Báo cáo khoa học: "Survival methods, including those using competing risk analysis, are not appropriate for intensive care unit outcome studie" docx

... alive. This will give the sameCommentarySurvival methods, including those using competing risk analysis, are not appropriate for intensive care unit outcome studiesDavid SchoenfeldProfessor of ... censored are not appropriate [1]. The CIF and the Fine and Grey models are also not appropriate when total mortality is the outcome because deaths after the patient leaves the hospital are not included ... number not for citation purposes)CIF = cumulative incidence function; ICU = intensive care unit. Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/1/103AbstractThe preferred analysis for studies...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Impact of computerized physician order entry on medication prescription errors in the intensive care unit: a controlled cross-sectional trial"

... of intensive care and general care units. Crit Care Med 1997, 25:1289-1297.12. Herout PM, Erstad BL: Medication errors involving continuouslyinfused medications in a surgical intensive care unit. ... J Med Inform 2005,74:377-386.33. Tissot E, Cornette C, Demoly P, Jacquet M, Barale F, Capellier G:Medication errors at the administration stage in an intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med ... Intensive Care Department, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium5Professor in Pharmacy, Head of Pharmacy Department, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium6Professor in Intensive Care, Head of Intensive...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Multiresistant coagulase-negative staphylococci disseminate frequently between intubated patients in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit" pptx

... staphylococci; ICU = intensive care unit; NCCLS = National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards; PFGE =pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.AbstractIntroduction The intensive care unit is burdened ... multidisciplinary intensive care unit Christina Agvald-Öhman1, Bodil Lund2and Charlotta Edlund31Consultant in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Huddinge ... prospective cohort study in a surgical intensive care unit. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2002, 23:127-132.19. Bonten MJ: Infection in the intensive care unit: preventionstrategies. Curr Opin...

Báo cáo khoa học: " How to compare adequacy of algorithms to control blood glucose in the intensive care unit" pptx

... level for ‘normality’ in intensive care patients waschosen, the AUC of the ROC remained below 0.65 and thusremained a poor predictor as compared with otherparamaters. For example, Acute Physiology ... throughout intensive care. The observation by Vogelzang and coworkers[1] of a slightly better AUC of the ROC when the HGI used acutoff of 6–8 mmol/l as compared with 4–6 mmol/l does not provide ... 152Critical Care June 2004 Vol 8 No 3 Van den Berghewas relatively poor although perhaps statistically a little betterthan for the other markers of blood glucose control. Whateverthe cutoff level for...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Clinical review: Moral assumptions and the process of organ donation in the intensive care unit" pptx

... CL, WebbSA, Wlody GS, Hurford WE: Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: The Ethics Committee of theSociety of Critical Care Medicine. Crit Care Med 2001, 29:2332-2348.57. ... covenant of care — administrative modelsand values affecting care at the end of life — updated. Crit Care Med 2003, 31:1551-1559.66. Levy MM. End-of-life care in the intensive care unit: can ... is an intensive- care activity, within the realm of end-of-life care [3,59–62], and is separate from, not a sub-specialty of, transplantation.As intensivists are responsible for the care of...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Survival rate in nasopharyngeal carcinoma improved by high caseload volume: a nationwide population-based study in Taiwan" docx

... in T aiwan is weakly e nforced, and people are freeto choose any phy sician. Because official performanceinformation to help consumers select healthcare provi-ders is not available, patients ... limitations. First, we could not assess the relation ship of caseload to NPC stage becausethis information was not available from the database.However, Begg et al., using a SEER-Medicare linkeddatabase, ... patients to high-volume physicians. Patients not seeking curative treatment or for whom curative treat-ment is not possible may continue to receive their care from low-volume physicians.Our study...

Báo cáo khoa học: Staphylococcus aureus elongation factor G – structure and analysis of a target for fusidic acid pdf

... region of S. aureus EF-G has electrondensity for all residues, including side chains, except for Gly84 (Fig. 3C). It has a different conformationcompared to the T. thermophilus EF-G structures(Fig. ... 3803a conformation that is distinctly different from whathas previously been observed for T. thermophilusEF-G. The fact that the two molecules in the asym-metric unit show identical conformations, ... con-formations, the switch II region also blocks the FA-binding site in all structures of free T. thermophilusEF-G (not shown). However, we do not believe thatthe alternative switch II conformations...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Rigid Grammars in the Associative-Commutative Lambek Calculus are not Learnable" pptx

... derivation is not in normalform as defined in (Tiede, 1998).6This is actually a normal form for Treeb, it couldalso be left-branching, for example. All the other pos-sible configurations are equivalent, ... position, i.e. for the type((Al B)IC) the domain subtypes are B and C. For the type (CVB\A)) the domain subtypes are C and B.A range subtype is a subtype that is in rangeposition, i.e. for the type ... necessary for theconstruction to work.Also note that the construction depends onthe presence of introduction and eliminationrules for the product, and cannot be (easily)adapted for a product-free...

báo cáo khoa học: " Growth characteristics and lipid distribution in two lines of chicken selected for low or high abdominal fat" docx

... lines was performed by analysis of covariance. Otherwise a Etest was performed to com-pare genotypes.ResultsLive weights of both lines and both sexes are given in Table ... regressionwith live weight are given in Table V. Results are similar to those of total lipids. Extra-abdominal triglycerides and their regression on live weight are presented in ... significant differences were found for abdo-minal fat but not for other fat deposits. Thereafter, significant differences were found for both abdo-minal triglycerides and...

Báo cáo khoa học: " Use of intranasal mupirocin to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in intensive care units" docx

... patient-days in acute care facilities and 3.42 in intensive care units (ICUs) [4].French intensive care experts had recommended that barrierprecautions should be implemented for patients colonised ... doses; ICU = intensive care unit; MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.Available online http://ccforum.com/content/9/3/R246R250 Competing interestsThe author(s) declare that they ... Critical Care Vol 9 No 3 Muller et al.R247implemented in all high -risk units of our hospital, including adult ICUs. Thus, all patients were screened for MRSA onadmission and...

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