1 lessons from retrospective and cross sectional studies

... diseases: results from a European cross- sectional study (EU SHIPSAN PROJECT) Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:1 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage ... and Prevention: Preliminary Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Influenza-Like Illness Among Passengers and Crew Members on Cruise Ships 1999, Ref Type: Generic Zuckerman J: Review and ... SHIPSAN project was to draw information from competent authorities of EU MS regarding legislation and practice related to seafarer’s occupational health and gaps on occupational health services...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... Figure grated viral DNA and provirus HIV-1 life cycle and model of transcription from pre-inteHIV-1 life cycle and model of transcription from pre-integrated viral DNA and provirus Following HIV ... Figure and proviral DNA Model of transcription initiation from non-integrated DNA Model of transcription initiation from non-integrated DNA and proviral DNA (A) viral early transcription from nonintegrated ... [55,75] Direct evidence suggesting 2-LTR circles as active templates came from studies by Wiskerchen and Muesing [4] and Engelman et al [5] It was shown that integrase mutants with mutations...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... impact they have felt came not from risky lending, but from declining demand from consumers in North America and Europe There was no Asian Lehman Brothers splashed across the headlines, with revelations ... transparency and appropriate disclosure, and to define the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in running a company These principles are necessary to establish a stable and competitive business and, ... Business leaders in the east and west who understand the differences and can extract the best from both styles may stand to benefit On the other hand, underestimating the challenge can cause problems...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 21:30

... depleted Poland’s health system, leaving only 203 doctors per 100,000 population—a dismal ratio ranking Poland near the bottom in Europe, and only surpassed by Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania, ... Brazil, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Mexico, Thailand, and Sri Lanka—these states are succeeding in improving their public healthcare, including reproductive and sexual health services (Berer ... access to comprehensive, available and affordable healthcare, including services essential to reproductive and sexual health, and stable coverage for low income and medically underserved communities...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... environment of Arg80 Residues that are less than A from the Arg80 side chain are indicated (15 and 16) and to regions 45–49 and 101–103, which ˚ are less than A from the Arg80 side chain The overlay of ... for BS-RNase and 59.0 °C for hA-BS-RNase, i.e very close to each other In turn, significantly lower, and comparable, Tm values of 54.3 °C and 53.6 °C were found for S80-hA-BS-RNase and S80-BS-RNase, ... comparison of the melting temperatures and unfolding 0 enthalpy changes DHcal and DHv:H: values, both calculated from calorimetric profiles, are very similar and 0 the DHcal =DHv:H: ratio is in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... presentation • Set up the list of candidate risk factors • Study design and survey • Data analysis – Farm level information – Pond level information – Water quality and environmental parameter • Compare ... DOF/KU (Thailand) Use chlorine for pond preparation Nearby farm had EMS Farm and pondsize Source of PL PL stock density Total feed at 30 (refer Presentations by Dr Flavio Corsin and Dr Matthew ... information* • Part Water quality parameters* • Part Health history and health status • Part Other information Sample size required and Questionnaires complete province Soc Trang district Vinh Chau...

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 15:29

... human resources needs and disease prevalence in prisons and poor rural and urban settings need to begin from incentives provided during the basic training of physicians, nurses, and laboratory technicians ... poor knowledge and negative attitude of nurses vis-à-vis leprosy and tuberculosis patients [26] In recent years, institutional reforms have been implemented, and tuberculosis and leprosy training ... workers in rural and high prevalence tuberculosis regions of Nigeria, as NGOs and the private health sector continue to expand due to poor conditions of service in the public sector, and limited incentives...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... labour market, and often ignores health personnel's propensity to emigrate Bloor and Maynard consider it important to factor in the supply and demand of health personnel in the public and private ... approach, and on the specific problems that each methodology had to overcome A framework was adapted from Walt and Gilson [15] to analyse the following methodological and policy-making dimensions from ... forecasting availability of internal and external funds, and; (5) constructing an expenditures and funds database and modelling financing scenarios HRH needs were available from a previous assessment of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... DBB, AC and MM presented the study to patients, collected and assembled data BC and MP perform the data analysis and discussed results with other authors ZA and MP drafted the article and all ... Cite this article as: Andreis et al., Quality of life in colon cancer patients with skin side effects: preliminary results from a monocentric cross sectional study Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... between the development of skin toxicities (mainly rash) and the probability of getting a good response from the Andreis et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:40 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/40...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... 40–60 mmHg Dworetz and coworkers [43] applied the lessons from the study by Wung and coworkers, and compared 23 infants from the era of hyperventilation versus 17 infants from the era of ‘gentle ... pressure strategy, and (c) preterm baboons treated with high-frequency oscillatory ventilation Hematoxylin and eosin; 100× With permission from Yoder and coworkers [63] intermittent mandatory ventilation-treated ... significant Adapted from Azarow and coworkers [47] Infants with PPHN often present with severe hypoxemic respiratory failure, and as soon as HFOV and ECMO became available in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Diameter and cross- sectional area of the right and left IJV were not significantly different according to age and sex (data not shown) Table Demographic data, and diameter and cross- sectional ... IJV diameter, ± mm and ± mm, in 75% and 80%, respectively Right IJV cross- sectional area was greater than left IJV area in 71% of patients and was 1.5- and 2.0-times in 54% and 34% of cases, respectively ... left one, and to determine cross- sectional areas of both IJVs using CT scans and original automatic software Materials and methods This observational study was carried out between March and 31 July...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... European and Comparative Law and was dedicated to ‘current issues in financial and insolvency law: perspectives from France and the UK’ It represents the second gathering of French and English ... England and Wales (the position in Scotland and Northern Ireland is different in some respects, although similar in others) For ease of reference, this chapter will refer to ‘English law’ and ... and European trends in contract and tort Volume 11: Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law Editor Professor...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2016, 11:12

... of public and private facilities in each district, using a random starting point and fixed selection interval Doctors and nurses were selected at random from a list of all doctors and nurses ... selected at random from each stratum Three large hospitals (those with over 100 beds), 20 small hospitals, and 25 primary health clinics and/ or solo practitioners were randomly selected from the ... Department of Health and Family Welfare, and a random sample was taken of 70 large hospitals, 70 small hospitals, and 100 primary health centers, with health providers randomly selected from a list of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... CD95 and CD38, were analyzed by immunophenotyping and three-colour flow cytometry in 63 healthy individuals and 137 treatment-naïve HIV-1-infected subjects from Ouagadougou (urban setting) and ... with CD4+ T cell counts (Figure 4C and 5C), but the level of statistical significance was reached only in patients from Ouagadougou and not from Nouna In patients from both study sites, anti-CD95 ... patients and healthy controls in Nouna and Ouagadougou, collected clinical and laboratory data, performed immunological and virological measurements in the laboratories of the CRSN and CHUYO...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... grants from the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, Folkhälsan Research Foundation, and Wilhelm and Else Stockmann Foundation The skilled technical assistance of Anna Sandelin, Jaana Tuomikangas and ... observations in the studies of SOC and diabetes have dealt with acceptance of the disease and the subjective assessment of health state Based on the results from these previous studies, patients ... Central Finland Central Hospital: T Fors-lund, A Halonen, A Koistinen, P Koskiaho, M Laukkanen, J Saltevo and M Tiihonen; Central Hospital of Åland Islands: M Forsen, H Granlund, A.-C Jonsson and B...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... tenderness, dyscognition, and anxiety Recent studies in Europe have explored the impact of FM on HRQoL and other OMERACT domains more comprehensively; [13] however, few cross- sectional studies have been ... and severe Fibromyalgia: results from a cross- sectional survey in the United States Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:71 Page 13 of 13 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... contributions CS, MH, RB, AC and GZ were integral to this study and to the development of this manuscript MM, DG, and RG served as clinical reviewers and contributors to the analysis and discussion sections...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... competing interests Authors' contributions MM and ALP conceived of and designed the study, and acted as supervisors MM obtained and analysed the data, and prepared the initial drafts All authors ... through high (> 1:256) titres of antinuclear antibodies and antidouble-stranded DNA antibodies and those patients with positive histology from skin biopsies Details of these registries are described ... clinics and lupus registers were telephoned and invited to participate in the study Where telephones were not listed, case records and telephone directories were checked We established from preliminary...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... be applied to the specimen and its tendons at a magnitude and rate as occurs in gait (or as close as possible) Moving the specimen and loading the individual tendon and tibia/foot structures must ... conditions and under local infiltration of anaesthesia There are clear post study protocols for weightbearing and medical support Results and discussion What have we learnt about foot and ankle ... kinematics and we have consistently undervalued the contribution from mid- and forefoot articulations This suggests that in order to control foot pronation, orthoses need to provide support across...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... 1)) for CM and BCC risk Three cohorts (810 individuals with CM and 36,723 non-CM controls from Iceland; 1,033 CM cases and 2,650 controls from Sweden and 278 CM cases and 1,297 controls from Spain) ... color and poor tanning ability (80% in individuals with red hair color (RHC) and/ or fair skin, 20% in individuals with brown or black hair, and less than 4% in people with good tanning response) and ... with pigmentation phenotype and risk of cutaneous melanoma A comprehensive meta-analysis by Gandini and colleagues [13] revealed a direct link between pigmentation and melanoma risk There are...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... survey The study sample of these two repeated cross- sectional studies includes 6th and 7th graders from both 2001 and 2008 at these 27 schools Both studies were conducted in the September month ... fruit and vegetable intake in Norway from 2001 to 2008 in relation to gender and socioeconomic status - a comparison of two cross- sectional groups International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and ... gender and/ or SES and whether this moderating effect on changes in FV intake over time was mediated by accessibility and preferences of FV Methods Design and study sample In 2001, 48 schools from...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21