... detail of 5-year age bands, the analysis ofa single age group resulted in nearly identical ICERs as that ofthe 5-year age group it falls within For example, if a vaccination strategy was applied ... underestimated The underestimation of costs does have the advantage that it does not favour the vaccine arm and therefore represents a conservative approach A sensitivity analysis which varied all health ... i.e an 8% increase and a 12% decrease respectively In addition, the base case assumes that the efficacy ofthe vaccine is constant over the lifetime ofthe population, therefore an assumption of...
... a common forum for action the European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health was launched in March 2005 The Platform brings together all relevant players active at European ... diseases” I STATE OF PLAY AT EUROPEAN LEVEL I.1 Unhealthy diets and lack of physical activity are the leading causes of avoidable illness and premature death in Europe, and the rising prevalence ... national, regional or local level, and to cooperate with similar fora at national level At the same time, the Platform can create input for integrating the responses to the obesity challenge into a...
... type diabetes subjects Immunogenetics 2010, 62:101-107 36 Kawasaki E, Awata T, Ikegami H, Kobayashi T, Maruyama T, Nakanishi K, Shimada A, Uga M, Kurihara S, Kawabata Y, et al: Genetic association ... and state of activation, may not accurately reflect the status and behavior of their counterparts localized in thetarget organ In this latter regard, there is experimental evidence that the blood ... Health Center, 1650 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, H3G 1A4 , Qc, Canada Full list of author information is available at the end ofthe article thymic and peripheral CD4+ T cells in humans and mice, and...
... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 10 No Vonkeman et al with NSAIDs) with the appropriate pharmacoeconomic information Materials and methods The pharmacoeconomic evaluation was linked to a 26-month ... Chicago, IL, USA) Bootstrap analyses were performed using the software package S-plus (TIBCO Software Inc., Palo Alto, California, USA) professional version 6.0 Cost effectiveness To calculate the ... studies vary, they all used actual primary clinical data from trials and applied them to an economic model These data may however not always be generalised outside the controlled environment of the...
... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 10 No Vonkeman et al with NSAIDs) with the appropriate pharmacoeconomic information Materials and methods The pharmacoeconomic evaluation was linked to a 26-month ... Chicago, IL, USA) Bootstrap analyses were performed using the software package S-plus (TIBCO Software Inc., Palo Alto, California, USA) professional version 6.0 Cost effectiveness To calculate the ... studies vary, they all used actual primary clinical data from trials and applied them to an economic model These data may however not always be generalised outside the controlled environment of the...
... that these clinics may not be representative of other rural areas in the district Additionally, the survey was based at the health facility and therefore only mothers seeking antenatal care at ... widowed The number of women pregnant forthe first time (prime gravida) was the same in the rural and urban areas Radio ownership was high in both rural and urban areas but higher in urban areas Table ... were administered to mothers attending antenatal clinics in rural and urban parts of Mbarara, a district in southwestern Uganda The PMTCT program in Mbarara district started in August 2002 at Mbarara...
... planned and performed the operation TGV interpreted the CT angiography and gave specific information about the vascular anatomy ofthe pelvic kidney All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... tomography angiography ofa 59-year-old patient revealed an asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm, and a solitary pelvic kidney, and the composition ofthe renal vasculature One renal artery ... literature describing the management of CSPK with AAA Kaplan et al first presented a patient with a single renal artery arising from the right common iliac artery [7] The AAA was successfully repaired...
... models and may enable targeting of modifiable causes of non-response The E-couch program has been developed on a platform that is immediately scalable, thus making it a practical prevention program ... Biology and Environment, Australian National Page of University, Australia 2ORYGEN Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia 3Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation ... prevention trial and Research Assistant to Professor Christensen PJB Expertise in statistical analysis and data management of large-scale behavioural research studies, and experience in the design and...
... Statistical analysis Continuous demographic variables were analysed using two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and categorical demographic variables by a Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test A p-value ... p-value of < 0.05 was considered significant Further information on statistical analysis is given in the Additional file 4: Statistical analysis The primary efficacy variable was the number of exacerbations ... Pierre Arvis, Bayer Schering Pharma, medical expert; Julie Russell, Bayer Schering Pharma, lead statistician; Barbara Hampel, Bayer Schering Pharma, clinical lead; and Jeff Alder, Bayer HealthCare,...
... performing a meta-analysis of comparative trials studying the effect ofthe administration of antibiotics via the respiratory tract on the colonization ofthe respiratory tract by bacteria and development ... language were allowed to be included in our meta-analysis Data extraction The data extracted from the articles for further analysis were the study population, the dosage and the duration ofthe administered ... Clin Trials 1986, 7:177-188 Mantel N, Mocarelli P, Marocchi A, Brambilla P, Baretta R: Stratified analysis of multivariate clinical data: application ofa Mantel-Haenszel approach Stat Med 1983,...
... treatment with APC was started before the initiation of injurious ventilation Therefore, it remains unknown at present whether inhaled APC would be beneficial if initiated after the lungs have ... whether inhaled APC can prevent or minimize primary or secondary lung damage when low tidal volumes are used for mechanical ventilation Abbreviations APC, activated protein C; ERK, extracellular-regulated ... exposed to large tidal volumes, an important clinical issue Additionally, low-tidal-volume ventilation has become the standard of care in critically ill patients because of studies showing that its...
... cultural and local adaptation In the months after the central training, all intervention centres planned the adoption ofthe intervention by the local stakeholders Plans for cultural and local adaptations ... where an existing platform was already available The establishment ofthe community platform and the school working groups enabled adaptation to the local culture and circumstances and ensured the ... cultural adaptation The primary aim of integrating opportunities for cultural adaptation was to implement a culturally equivalent version ofthe overall intervention framework in all participating...
... overview ofa patient's asthma control with a quick glance Patients assume active role in their health care Implementation: The Asthma Task Force developed an Asthma Test, Asthma Management Plan, and ... 1) In Navajo asthma patients, perceptions of asthma and beliefs about the activity of asthma medications influence when and how often asthma medicines are taken, as well as the use of health services ... within the health centers The Asthma Task Force developed medical record documents to facilitate superior asthma care (including an Asthma Test, Asthma Management Plan, and Asthma Action Plan),...
... former case, there is the advantage of studying reactions to real art and the disadvantage that any two works of art differ from each other in several different respects, so that the actual factor ... et al., 2006) Another major difference among the three studies is the task that participants were asked to perform Kawabata and Zeki (2004) asked their participants to rate the beauty ofthe ... preference have been captured by two ofthe reviewed studies: the representation of reward value and the awareness ofthe emotional state The cortical processing ofthe magnitude ofthe reward of the...
... framework, QARLA, that addresses such issues Given a set of manual summaries and another set of baseline summaries per task, together with a set of similarity metrics, QARLA provides quantitative measures ... estimates the quality of an automatic summary a ∈ A, given a set of models M and a similarity metric x An obvious first attempt would be to compute the average similarity ofa to all model summaries ... compare the summary with the models in M With Q, we can compare the quality of automatic summaries • A measure KM ,A (X) ∈ [0, 1] that estimates the suitability ofa set of similarity metrics X for...
... The application of disinfectants via a foamer allows for better visualization of where product has been applied and also prolongs the contact between the chemicals and the surfaces. Application of disinfectants via a foamer enhances their effectiveness ... The same process occurs when entering the chamber from the inside ofthe building via the internal door. An external view ofthe double door chamber v The chamber must also contain an exhaust fan designed to clear all the air in ... or an animal air space within the facility. Once animals/personnel have entered and both doors are closed, the fan is turned on and allowed to run forthe designated time period. A view ofthe exhaust fan within the chamber...
... often the case that a grammar assigns just one ofa range of logically equivalent representations to a sentence; designers of grammars for use in analysis generally take care to ensure that the ... translation application Similarly, the transfer rules of Zajac (1990) express a relation between subparts ofa single complex structure Such an approach does not appear suitable forthe appl/cation ... from the source representation to atarget representation, and from this to an expression in thetarget language The first and last of these are to be performed by parsing and generation with natural...