risk assessment for long term outcome

... no longer relevant This is a common problem in the total hip/knee replacement literature where long term outcomes are provided for prostheses no longer manufactured and surgical approaches no longer ... additional surgery long term This additional information should allow surgeons to provide realistic expectations for their patients regarding outcomes and should enhance the informed consent and ... performed) suggest that a longer -term look is needed to better understand the implications of our interventions The purpose of this study was to independently evaluate the long- term clinical outcomes...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... risk assessment in elderly people The role of repeated N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide testing J Am Coll Cardiol 2010, 55:441-450 Noveanu et al Critical Care 2011, 15:R1 http://ccforum.com/content/15/1/R1 ... Direct comparison of serial B-type natriuretic peptide and NT-proBNP levels for prediction of short- and long- term outcome in acute decompensated heart failure Critical Care 2011 15:R1 Submit ... 97 μmol/L) for men and 0.47 to 0.90 mg/dL (40 to 80 μmol/L) for women, the coefficient of variation is 5%, and the accuracy is ± 10% Noveanu et al Critical Care 2011, 15:R1 http://ccforum.com/content/15/1/R1...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... rate for obtaining removal efficiency of 80% for T-N and about 99% for NH4+-N, at the recycle ratio of 600% and C/N ratio of about was about m3/day, which means that about 2.3 days is proper for ... constant at about 2,200 mg/L for T-N and 2,000 mg/L for NH4+-N Effluent T-N under steady state condition was about 400 mg/L for the recycle ratio 400% and 330 mg/L for 600 % and declined to about ... Effects of Recycle Ratio 3.1 Nitrogen This test was performed for the effects of recycle ratio after about 50 days of stabilization period for sufficient adaptation of methanol to be inserted as...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... (2000) While for Usum the level exceed the permitted level by (75) times and for 60Co by (5000) times and for 137Cs by (3850) times and for 90Sr (97) times The skewness coefficient for the distribution ... fit to these data, with 95% confidence interval The risk assessment and sensitivity analysis for hotspot 1, 2, 3, and total risk are calculated for beta function at the mean of 1.34, 488, 20.1, ... most influence parameters Conclusion The risk assessment and sensitivity analysis charts shows significant risk for the selected hotspots zones The total risk is dominated by effect of the hotspot...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care © OECD 2011 Executive Summary What will be the effects of growing need for long- term care? Chapters ... WANTED? PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ● Improving productivity in long- term care Pay -for- performance initiatives in long- term care are limited to a few ... PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 17 Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care © OECD 2011 Summary and Conclusions Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care The...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... Guidance Note 2: Selecting storage media for long- term preservation Contents INTRODUCTION .4 SELECTION ISSUES .4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Longevity Capacity ... records It is intended for use by anyone involved in the creation of electronic records that may need to be preserved over the long term, as well as by those responsible for preservation This ... This guidance note provides information for the creators and managers of electronic records about the selection of physical storage media in the context of long- term preservation The scope of...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... Institute for Bioinformatics, GSF–National Research Centre for Environment and Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany (itetko@vcclab.org) Weida Tong, Center for Toxicoinformatics, ... Agonists and antagonists for adrenocortical hormones have been described Oral contraceptives are risk factors for increased blood clotting and stroke Estrogens are risk factors for breast and uterine ... ASSESSMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL The Toxicity and Risk of Chemical Mixtures 599 601 John C Lipscomb, Jason C Lambert, and Moiz Mumtaz 22 Environmental and Ecological Toxicology: Computational Risk Assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 17:29

... conditions For each PCR, forty cycles of amplification were performed with the following temperature profiles: 94°C for min, 55°C for min, and 72°C for for the outer primer set and 94°C for min, 60°C for ... isolation and long term replication were carried out in several phases: short term cultures (positive for HCV up to 10 weeks), medium term cultures (positive for 10–23 weeks), or extended term cultures ... individual patients for further analysis http://www.virologyj.com/content/2/1/37 Determination of optimum day for harvesting HCV for RNA extraction In order to determine the optimum day for harvesting...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... clinical, immunologic and virologic outcomes in the first year of HAART comparable to those observed in developed countries [4-14] Little is known about the longer term outcomes of these large-scale ... submitting it for publication 20 We would like to thank all the staff at TLC for their unyielding efforts on behalf of the patients We would like to thank all of our patients, for their trust ... the clinic Data from 7536 (99.4%) patients was available for analysis (Table 1) Forty patients were excluded due to missing demographic information and seven because of errors in recorded dates...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... from each other Only for Ec /Ior = 50% the coverage of strong blocks is above or equal to 95% for 384 kbps, but for 256 kbps the coverage value for strong blocks is above 95% for Ec /Ior = 5% This ... blocks For the reference BLER of 1%, the spread in Es /N0 values for different k values is much higher for weak blocks compared to strong blocks As a result, we observe a small coverage gain for ... This is particularly true for the high bit rate 384 kbps For the low bit rate the macrodiversity gain is not so substantial as the throughput performance is already good for a single radio link...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... though RBS and FTSP estimate the clock skew alongside clock offset using linear regression, they are insufficient in practice for longterm synchronization, for example, the shooter localization system ... is evident that the MLE performs well even for small N and hence suitable for the power limited regime of WSNs CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK Using a quadratic model for the relationship between ... results in long- term synchronization between nodes and consequently saves a lot of energy in terms of considerably less frequent resynchronization through timing message communications For future...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... Introduction The outcome of schizophrenia is highly variable and heterogeneous Despite good treatments, the long- term outcome of schizophrenia continues to be disappointing [1] Long- term studies ... included for follow-up assessment Improved Not improved Patients excluded from follow-up assessment due to changed diagnosis Patients excluded from follow-up assessment due to admission in the long- term ... recovery rate is within the range (16% to 75%) reported in other long- term studies (Table 4) [20-40] These results suggest that the long- term outcome of schizophrenia is similar in all regions and cultures...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... retrospectively evaluated the long- term outcomes of our adolescent and adult patients with pineal parenchymal gland tumors treated with radiation therapy, to identify outcome, possible prognostic ... than GTR The third category was “Biopsy only”, for patients considered inoperable, when a biopsy only was performed for obtaining the tumor histology For documentation of spinal seeding Chang M-stage ... CSI died within years after treatment, therefore no patient was at risk for growth retardation in our collective One Patient (7) had to be treated for complete panhypopituitarism 40 months after...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... hyperfractionated-accelerated radiochemotherapy between 1992 and 2005 for primarily inoperable advanced oro-and hypopharyngeal squamous Long- term side effects Most common long- term side effects documented were xerostomia ... concurrent platinum-based chemotherapy is an effective treatment option and offers a chance for long- term survival for patients with primarily inoperable, advanced HNSCC, which is still rare New and ... patients, including those with DM, are warranted This study’s aim was to evaluate the longterm treatment outcome at our institution as well as patterns of failure and help finding ways to improve...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... failed to identify associated aortic regurgitation as a risk factor for long- term survival The fact that univarite predictors of long- term mortality were diabetes mellitus, preoperative LVEF ... AR on long- term outcome following AVR due to severe AS For the problem to be worse, it is difficult to make direct comparisons of different studies due to differences in the methodology For example, ... 0.049) as the only independent predictor of long- term mortality term postoperative outcome, LV function and functional capacity in patients undergoing AVR for severe AS Preoperative characteristics...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... not for citation purposes) Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2009, 7:7 http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/7/1/7 Figure Long term observation of the terminal part of a nerve cell process Long term ... Niederkinkhaus for help with the cell culture, Maren D Lange for performing some SICM measurements, Stefan A Mann for helpful discussions, Rolf Heumann, Jan Meijer and the RUBION-team for continuous ... material Additional file Long term observation of the terminal part of a nerve cell process A movie composed of top views of the data presented in Figure Click here for file [http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/supplementary/14773155-7-7-S1.MPG]...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... 2.3 Criteria for Selection of Assessment Endpoints for Ecological Risk Assessments Policy goals and societal values — Because the risks to the assessment endpoint are the basis for decision making, ... quality of the assessment can be defended during audits A general quality assurance procedure for risk assessments performed for the Oak Ridge Reservation is contained in Risk Assessment Program ... historic information may have been developed for permitting or other regulatory purposes, for resource management, for research, for a monitoring program, for environmental impact assessments, or for...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20

... useful for screening assessments, but the dissolved form is appropriate for definitive risk assessments of aquatic biota for two reasons First, the form in the exposure assessment should match the form ... use of this formula is appropriate if one is concerned only about risks to biota in a receiving stream near the source, or if performing a screening assessment for a stream If the assessment must ... useful for scoping and screening assessments but are unlikely to be acceptable for definitive assessments Two different expressions of sediment contamination are commonly used in ecological risk assessments:...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20

... Anguiliformes Anguiliformes Atheriniformes Atheriniformes Atheriniformes Atheriniformes Gasterosteiformes Gasterosteiformes Perciformes Mean Weighted mean Y Variable Perciformes Tetraodontiformes ... Salmoniformes Salmoniformes Salmoniformes Cypriniformes Cypriniformes Taxonomic Extrapolation: Orders within Classes Cypriniformes 225 Siluriformes 203 Perciformes 443 Siluriformes 111 Perciformes ... Perciformes Tetraodontiformes Perciformes Gasterosteiformes Atheriniformes Cypriniformes Tetraodontiformes Perciformes Gasterosteiformes Tetraodontiformes Perciformes Tetraodontiformes n 190 12 34 46 46...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20