... research, the value of a meta-analysis is directly dependent on the validity of each ofthe data points In other words, the quality ofthe meta-analysis can only be as good asthe quality ofthe research ... at an unbiased assessment ofthe best course of action Assessment of appropriate medical care should instead be derived through evidence- based process The role ofthe practitioner, then, is not ... the sensitivity and the specificity ofthe imaging test The third step is to incorporate the physician into the evaluation ofthe imaging intervention by evaluating the effect ofthe use of the...
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... by the authors to document the proceedings ofthe 2007 IOM Annual Meeting EVIDENCE- BASED MEDICINE ofthe national domestic agenda, the choice of EBM by the IOM Council asthe theme ofthe ... application, as well asthe prospect of new ways of meeting the need, provides the back-drop for the discussions at the 37th Annual Meeting ofthe Institute of Medicine (IOM) Entitled Evidence- Based ... 2006, the IOM convened the Roundtable on Evidence- Based Medicine Over the last years, the Roundtable has ex- 36 EVIDENCE- BASED MEDICINE plored, through its series of meetings and workshops on the...
... chronic asymptomatic disease They have a rash on their elbow and a little ringing in their ear and they’ll often consume time just unloading their frustrations If, on the other hand, there was an ... thiazides to at least one patient as a result ofthe intervention Their descriptions ofthe influence ofthe intervention can be broadly categorized into three themes: reinforced their existing ... inform their prescribing behavior (Table 2) Since the intervention was focused on influencing their prescribing behavior, the list of sources offered insight into the providers’ perceptions of other...
... chronic asymptomatic disease They have a rash on their elbow and a little ringing in their ear and they’ll often consume time just unloading their frustrations If, on the other hand, there was an ... thiazides to at least one patient as a result ofthe intervention Their descriptions ofthe influence ofthe intervention can be broadly categorized into three themes: reinforced their existing ... inform their prescribing behavior (Table 2) Since the intervention was focused on influencing their prescribing behavior, the list of sources offered insight into the providers’ perceptions of other...
... What was the content ofthe change at the project level, e.g., what in the system was changed to enhance, support and sustain use of an individual, targeted piece of evidence? What was the content ... the summarized findings will be used to assess each ofthe three RU/EBP models as to their degree of inclusiveness of key contextual elements identified by the case study These results will then ... use of a case study lies in the opportunity to collect multiple types of data enabling development of a comprehensive, in-depth picture ofthe influences of context on the routine use of evidence...
... improvement in their DAS28 The PPV ofthe administrative data -based effectiveness algorithm was 75%, and the NPV was 90% The sensitivity ofthe effectiveness algorithm was 75%, and its specificity was 90% ... disease activity scores (DAS), as assessed by physicians using the DAS28 [23] and the Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) [24], as well as a bio-repository with banked DNA, serum, and plasma ... Table Varying a hypothetical response rate as measured by the algorithm from 30 and 60%, the amount of bias compared to the true response rate ranged from – 21% The results ofthe second sensitivity...
... was to present a novel laboratory method determining the hydraulic permeability of sand layer based on the capillary rise (CR) theory In nature, this method was also based on the Darcy’s law The ... when the initial filling height of sand samples was lower than 20 cm, the inhibition effect ofthe gas among the pores on the capillary pressure during the CR process tended to be increasing, thereby ... of 0.3-0.4mm It can be seen that at the initial stage, there was a good agreement between the measured and prediction results by the Washburn equation of h ~ t When the inflection point S was...
... aspirations ofthe educated man The opinion ofthe Greek mind itself as to the character ofthe knowledge of God, to which the thought of their race had led them at the beginning ofthe Christian era was ... questions within the scope ofthe Christian Faith The function ofthe age ofthe Councils was the formulation and definition of Christian dogma upon the admitted basisofthe revelation of Jesus Christ ... those of atheism, because of their rejection ofthe gods of Greece and Rome; of immorality, because ofthe secrecy and mystery of their meetings, and cannibalism, because of their doctrine of the...
... grafting ofthe CDR loop of antilysozyme VHH functionalized NCS without denaturation, although the thermal stability was decreased and the affinity for lysozyme was weaker than in the original VHH The ... different species [23–25] The success ofthe series of studies shows that the stable framework structure of Fv enables the transfer of function by means of CDR replacement Barbas et al first designed ... functionalized the antibody fragments, but expression ofthe fragment was decreased and the binding affinity was weakened This might imply the importance of library approaches in specific local areas to...
... metzincin subfamily of metalloendopeptidases, the astacin family [32] The main functions of BMP1 ⁄ TLD-like metalloendopeptidases are ascribed to the proteolytic removal of C-propeptides from ... C protease as well as an activator of lysyl oxidase Therefore, an important role for hmeprina ⁄ b may be ascribed to tissue remodelling processes through the targeted regulation of ECM assembly ... metalloendopeptidases On thebasisof our findings, hmeprin may be considered as a signalling protease mediating direct and indirect cleavage and signal transduction functions as well as degrading of a number...
... depending on the verb class they occur with Second, we believe that adjuncts can be at least as revealing of verbal meaning as complements are: many of them are not productive (in the sense that they ... determined by the semantics ofthe corresponding NP These cases code an other semantic role – cause – in the case of verbs of existence (Table 2) It is important to note that we not dispose of a preliminary ... p(t|v) = f (v) with f (v) being the frequency ofthe verb, and f (v, t) being the frequency ofthe verb in the frame These values have been calculated for each ofthe 150 verbs and 839 frame types...
... are based on the syntactic part ofthe constituent label The conversion program is the same as used for the CoNLL-2000 shared task (Tjong Kim Sang and Buchholz, 2000) Head words of chunks are assigned ... head of a chunk, or the dummy value NOFUNC for all non-heads For creating the POS -based task, all words are replaced by the goldstandard POS tags associated with them in the Penn Treebank For the ... is the number of features, is a weight for feature , and estimates the difference between the two instances’ values at the th feature The classes ofthe nearest neighbors then determine the class...
... pepper–red, strawberry–red, massage–oil, raspberry–red Table 3: A comparison ofthe document -based model and the log-likelihood ratio on thebasisofthe cue–target pairs with the largest difference ... log−likelihood statistic compound based syntax based document based q q 10 context size Figure 1: Median rank ofthe strong associations features ofthe type subject of fly covered eight syntactic ... For the syntax -based and word -based approaches, we only took into account features that occurred at least two times together with the target For the word -based models, we experimented with the...
... known asthe Democratic Republic of Congo In these two instances the mortality rate was between 50 –90% Following those epidemics, Ebola hit Africa in many other instances the worst yet being in the ... motivation based on ideas of right and wrong when dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants This concept of can be used to explain the world’s shockingly small response to the ... the September 11 bombings in the United States, the locality of this virus has become less isolated asthe threat of bioterrorism looms large The Ebola virus is now on the “A” list for hopeful vaccination...
... independently ofthe ruling of law courts and of any human legislation The subject ofthe discussion was the lawfulness in any case at all of performing craniotomy, or of directly destroying the life ofthe ... following in the track ofthe wagon The farmer drove on faster, but they gained on him It was a desperate race to keep out of their reach At last they are just back ofthe wagon What can be done? The ... only for their own good, but also for the good of their patients and ofthe community at large The reasons are these: A The matters entrusted to their keeping are the most important of all earthly...
... of heat is released Thermodynamics is the science ofthe flow of heat and of its relationship to mechanical work The first law of thermodynamics is the principle of conservation of energy Energy ... 2003/10/30 — page 10 — #10 HEAT: THE THERMAL ENVIRONMENT 11 The magnitude of hc depends on the position ofthe surface, the direction ofthe heat flow and the velocity ofthe fluid For example • for ... with the mean temperature ofthe month, as Tn = 17.6 + 0.31 × To.av (1.7) where To.av is the mean temperature ofthe month (these coefficients are based on the work of Auliciems; several other...