Báo cáo y học: "The essential nature of healthcare databases in critical care medicine" pptx

... critically ill patients, and are now routinely utilized for assessing healthcare quality. As with Commentary The essential nature of healthcare databases in critical care medicine Greg S Martin Department ... or within a specific healthcare delivery system. In the field of critical care medicine, there are databases such as Project Impact Critical Care Medici...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... V, Martin A, Baron D, Pennec Y, Botton E, Mary JY, Le Goff P, Youinou P: Ability of the American College of Rheumatology 1987 criteria to predict rheumatoid arthritis in patients with early arthritis ... slightly lower NPV of 69% (95% CI 65% to 74%). Effect of localization of erosion Baseline erosions were present in the hands in 11.2% of UA patients, in the feet in 8.9...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) revealed the efficacy in reducing the decline of vital capacity (VC) and increasing the progression-free survival (PFS) time by pirfenidone. Recently, marginal decline in ... Nakata Clinic, Tokyo, Japan. 9 Dept of respiratory Medicine, Kyoto Preventive Medical Center, Kyoto, Japan. 10 Dept of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Jichi Medical Universi...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... patients included, the effect size, and often statistical tests of agreement with other trials. Meta-analysis may be particularly suited to critical care medicine. Trials in intensive care typically ... external validity should make meta-analyses fundamental components of the critical care literature. Unfortunately, meta-analysis in critical care can be misleading. A 199...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... reduction of 40% in 28 years. The rate of decline in the patient-to- doctor ratio has slowed after the study period, but cur- rently stands at 263:1 in 2008. The slowed rate of decline in available ... time and time again, the villain is managed care. In a reas where managed care is growing rapidly, it is systematically cutting out most chiropractors [21].” The claim of r...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... receptor-binding affinities that have a maximum or a minimum, but are essentially linear sufficiently far away from the zone of the turning point (the zone of the extreme value) [21,22]. However, by ... two linear segments, it is now possible to apply a unified model in a single fitting instead of performing two sepa- rate individual linear regressions after visually separating the da...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... Pre- diction of mortality in pediatric trauma patients: new injury severity score outperforms injury severity score in the severely injured. J Trauma 2003, 55:1083-1087. 10. Tay SY, Sloan EP, ... P: Comparison of the New Injury Severity Score and the Injury Severity Score. J Trauma 2004, 56:162-164. 11. Gennarelli TA, Wodzin E: AIS 2005: A contemporary injury scale. Injury 2006, 37:10...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... hyphae are then cov- ered with self-assembling layers of hydrophobic proteins (hydrophobins) encoded by the rodlin (rdl) and chaplin (chp) genes, and subsequently differentiate into chains of ... analysis of the response of Bacillus subtilis to ppGpp synthesis induced in exponentially growing cells by addition of the leucyl- and isoleucyl-tRNA aminoacylation inhibitor DL-norvaline...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... prevalence of inactivity. Lastly, opportunity cost savings need to be carefully interpreted. These savings will only be achieved by the adoption of effective interventions that will invariably have implementation ... parity of AUD1.48 [42]. Discussion The primary finding of this study is that a feasible reduction in prevalence of physical inactivity can lead to total potential opp...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... added value of ordinal analysis in clinical trials: an example in traumatic brain injury. Critical Care 2011 15:R127. Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient ... Significant Head Injury) Trial Collaborators Abstract Introduction: In clinical trials, ordinal outcome measures are often dichotomized into two categories. In traumatic...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21