsley, Ken Taub, Sonia Thomas, Darin Treleaven, Ann Young. …

Barriers and facilitators to uptake of systematic reviews by policy makers and health care managers: a scoping review

AC Tricco, R Cardoso, SM Thomas, S Motiwala… - Implementation …, 2015 - Springer
Background We completed a scoping review on the barriers and facilitators to use of systematic
reviews by health care managers and policy makers, including consideration of format …

Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment for retinal conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis

SM Thomas, E Lillie, T Lee, J Hamid, T Richter… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To evaluate the comparative effectiveness and safety of intravitreal bevacizumab,
ranibizumab and aflibercept for patients with choroidal neovascular age-related macular …

Prediction of peak ground acceleration using ϵ-SVR, ν-SVR and Ls-SVR algorithm

S Thomas, GN Pillai, K Pal - Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, a prediction model is developed using support vector machine for forecasting
the parameter associated with ground motion of a seismic signal. The prediction model is …