arthritis ankylosing spondylitis and acute anterior uveitis patients from the netherlands

... (s-scores) for patients with and Standard difference scores (s-scores) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, peripheral PsA and axial Psa The values of the s-scores were ... (SF), and vitality (VT) One additional item pertains to health transition [18] The raw scores were coded and recalibrated following the standard guidelines, and the items were then summed and transformed ... Table There was no significant difference in the demographics and disease characteristics of those completing (799 patients) and refusing to complete the questionnaires and the clinical and radiological...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... includes the HAQ and SF-36 As part of the current study, from 1st August 2006 to 31st December 2007, patients were also asked to complete the EQ5D at baseline and the month assessment The data from these ... participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis and interpretation of data, and drafted the manuscript; ML participated in the design of the study and the statistical ... values, rather than a single imputation as performed here Furthermore, the ability to predict the SF-6D and EQ5D from the HAQ is complicated by the weighting of items in the EQ-5D and SF-6D profiles...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... to: enthesitis peripheral arthritis Organ involvement due to: anterior uveitis psoriasis There is evidence from the Berlin randomized, controlled trial and from case reports that anti-TNF therapy ... directly from the clinical studies performed, from publication of the cases reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or other agencies, from the data released by the drug companies, from ... definition and classification of the status of AS patients Because AS starts early and lasts long, and because the course and outcome of the disease differ greatly from patient to patient, the stage...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... to: enthesitis peripheral arthritis Organ involvement due to: anterior uveitis psoriasis There is evidence from the Berlin randomized, controlled trial and from case reports that anti-TNF therapy ... directly from the clinical studies performed, from publication of the cases reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or other agencies, from the data released by the drug companies, from ... definition and classification of the status of AS patients Because AS starts early and lasts long, and because the course and outcome of the disease differ greatly from patient to patient, the stage...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008: the Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2008 of the European Society ... Study limitations There are limitations to our study design and conclusions, related to the post hoc nature of the analyses Patients were not randomized into the study according to the beta-blocker ... contributed to analysis and interpretation of the data and to the manuscript draft EG contributed to analysis and interpretation of the data, critical revision of the manuscript, and important statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... 24 weeks Five trials in both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis (2,502 patients) lasted 12 weeks, and the other (7,968 patients) lasted 52 weeks (though the mean duration of exposure in all ... weeks (13 lasted six weeks), and five (16,956 patients) lasted 12 weeks One of the four trials (327 patients) in rheumatoid arthritis lasted weeks, the other three (2,905 patients) lasted 12 or 24 ... between celecoxib and its comparators The two largest trials, with over half the patients, gave patient years of exposure in the trial reports, and these were identical for celecoxib and NSAID In...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... dominance, but the search for synergies in order to achieve excellence Maximizing the best of the human and the technology is the real victory Hopefully the patient will be the ultimate victor Other lessons ... operating them This encourages a system where each checks the other and offers a second input We have yet to consider the design of acute care areas in similar terms In the meantime, there is no ... culture: The collective attitudes, beliefs, and values [3] Ideally, the combined layers of defense are impermeable In reality, there are weaknesses and the layers are – to borrow another analogy from...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... contributions The authors HM, OS and ØE made substantial contributions to the conception and design of the study HM, SK and KT completed the data collection HM performed the study and the statistical ... of 255 (61.7%) patients completed the first questionnaire and 194 of these completed the study at 12 months (Figure and Table 1) Although 27 of the 194 patients did not respond to the three-month ... chosen to include these 27 patients in order not to lose information We therefore used the 194 patients in the further analyses Patients lost to follow up (total n = 61; 35 at months and 26 at 12...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... cohorts the assessing physician or the nurse was asked to note on pre-printed forms the name and ID number of the patient, time of the request, whether the doctor requesting the admission was the patients ... responsibility Only patients referred from a GP or another referring doctor outside the hospital were included in the study, while transfers from other hospitals were excluded The first cohort of patients ... Results The physicians included patients to the study from October st until October 31st, 2008 and the nurses from May 1st until May 31st, 2009 39 hospital physicians (9 specialists and 30 other...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... provided by banks and reason that the causality of any correlation between the health of the banking system and economic activity runs from the real sector to banks Still others link the importance ... and a “world” market index as measures of the benchmark market return To construct the world market index, we gather 11 from DataStream the value-weighted returns from the US, Japanese, UK, and ... inside the event window For the results reported in the tables, we start the estimation 150 days prior to the start of the event window, include up to 40 days inside the window, and end the estimation...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... evaluation, since the nature of the data is different from that of the QA dataset Most of the questions asked over the Web target named entities like specific car brands, places and actors There is usually ... restrict results to the desired word sense In the QA scenario, if we are given the full question and not just the (object, attribute) pair we can add terms appearing in the question and having a strong ... value The goal now is to select an attribute value for the given object During the first stage it is possible that we directly extract from the text a set of values for the requested object The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... students to remove the cards from their envelopes and place them face down on the desks in front of them so that the cards are in sequence, with the card labeled “0–19” years on top and the card labeled ... experienced damage to these crit  ical genes as the cells moved along the path from the normal to the cancerous state Support for this idea came from the work of Bruce Ames and others who showed in ... students see they can extend and apply their understanding of cancer to the real world It also is important that they receive feedback on the adequacy of their explanations and understandings Evaluate...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... over the left (the prefix) and the right (suffix) context of the head for each syntactic category occurring as the mother node of such heads To give a simple example, the rightmost NP to the left ... name”) The value of the :cs feature is the constituent structure of the subcategorisation frame, which lists the syntactic CF-PSG constituents in sequence The value of the :gs feature is the grammatical ... 2000) and (Chen and Vijay-Shanker, 2000) extract lexicalised TAGs from the Penn Treebank Both techniques implement variations on the approaches of (Magerman, 1994) and (Collins, 1997) for the purpose...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... hemocyanins and tyrosinases were also well conserved in ST94 On the other hand, molluscan hemocyanins revealed that one of the ligands in the Cu(A) site is involved in the cysteine-histidine thioether ... using the molar extinction coefficient of MBTH-adduct at the isosbestic point wavelength taken from the literature [43] The Km and Vmax values for different substrates were obtained from the Hanes–Woolf ... molluscan hemocyanins and tyrosinases genetically diverged from their common ancestor, separately from the evolutional line of hemocyanins and phenoloxidases in arthropods, and that the divergence of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... marked In the novel COX sequence, 17 amino acids that are different from the 15R-COX of P homomalla from the Florida Keys are boxed, and the respective residues of the 15R-COX are given above the sequence ... form the disulphide bonds The residues that are different between the novel COX and the 15R-COX are dispersed along the polypeptide chain with most of them located in the C-terminal half of the ... reveals that the other 16 residues lie outside of the active site and mostly on the surface of the catalytic globular domain of the COX protein Protein expression and product analysis The cDNA was...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... When they had secured these, they could content themselves for the present at least Firstly, therefore, he tied up the silver spoons and knives and forks from the dinner table in a napkin, and ... came up with the brigands with their captives Just in the nick of time Hunston and Toro were there both with their hands full, while the Greeks had all their work to to take care of the two captive ... cries of fear and rage, dropped their arms and fled precipitately, panic-stricken The gendarmes followed them up, and several were knocked over and secured; and behind them the brigands had left...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... still the possibility of bias arising from the non-random re-districting of counties, which we discuss in greater detail in the next section, and address in the theory and empirical sections 10 The ... by a state law passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor (Tomio 2002) Counties receive transfers from both the federal and the state governments, and the incentives to create ... after the 1994 elections Thus the distance of the upstream station B to the nearest exiting border decreased from BD to BC, and the number of border crossings for the segment BF increased from...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... estimates from the random effects model and 2SLS estimation are similar to the OLS estimates, and the F-test cannot reject the hypothesis of no fixed effects and Hausman test cannot reject random ... Pulp and Paper, in 1998 over million tons were imported to the U.S., 87 percent of which came from Canada The rest of the imports came from Brazil, Chile, Finland, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain and ... banking, advertising, and gasoline and grocery retailers and cement (Weiss 1989, Schmalensee 1989, and Werden 1991, and Koller and Weiss 1989) and notwithstanding that there has been an active...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... the trust for customers The customers usually receive the leaflets after that they throw away or if they read it but they can’t remember information of the suppliers NEWSPAPER   STRENGTHS The ... inform people about different products and services and their utilities, cost and other requirements It helps consumers know what is the best option for them INFORMATIVE ENTERTAINING Advertising ... products such as singer, model when their fans saw their stars advertised in the television they will be interested in the purchase of that products because she/he is their idol For example, My Tam...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 15:10