the challenge of referral and treatment

... 80% of adults in the WHO European Region and up to one third of children The rates of obesity are rising in virtually all parts of the Region The costs to the health services of treating the ... The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the ... WHA55.25) The Regional Office will publish the research papers later this year This publication outlines the extent of the problem, the implications for the health sector and other sectors, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... frequency of measurement of these laboratory parameters of CKD–MBD The clinician should adjust the frequency on the basis of the presence and magnitude of abnormalities, and on the rate of progression ... BMD from the reference values of age- and gender-matched persons in the community The prevalence of low BMD is influenced by the age of the cohort, the number of men, the proportion of non-Caucasians, ... topic, the discussion on grading of the quality of evidence was led by the ERT, and the discussion regarding the strength of the recommendations was led by the Work Group Chairs Grading the quality...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... idea to rest In the seventeenth century, Grotius, the father of the freedom -of -the- seas doctrine, asserted that the vagrant waters of the sea should necessarily be free as neither navigation ... Indeed, the larger the fraction of damages borne by poor countries, the lower the monetized damages, the weaker the abatement policy, and the more damages they will suffer The root problem is, of ... horizon, the high degree of scientific and economic uncertainty (not unrelated to the centuries-long timescale), the scale of the damages that may arise, and the global character of the challenge...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:21

... terminations for the reason of ineffectiveness and terminated for the reason of toxicity This was done by censoring patients with treatment terminations other than the reason of interest in the respective ... clinical perceptions of rheumatologists The authors deal effectively with the challenges posed by the type and origin of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Saad AA, Ashcroft DM, Watson ... Threats to validity of observational studies on disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapies for rheumatoid arthritis: new aspects after the fall of the pyramid and the rise of new therapeutics Curr...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... ELCs from the apex to the hilar regions of the lung However, less than one-third of the images are necessary using the coronal view, and the image quality is better [19] The addition of coronal ... technology has improved with the advent of the multidetector row technique and the introduction of the spiral CT The MDCT permits reconstruction of coronal images There has been a growing trend ... [11,12] Although the exact mechanism of recurrence is not known, the presence of identifiable ELCs may be the most common cause of recurrent pneumothorax [13] Therefore, the resection of as many ELCs...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... Investigator) The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Drug Abuse or the National Institutes of Health ... have regarding the validity and ultimate value of the scientific process when applied to the needs of their communities, seeing this as another imposition of non-AI/AN worldviews on their communities ... sight of the distinctive characteristics of AI/AN communities and the programs that serve them and that these will likely require the development of tribally-specific approaches (e.g., the resurgence...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... contributed to the acquisition and the analysis of the data GM contributed to the study conception design and interpretation of data GT participated in the design of the study, and the drafting ... on the action of MP on the fiber system of DA (Fig 1), nor were there any adaptive changes in the GABAergic system in the prefrontal cortex or amygdala of afore traumatized gerbils There are to ... was also used in the current study, is particularly effective to cause disturbances in the developing rather than in the adult brain [32] Therefore, the early pharmacological challenge in our...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:20

... (95% CI: 0.60-0.94) The level of functioning was assessed by use of the split version of the Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF) [18] The GAF rating was carried out by the investigators, ... of patients consisting of both inpatients and outpatients at the time of the examination, might be more representative for the population of patients with schizophrenia at various stages of the ... revising the manuscript OAA: conception of the study, collecting data, analysis, drafting and revising the manuscript JIR: conception of the study and revising the manuscript IA: conception of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... participated in the design of the study and the analytical plan DEF participated in the design of the study, the analytical plan, the interpretation of the results, and assisted in drafting the manuscript ... participated in the design of the study, the analytical plan, the interpretation of the results, and assisted in drafting the manuscript They were also involved in preparing the resource utilization ... costing data of US-SCAP XP performed the expanded statistical analyses, participated in the design of the study, the analytical plan, and the interpretation of the results RRC assisted with the interpretation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... 0%] The results of the four studies[13,15-17] showed the HBeAg loss rate for the LdT group was 38.1%, while the LAM group response rate was 29.9% The difference of HBeAg loss rates at the end of ... estimate of the relative risk of LdT versus LAM by use of a random-effects approach The results of the five trials showed therapeutic response rates in the LdT group as 77.5%, compared to 68.2% in the ... 0.09); I2 = 58%] The results of the three studies[15-17] showed the therapeutic response rate for the LdT group was 67.9%, while the LAM group response rate was 52.1% The difference of therapeutic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... which are responsible for the production of IL-5 and other cytokines that promote the development of eosinophilia On the basis of our current knowledge of the differentiation of IL-5-producing TH2-like ... of Fas Co-culturing of T cells with IL-4 downregulates Fas expression on the cell surface The expression of IL-4 in the asthmatic lung and the secondary lack of Fas expression might explain the ... effective in preventing the death of activated T cells Of these, IL-4 and IL-15 are the most effective [11] Inhibition of apoptosis by IL-4 might be mediated partly by the ability of this cytokine to...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... flexibility so the therapy may be tuned to patient body size and severity of illness This process begins with recognition of key features of the inflammatory response The network of IM, acting ... molecular weight Mean molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of 30 kDa is shown in the table by the sign * and the MWCO of 50 kDa is shown in the table by the sign ** A large pore filter (polysulfone, ... networks may be manipulated by application of small changes in the activity to many network elements The more elements (e.g IM) affected, the smaller the change in their aggregate activity required for...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... /3) The larger the ICC is the more of the variance in the outcome variable, i.e source of referral, can be attributed to characteristics in the neighbourhood where the child/ adolescent lives The ... ethnicity) that affect the probability of the family being the source of referral tend to cluster in the same neighbourhoods Adjustment for the other individual-level variables reduces the Ivert et al ... and Iran who arrived during the 1980s; and refugees who arrived during the final decade of the 20th and the first years of the 21st century from the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet union, Iraq...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... k=1,2 The algorithm consists of four parts: the generation of the index matrix N, the determination of matrix L, the calculation of the condensed gametic relationship matrix G∗ , and finally, the ... (7a) (7b) where Ns(i),k is the index of the kth MQTL-allele (k = 1, 2) of the sire s(i) and Nd(i), j is the index of the jth MQTL-allele ( j = 1, 2) of the dam d(i) of Dependencies in gametic ...        0 r 1−r where the first matrix of the product is the matrix with the probabilities of descent for the marker alleles and the second is the matrix with the recombination rate r = 0.1...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... herniation: The herniation appears when the brain tissue goes through the holes inside the skull The ulcus, the temporal lobe, the cerebellar tonsils are the common parts of this complication The clinical ... p=0.404 With the level of below 40 mmHg, the mortality rate was 23.5% (20/85), the subgroup of 40-50 mmHg the mortality rate was 80% and the subgroup of 50 mmHg the mortality rate was 100%, the level ... cerebral perfusion pressure and the decrease of pulsatility index on Transcranial Doppler, which meant the improvement of brain compliance * The presentation of the study The thesis includes 112 pages,...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2014, 12:44

... HỘI The following figures aims to give some overview of the degree of acculturation reach by the respondents This map shows the level of identification of the respondents with their culture of ... been given the opportunity to come to Hanoi before the beginning of the assignment to get a general idea of the city and the country Most of the respondent expatriates are single, so there is no ... incorporates several of these variables that contribute to the expatriate success Firstly, to identify clearly the nature of the job and an assessment of the qualities and attitudes required by the expatriate...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2016, 11:30

... can try to think from the position of the objective observer or from that of the participative inquirer Which of all of these choices is made determines the kind of theory of strategy and organisational ... of them, the individual is the primary unit of concern Fourth, associated with this focus on the individual, is the notion of the organisation and the social as systems being constructed by the ... with the consequence of collapsing the potentially radical insights of these theories and the challenge to that dominant discourse The result is the re-presentation of existing theories in new language...

Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2016, 12:17

... vm_allocate_with_pager) or receipt of data in an IPC message In the first case, the source of the data is considered trusted (either the default pager, or a data manager known to the requestor) Use of the data received ... this example, the shared memory server may be located on either of the clients’ hosts, or on yet another host In the second frame, each client takes a read fault on the same page of the shared memory ... referenced the data of the array, the physical memory cache of the array would be directly accessible to the client with no further message traffic A large, well-managed memory cache of this kind...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... 450 000 by 1995 The number of men grew only marginally from 425 000 to 480 000 over the same period In defence, the number of men declined from 225 000 to 200 000, while the number of women rose ... women worked in the communications sector Twenty years later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and ... retail trade sector, where the number of women rose from about 550 000 in 1975 to almost 800 000 two decades later The number of men in this sector remained stable over the period, at around 700...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:02