... assess the likelihood of bacterial infection and influence antibiotic use in patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected lower respiratory tract infection The use of PCT to guide ... viral infections PCT levels have been used to determine the presence of bacterial infection in the setting of acute respiratory distress syndrome3 and se...
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... instituting continuous sedation Furthermore, using more comfortably modes of mechanical ventilation may reduce the need for sedation It remains to be seen how these novel ways of decreasing sedation ... groups in the incidence of accidental extubations, the need for CT or MRI brain scans, or ventilator-associated pneumonia This study is innovative as it attempts to push t...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21
THE PATH TO PROSPERITY A BLUEPRINT FOR AMERICAN RENEWAL pdf
... | March 20, 2012 10 A BLUEPRINT FOR AMERICAN RENEWAL A Nation Challenged The challenges this nation faces are among the largest in its history For years, bad policies ... propose a path forward, and then attack them for political gain This budget offers a better path The following report lays out the challenge – and the choi...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu THE ''''FAT TAX'''': ECONOMIC INCENTIVES TO REDUCE OBESITY pdf
... in nine sites They observed sales from the machines before the experiment, and then reduced the price of the low-fat goods by 50% for three weeks After that, the prices returned to their old levels, ... price to encourage a switch to lower-fat milk, it may be possible to provide vouchers to mothers of young children to enable them to obtain it at the lower, pre-tax p...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
What is known about the effectiveness of economic instruments to reduce consumption of foods high in saturated fats and other energy-dense foods for preventing and treating obesity? docx
... Anise A (2006) What is known about the effectiveness of economic instruments to reduce consumption of foods high in saturated fats and other energy-dense foods for preventing and treating obesity? ... generated from What is known about the effectiveness of economic instruments to reduce consumption of foods hig...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
Cancer Research UK’s strategy 2009–2014: Cancer Research UK’s aim is to reduce the number of deaths from cancer. Our future plans are ambitious, but they are in line with the challenge and the responsibility we face. docx
... with cancer, it is imperative that we accelerate our progress in tackling this terrible disease Our future aims are ambitious, but they are in line with the challenge and the responsibility we ... research into behavioural change relating to tobacco control and sun awareness - Increase our investment in symptom awareness and early diagnos...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21
USE OF BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY TO REDUCE FRAUD IN THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM: FINAL REPORT docx
... accepting of the technology Finger Imaging and Fraud Reduction Assessing the ability of finger imaging to reduce fraud is difficult because the amount of fraud caused by duplicate participation in ... categories, use of binning or filtering increases the likelihood of a false non-match.5 Most of the States with finger imaging systems in operation use...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo khoa học nông nghiệp " Irrigating rice crops with waste water to reduce environmental pollution from catfish production in the Mekong Delta " doc
... profit In the farmer survey in An Giang, rice crops irrigated with wastewater had t/ha extra yield The extra income from t of rice is millions VND The other benefit from using wastewater to irrigate ... need to be considered for the management of wastewater During the wet season, there needs to be a means of treating wastewater other than irrigating rice fi...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20
NEED AND METHODS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND REDUCE RICE LOSSES DURING RICE PRODUCTION IN MEKONG RIVER DELTA pptx
... losses in rice production in Mekong River Delta (MRD) Need and methods to improve quality and reduce losses in rice production in MRD Dr Hoang Bac Quoc Need and methods to improve quality and reduce ... reduce losses in rice production in Soc Trang Province Tran Thi Phung Nga Need and methods to improve quality...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article Use of the Location Inverse Solution to Reduce Ghost Images" pdf
... value due to the sum of the in-phase curves and then generate false objects in the imaging field Figure shows a schematic view of the generation of a ghost image due to the intersections of the different ... mainly due to the inherent disadvantage of the imaging algorithm using ellipse curves To further suppress the ghost image, we introduce the approac...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " Enhancing the capacity of Vietnam to reduce the losses of grain and grain quality in storage through improved training " doc
... need to train trainers in further development of new training modules and use of the package Adoption and integration of the CAL-based training system into the training regimes of the participating ... facing staff involved in management of quality of grain in storage: grain drying, moulds and mycotoxins, and pests The package was integrated...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo y học: "The anti-vaccination movement and resistance to allergen-immunotherapy: a guide for clinical allergists" ppt
... With a clinical history that dates over a century, a high vaccination rate of infants in the industrialized world, and an availability of annual vaccines against influenza, immunization efforts are ... Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology [http://www.csaci ca/index.php] 75 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology [http://www aaaai.org/] 76 Isolauri E, Huurre A...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo y học: "Most recent developments in strategies to reduce the progression of structural changes in osteoarthritis: today and tomorrow" doc
... factor in the development and/ or progression of OA changes As previously mentioned, among the inflammatory factors the proinflammatory cytokine IL-1β plays a central role in OA pathophysiology ... sIL-1R, increasing the binding affinity of IL-1α and IL-1β to type II sIL-1R by approximately 100-fold, while leaving unaltered the low binding affinity of IL-1Ra to...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20
báo cáo khoa học: " Implementation of case management to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in the Stanford and San Mateo Heart to Heart randomized controlled trial: study protocol and baseline characteristics" pps
... simultaneously intervene to reduce multiple risk factors for a disease, such as CHD Randomized clinical trials have established the efficacy of intensive case management intervention to reduce multiple cardiovascular ... to continue receiving on-going care from their PCPs They received a folder at the conclusion of the baseline visit including handouts from t...
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