the patient s and family s experience with critical illness

... systems, 79% for carbon dioxide systems, 81% for foam systems, and 88% for halogen systems (Wet chemical systems may be included with dry chemical systems or with other special hazard systems.) ... extinguishers), Foam systems (which may include some wet chemical systems and some miscoded portable extinguishers), and Halogen systems (which may include some wet chemical systems and some miscoded ... pipe sprinklers, 26% for dry (or possibly wet) chemical systems, 17% for carbon dioxide systems, 3% for foam systems, and 4% for halogen systems For major property classes and sprinklers, the estimated...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 09:20

... assess the quality and appropriateness of the systems established to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, policies and procedures; • the operational audit, the aim of which is to assess the ... includes the internal audit department s findings and recommendations, as well as the auditee s responses It also discloses the items on which a consensus exists at the end of the assignment The ... establishes and maintains an adequate and effective system of internal controls, a measurement system for assessing the various risks of the bank s activities, a system for relating risks to the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... and financial reports; - the means of safeguarding assets; - the bank s system of assessing its capital in relation to its estimate of risk; and - the management and financial information systems, ... which the staff has consulted is not compromised The IIA s Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (the IIA s Standards) address issues relating to internal auditors performing ... quality and appropriateness of the systems established to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, policies and procedures; • an operational audit aims to assess the quality and appropriateness of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 02:20

... Russia is unavailable, other subsidiary indicators justify the use of bi-currency basket s weights for this purpose The bi-currency basket is the operational target of the CBR and consists of the ... dummy variables The results are shown in Table 25 Table Cointegration vectors (t-statistics) Variable M Estimation method S2 S FM-OLS S2 S Y FM-OLS S2 S W FM-OLS S2 S OC FM-OLS S2 S UNC FM-OLS Model M1 ... driven money demand shocks) Identifying these shocks and their macroeconomic consequences is a crucial task for monetary analysis Using money demand models to assess the degree of correspondence between...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... all customers Consequently, tiered pricing reduces the amount by which low-risk customers subsidize the costs of serving high-risk customers For the card issuer, the economic success of this strategy ... products as customers have been freed from their binding relationships with banks and other depository institutions In the past the customer s own bank was frequently the lowest cost source for ... and to disclose the names and addresses of recipients of reports upon request from the consumer Disclosure to the consumer also aids in ensuring that the information included in the file is correct...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... instruments, such as the Euroqol 5D [15] Responsiveness of the OHS to change has been found to be greater than generic measures such as the SF-36 [16,18] and disease specific measures such as the ... of patients annotated answers they provided on the OHS, suggesting that the patients felt that the questions were inadequate to suitably express themselves Five general themes emerged from the ... Dorman PJ: Doctors and patients don't agree: cross sectional study of patients' and doctors' perceptions and assessments of disability in multiple sclerosis BMJ 1997, 314:1580-1583 Janse AJ, Gemke...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... acceptable standard was achieved Dissatisfaction is defined as discontent, or failure to satisfy It is possible that consumer is satisfied unless something untoward happens, and dissatisfaction is triggered ... Health Center The accessibility of health care can be assessed in various aspects: the possibility for residents to see their doctor; to use the services of health care system; the provision of population ... evaluating the patients’ satisfaction with the health care accessibility, it is necessary to assess the coherences between the patients’ state of health and the availability of health care evaluations...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2015, 18:36

... primers were used as sequencing primers Sequence analysis The chromatogram sequencing files were inspected using Chromas 2.2 (Technelysium, Queensland, Australia), and consensus sequences were ... RT-PCR tests; JM performed the sequencing experiments; AF, KZ, RB and DS supervised the rotavirus surveillance program and critically revised the manuscript; MVR and TA supervised the study Acknowledgements ... (Qiagen/Westburg, Leusden, The Netherlands) was used according to the manufacturer 's instructions for the extraction of rotavirus RNA from the stool samples Because of the natural variation in the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... primers were used as sequencing primers Sequence analysis The chromatogram sequencing files were inspected using Chromas 2.2 (Technelysium, Queensland, Australia), and consensus sequences were ... RT-PCR tests; JM performed the sequencing experiments; AF, KZ, RB and DS supervised the rotavirus surveillance program and critically revised the manuscript; MVR and TA supervised the study Acknowledgements ... (Qiagen/Westburg, Leusden, The Netherlands) was used according to the manufacturer 's instructions for the extraction of rotavirus RNA from the stool samples Because of the natural variation in the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... Thornicroft and A Kassam Box 12.1 Service user accounts (1) ‘Perhaps the reason that science struggles in the face of mental illness is that the illness is somehow bound up with their personality This ... causes When a disabled person faces problems, it is assumed that the impairment causes them It is assumed that the disabled person is a ‘victim’ It is assumed that disability is central to the ... mental illnesses, they will never recover Mental illnesses are brought on by a weakness of character Psychiatric disorders are not true medical illnesses like diabetes Mental illness is the result...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... This measurement allows partitioning between bone versus soft tissue and fat versus lean tissue in pixels of the body where there is no overlaying calcified tissue The assessment techniques described ... version 8.1 to estimate the bone mineral mass, the bone mineral content, the fat mass and the fatfree mass The DXA device measures the attenuation of the two energy X-ray beams crossing the tissue ... hydrocortisone therapy has been associated with increased muscle protein catabolism [38] – although the rates of muscle wasting seen in the present patient during her ICU stay were consistent with those...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... interests Published: 25 February 2010 References Myhren H, Ekeberg Ø, Tøien K, Karlsson S, Stokland O: Posttraumatic stress, anxiety and depression symptoms in patients during the first year post ... endogenous patient- related characteristic, personality traits, is independently associated with PTSD and depressive symptoms after hospital discharge This finding should stimulate further investigation ... fully understand the role that these and other critical illness/ ICU-related exposures could have in adversely affecting the mental health of ICU survivors Myhren and colleagues’ study of PTSD, general...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... a patient with SS (nd, not determined; ns, not significant) observed for the Vλ repertoire, this suggests a positive selection of these mutations in the parotid gland Discussion The present study ... lymphoma Histological studies suggest that inflamed ductal epithelial cells represent the focus of the inflammatory response in the salivary glands of patients with SS There is clear evidence of ... gland B cells in this patient In this regard, VκA27 was frequently used by RFs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis [17] RF is typically present in sera of patients with SS [18] and was also detected...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... premises situate in the parish of St Werburgh, in the city and county of Bristol, in the county of Gloucester, and lying on the south-west side of Small Street, and the east side of St Leonards ... hours, instead of three days John Palmer was lessee and manager of the Bath and Bristol theatres, and went about beating up actors, actresses, and companies in postchaises, and he thought letters ... Norfolk and Suffolk service by his assertion of the enormous expenses of the new beyond the old system, and his strange declaration that the number of letters sent by the Bath and Bristol post had...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 02:20

... facilities (NSLS, SSRL, ALS, and APS) and NSF is the steward for two (SRC and CHESS) CHESS, at Cornell University, is parasitic to CESR, the Cornell Electron-positron Storage Ring Other synchrotrons ... models in user facilities in other countries The strengths and weaknesses of the current stewardship models, either simple stewardship or steward-partner, are also discussed 10 At various institutions ... in the early 197 0s, surpasses all U .S continuous neutron sources, while the ISIS facility in the United Kingdom, commissioned in 1985, eclipses all U .S pulsed sources The ILL and ISIS are, respectively,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... versus exaggerated forms, and why artists and scientists have often considered truth and beauty as two sides of the same coin Processing Fluency The Concept of Processing Fluency The processing ... processing experiences of the beholder, but these processing experiences are themselves, in part, a function of objective stimulus properties and the history of the perceiver 's encounters with the ... processing dynamics: The more fluently the perceiver can process an object, the more positive is his or her aesthetic response This proposal entails four specific assumptions First, objects differ...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... bias Free gifts such as sun glasses and facial cosmetics could be used in the future, in response to a patient' s response and could bolster patients impressions quite cost effectively This research ... between satisfaction scores and age, job, and education The gender aspects of these results were the same as Hall [29] However, these results differed from former research studies, such as Sorlie 's ... manuscript drafting, statistic and interpretation, and manuscript submission AB served as a LASIK consultant, assisted with data collection and assisted with methodology design CYH was responsible...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (to MLB) References Conclusion This paper describes a genotype–phenotype correlation in PDB cases with a mis-sense mutation in the p62/SQSTM1 gene These results should ... all these treated subjects cTotal bone scintigraphy was not performed on this subject; the skeletal extent of PDB is on the basis of X-ray evaluations bone biopsy showed the presence of an osteogenic ... of the forward and reverse sequences was performed on an ABI Prism 3100 Genetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) Results Clinical data Suspicion or diagnosis of PDB was based...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... pineoblastoma seems necessary Despite the small patient cohort, the results of this analysis support those of other published series Page of Impact of exact histological grading In terms of overall survival ... resection This increases the likelihood of misdiagnosis, since in small tissue samples potentially less-differentiated tumor cells might be missed This may also explain the disparity between the ... suggested a further differentiation amongst the PPTIDs, differing those with less than mitoses and positive immunolabeling for neurofilaments (less aggressive) from those with or more mitoses...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... contributions FS is responsible for data acquisition, literature research and writing of the manuscript ES is responsible for data acquisition, statistical analysis and writing of the manuscript SN is ... possible risks in a matter of decades in case of success IMRT was feasible even if anaesthesia was necessary and resulted in good local control rates for this group of children who represents ... radiotherapy in unresectable or relapsing cases They are difficult to treat for because of the same surrounding risk structures as discussed above Especially with respect to the benign nature of these...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20