therapy evaluation a useful tool for practitioners

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... Critical Care Vol 11 No Fagon et al Table Outcomes and antibiotics in the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group study [1] Endotracheal aspiration (n = 374) Bronchoalveolar lavage (n = 365) ... rate of targeted therapy was only 74.2% in the BAL arm, underlining the fact that, in many patients managed using this diagnostic technique, early deescalation was not performed although clearly ... Inappropriate use of antibiotics and the risk for delayed admission and masked diagnosis of infectious diseases: a lesson from Taiwan Arch Intern Med 2001, 161:2366-2370 Canadian Critical Care...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... Durieux Italy: Unit of Clinical Governance, Agenzia Sanitaria Regionale (Regional Health Care Agency) of Emilia-Romagna, Bologna Partner manager – Roberto Grilli Italy: Center for the Evaluation ... integrated and practical tool to assist QI researchers, healthcare professionals, and managers responsible for developing, delivering and evaluating CE and QI programmes at a national or regional level ... project It is a software program that packages information on the design and evaluation of evidence-based QI interventions into an integrated, easily accessible, and practical tool In this paper, we...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... Critical Care Vol 10 No Boyer and Levine failing if the therapy was administered, for example, at the end of cardiopulmonary resuscitation After all, when the myocardium dies, along with ... HIE Unfortunately, these questions are answered best by comparative clinical studies So, are we likely to ever see a clinical trial to ascertain the effectiveness of HIE therapy for the treatment ... few if any therapies are likely to satisfy any true measure of effectiveness It may also be that some patients are simply beyond recovery for any combination of therapies, even those that include...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24

... 344:699-709 Marti-Carvajal A, Salanti G, Cardona AF: Human recombinant activated protein C for severe sepsis Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2008, 1:CD004388 Maybauer MO, Maybauer DM, Fraser JF, Traber LD, ... global open-label trial ENHANCE: further evidence for survival and safety and implications for early treatment Crit Care Med 2005, 33:2266-2277 Abraham E, Laterre PF, Garg R, Levy H, Talwar D, ... Trzaskoma BL, François B, Guy JS, Brückmann M, Rea-Neto A, Rossaint R, Perrotin D, Sablotzki A, Arkins N, Utterback BG, Macias WL; Administration of Drotrecogin Alfa (Activated) in Early Stage...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... (brachytherapy) [7] iv) The standard initial systemic therapy for locally advanced or metastatic disease is hormonal or androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) that may be performed by bilateral orchiectomy ... Ishihara M, Kamiya N, Komiya A, Shimbo M, Suyama T, Sakamoto S, and Ichikawa T Bisphosphonate and low-dose dexamethasone treatment for patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer Hinyokika ... Neville A, and Tannock IF Economic evaluation of chemotherapy with mitoxantrone plus prednisone for symptomatic hormone-resistant prostate cancer: based on a Canadian randomized trial with palliative...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... hyperuricemia [21-24] Contemporary use of alkalinization, hydration and rasburicase at 0.10 mg/kg for 3-5 days maintains the same efficacy [25] Anyway, we may have favourable issues by changing the ... prevent and treat hyperuricemia include allopurinol and alkalinization, associated with an aggressive hydration Rasburicase presents various features that give it a more favourable profile than standard ... because each metabolic derangement is associated with remarkable clinical manifestations Hyperuricemia and hyperphosphatemia severely worsen renal functionality; hyperkalemia and hypocalcemia...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 14:59

... degradation (–ajsajs) and a second influence through its autocatalytic feedback (+ajsbjs) through the same reaction, vs The latter influences cancel each other, again as all stoichiometries are ... they are not branched and correspond to any step between two substances in graphs such as Graph (1), i.e any path that involves a single chemical reaction One actual chemical reaction may effect a ... ones that may and ones that cannot exhibit oscillations may be useful for the analysis of the existing models that are responsible for the oscillations Such an analysis may help to understand the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... interventions A New Tool for Scaling Impact 15 15 outcomes (such as smoking cessation) are achieved Foundations could act as payor via performance-based grants on projects that have large societal value, ... Collaboration with relevant government agencies will also be necessary to gain access to administrative data, such as Medicaid records Administrative data will allow evaluators to assess program ... risks, as well as financial and social returns, are properly articulated and managed They will require tools, such as a credit scorecard, that reflect an intermediary’s methodical and careful...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... of Japan SIG Notes NL-127, pages 173–178, September In Japanese Takashi Miyata, Kazuma Takaoka, and Yuji Matsumoto 1999 Implementation of GUI debugger for unification-based grammar In Information ... prepositional phrases are annotated manually The tags not always specify the correct structures based on rental-XTAG (i.e., the grammar assumed by tags is different from rental-XTAG), so we prepared a ... practical applications In Proc of the Workshop on Grammar Engineering and Evaluation, pages 15–21 Patrick Paroubek, Yves Schabes, and Aravind K Joshi 1992 XTAG – a graphical workbench for developing...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... 101–103 2094 A V Antonov et al 33 Okuda S, Yamada T, Hamajima M, Itoh M, Katayama T, Bork P, Goto S & Kanehisa M (2008) KEGG atlas mapping for global analysis of metabolic pathways Nucleic Acids Res ... reactions that share the same compounds In general, a reaction consists of multiple reactant pairs, and the one that appears in a KEGG metabolic pathway is called a main pair To build a global ... bioinformatics to provide a statistically valid interpretation of compound lists produced experimentally Currently, several bioinformatics approaches are available for metabolomics Each approach...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... well This would mean that the wordnet data for a given language would have to be stored in a relational database and that the tool itself can handle the language specific data structures of the ... displayed It is possible to edit the examples and frames associated with a lexical unit via the Examples and Frames tab Frames specify the syntactic valence of a lexical unit Each frame can have an ... frame can have an associated example that indicates a possible usage of the lexical unit for that particular frame The tab Examples and Frames is thus particularly geared towards the editing of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... Šoštanj area of Slovenia In the Šoštanj basin SODAR measurements were available only for an aproximately two month period during a measuring campaign (Elisei et al, 1992) The area of the basin and ... parameters on the following days were taken instead of prognostic values A two year data base was available for model construction and verification In this case only one pattern per day is available ... industrial plant The time available for the task was short and therefore it was not possible to perform one year of measurements, and only weeks of measurements were available The location was again...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... Successes and Future Directions Philadelphia, PA Christiane Fellbaum, editor 1998 WordNet: an Electronic Lexical Database MIT Press Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan 2001 Automatic generation of a coarse ... Navigli and Paola Velardi 2005 Structural semantic interconnections: a knowledge-based approach to word sense disambiguation IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), ... of a sense choice, marked in orange based on the validation policy, is just a proposal and can freely modified by the validator, as explained hereafter Before starting the interface, the validator...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... Ladouceur M, Barbeau H: A treadmill apparatus and harness support for evaluation and rehabilitation of gait Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1995, 76:772-778 Kamel HK, Iqbal MA, Mogallapu R, Maas D, Hoffmann RG: ... and balance in a wide range of categories of patients The system allows natural mediolateral APAs to occur across a wide range of gravity-like loads, an important balance related stimulus that ... with a removable pin The wheel base of a regular hospital bed has been modified to hold a pneumatic force actuator, a flat friction free surface that supports a back pack frame with air bearings,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... Fanjason Ramahaleomiarantsoa, Eric Jean Roy Sambatra, Nicolas Hộraud and Jean Marie Razafimahenina Chapter Dynamic and Quasi-Static Simulation of a Novel Compliant MEMS Force Amplifier by Matlab/Simulink ... Balogh, Pavel Zỏskalický, S Chountasis, V.N Katsikis, D Pappas, Mohammed Z Al-Faiz, Abbas H Miry, Ramy Saad, Sebastian Hoyos, Samuel Palermo, Momoh-Jimoh E Salami, Ismaila B Tijani, Abdussamad ... Daniel Havelka, Christophe Batard, Frộdộric Poitiers, Christophe Millet, Nicolas Ginot, Jacques Fanjason Ramahaleomiarantsoa, Eric Jean Roy Sambatra, Nicolas Hộraud, Jean Marie Razafimahenina, Ergin...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... Prokop, Walid Hassairi, Moncef Bousselmi, Mohamed Abid, Carlos Valderrama, Moulay Tahar Lamchich, Nora Lachguer, Gaizka Almandoz, Gaizka Ugalde, Javier Poza, Ana Julia Escalada, Oriol Font-Bach, Antonio ... Software for Design and Analysis of Electrical Machines 161 Gaizka Almandoz, Gaizka Ugalde, Javier Poza and Ana Julia Escalada Section Telecommunication-Communication Systems 185 Chapter MATLAB as ... Jiménez, Lara del Val, Alberto Izquierdo, Juan J Villacorta, Myriam Codes, Farhad E Mahmood, Muhammad Ahsan, Tapio Saramäki, Prashant M Menghal, A Jaya Laxmi, Libor Pekař, Eva Kurečková, Roman Prokop,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... the mean importance and performance of destination attributes VIII Analysis and Discussion Table 1: Importance Performance Means Destination attributes Mean Beach Backwaters Ayurveda Mountains/hill ... their ways of living Aranmula is famous for its ‘metal mirror’ and boat race There are also institutions like the Vaastu Vidya Gurukulam, which gives training in vaastu shastra and a school for ... s c o m [39] Bindu Narayanan, Chandrasekharan Rajendran, Prakash Saia, L, Ram Gopalan,“Dimensions of service quality in tourism – an Indian perspective”, Total Quality Management, Vol 20, No...

Ngày tải lên: 01/08/2014, 10:25

... surface area) and measurements of tree growth (annual basal area and bole volume increments) A strong allometric relation exists between the measured tree basal area and calculated crown surface ... Margolis HA (1992) Factors affecting the relationship between sapwood area and leaf area of balsam fir Can J For Res 22, 1684-1693 Dong PH, Laar A Van, Kramer H (1989) [A model for research on forest ... branches attached to the secondary branches From these data, we calculated the Cartesian coordinates (x,y,z) of the origin and tip of each growth unit A stem analysis gave basal area (at breast height)...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21