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... need to be monitored every 4-6 weeks, but those on LAM or ADV should be monitored every 3-6 months On-treatment monitoring should focus on medical adherence and Int J Med Sci 2005 2(1) 21 tolerance, ... treatment is superior to 16 weeks treatment [12] The predictors of response to LAM and ADV therapies are similar to those for IFN except that baseline HBV DNA may not be very important Individualization ... sensitive to LAM treatment [16] Indications of HBV Treatment Historically, levels of HBV DNA and ALT, and histological activity of liver biopsy have been used as the three main factors to determine...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:41

... Guide to Analysing Companies Guide to Business Modelling Guide to Business Planning Guide to Economic Indicators Guide to the European Union Guide to Financial Markets Guide to Financial Management ... “waste too much ink on numbers and devote too little to the information that really matters to intelligent investors” What really matters, suggested Sahlman, are four factors that are “critical to ... competitive advantage This forced firms to think more about their competitors and where they stood in relation to them rather than where they stood in terms of their own history Further reading Boxwell,...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... a group photo of the participants and facilitators Facilitators Facilitators needed to be knowledgeable on sea cucumber fisheries, have a broad understanding of regulatory measures, management ... workgroups to work through stock-health indicators for each country from the ACIAR Manager’s Toolbox Collation of stock indicators from all countries and discussion Discussion and listing management ... forward, the task still remains to assist fisheries agencies to use them to design new and practical management plans to save or restore sea cucumber fisheries To this objective, FAO, ACIAR, SPC...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:12

... What Every New Manager Needs to Know provides the tools and techniques needed to ease the transition to managing and the subsequent steps up the career ladder in management Yet while the tools ... WHAT EVERY NEW MANAGER [ NEEDS TO KNOW ] This page intentionally left blank WHAT EVERY NEW MANAGER [ NEEDS TO KNOW ] MAKING A SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION TO MANAGEMENT G E R A R D ... promoting What Every New Manager Needs to xv xvi A CKNOWLEDGMENTS Know; to Mike Sivilli, the associate editor; and to Lydia Lewis, the production manager It was my privilege and pleasure to work with...

Ngày tải lên: 08/05/2014, 09:42

... elderly patient to the ICU should not be restricted to short-term management of an acute disease but rather to allow her to recover from acute illness with a satisfactory quality of life To describe ... the emergency department ICE-CUB1 study Emergency triage ICU triage Too well Patients, N Too sick Too well Too sick Admitted to the ICU 1339 642 155 170 316 Hospital mortality (%) 6-months mortality ... reasonable: 1) not admitting to the ICU but instead admitting to a regular ward or an acute care for elderly unit; or 2) admitting selected patients to the ICU and promoting efforts to ensure a rapid ICU...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... Approach to Management encompasses this concept We have endeavored, with the help of an international group of contributors, to provide an up -to- date and authoritative account of the management ... cholecystectomy for more than 10 years; history of lower abdominal radiotherapy for more than 10 years; history of chronic colonic schistosomiasis; history of chronic appendicitis; Laboratory tests ... symptoms are symptomatic of colorectal cancer and diagnostic testing is indicated ①altered bowel habits (diarrhea, constipation, etc.); ② stool changes (thinning stool, blood stool, mucus stool,...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 19:20

... non-managerial employees • Describe how to classify managers in organizations What Is Management? • Define management • Explain why efficiency and effectiveness are important to management © 2007 Prentice ... of an organization is changing Why Study Management? • Explain the universality of management concept • Discuss why an understanding of management is important • Describe the rewards and challenges ... Exhibit 1–7 Management Skills and Management Function Matrix © 2007 Prentice Hall, Inc All rights reserved 1–21 How The Manager’s Job Is Changing • The Increasing Importance of Customers  Customers:...

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2014, 14:39

... adult has two to three colds per year, and each child has three to eight colds per year (9) Up to 80% of these upper respiratory illnesses may be associated with rhinosinusitis, equating to over one ... viral respiratory illnesses (10,11) An important area of disease leading to secondary bacterial sinusitis is obstruction at the ostiomeatal complex A variety of factors may lead to obstruction ... aggravating factors (e.g., atopy, immunosuppression, ostiomeatal obstruction, etc.) According to these authors, a complete classification of sinusitis according to these five axes is essential to tailor...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... year, with 5% to 10% progressing into ABRS (8) Due to this reason, children may be particularly susceptible to rhinosinusitis The time from onset of symptoms was found to play an important role ... of acute respiratory illness due to the common cold is two–three/year in the adult with 0.5% to 2% progressing into an ABRS (7) Children on average have six to eight upper respiratory infections ... patients with residual respiratory symptoms who develop new respiratory symptoms When treated with antimicrobials, these new symptoms resolve, but the underlying residual symptoms not The members of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... developed to assist in the understanding of the relationship between these factors One approach to the variety of proposed etiologies is to divide them into three categories: systemic factors, local ... throughout fetal life into the various processes that will form the mature ethmoid bone In the seventh to eighth week of development, five to six ridges begin to appear Three to four of these ridges ... lasting !7 to 10 days and absence of intervening signs and symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis Recurrent acute Same as chronic — Same as chronic ! major factors, 1 major factor or !2 minor factors major...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... The factors contributing to this disease process can be divided into systemic host, local host, and environmental factors Systemic host factors, such as genetic and autoimmune diseases, are important ... microorganisms native to the oropharynx are the alpha-hemolytic streptococci, which include Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus milleri, Streptococcus sanguis, Streptococcus intermedius, Streptococcus salivarius, ... coronal tooth surface, but constitute 4% to 8% of gingival crevice flora Veillonellae represent 1% to 3% of the coronal tooth surface, 5% to 15% of the gingival crevice flora, and 10% to 15% of the tongue...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... ketolide antibacterial to be approved for clinical use It is structurally related to the macrolides, but has a low propensity to select for or induce resistance to macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin ... to site Lack of drainage (anatomical blockage or due to medication) Persistence of predisposing risk factors Impaired host defenses Factors within the sinus cavity that may enable organisms to ... Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., U.S.A INTRODUCTION The growing resistance to antimicrobial agents of all respiratory tract bacterial pathogens has made the management...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... medications have long been known to be an effective delivery mechanism in management of lower respiratory tract infections (33,34) Recently, this delivery method is being used to treat acute exacerbations ... Buchaman CA, Yellon RF, Bluestone CD Alternative to endoscopic sinus surgery in the management of pediatric chronic rhinosinusitis refractory to oral antimicrobial therapy Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg ... symptoms are sufficient to interfere significantly with school or work, then surgery is a reasonable option (2) Prior to surgery, it is important to rule out non-sinus causes of a patient’s symptoms,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... of APCs to the lamina propria, to CD4 T-Helper and B cells Activated B cells begin to produce IgEs that in turn will bind to high-affinity IgE receptors of mast cells and basophils and to low-affinity ... antihistamines cannot selectively bind to H1-receptors, and therefore they also interact with dopaminergic, serotoninergic, and cholinergic receptors, leading to untoward effects such as dryness of ... Their Management 273 Table Common Organisms Isolated from Patients with Orbital Infections Aerobic bacteria Streptococcus spp.: Streptocococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus viridans, and Streptococcus...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... due to its ability to attach to the P aeruginosa biofilm, to have a faster growth, and to profit from the surface advantages of the biofilm (41) The biofilm-associated bacteria attain resistance to ... to be more aware of, particularly in refractory cases It could sometimes be worthwhile to stop the use of pharmaceuticals and only use physiologic saline rinse to find the basic level of symptomatology ... care There is increasing recognition of the need to attend to the upper respiratory tract to the same degree as the lower respiratory tract Otolaryngologists will likely care for increasing numbers...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... aggressive postoperative treatment with a number of new topical agents (Table 8) The use of topical steroids, topical diuretics, and topical antibacterial agents can result in symptom-free patients ... mechanism Downregulates inflammatory cytokines Downregulates inflammatory cytokines Decreases attachment of eosinophils to vascular endothelium Decreases attachment of eosinophils to vascular endothelium ... bacteria a-Hemolytic streptococcus Streptococcus faecalis Streptococcus milleri Staphylococcus aureus Haemophilus parainfluenzae Subtotal aerobes Anaerobic bacteria Peptostreptococcus species Veilonella...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... patients is frequently asymptomatic, it can be recurrent and refractory to usual medical management (47,48,70) Symptoms of sinusitis are often nonspecific and may be attributed to other causes Usually, ... notably Rhizopus species (31) Rhizopus is able to link to deferoxamine, using it as a siderophore to obtain iron, a necessary growth factor In contrast to acute invasive sinusitis, most patients ... 3) Histopathological examination is very useful in differentiating infection due to the zygomycetes, which show characteristic broad non-septate hyphae from infection due to other filamentous fungi...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... out to their IT managers to instruct them in the ways of IT and to fashion IT into a brave, finely-honed competitive advantage with which to vanquish their enemies N Dr Chen, Introduction to ... , DBMS, spreadsheet PC as DSS tool to access information stored in the center computer files to support management decisionmaking process Dr Chen, Introduction to Information Systems TM-4 Computer ... users can learn from the data how to satisfy their best customers how to allocate their resources most efficiently, how to minimize losses Dr Chen, Introduction to Information Systems TM-9 SYSTEM...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:22

... protein It determines whether the virus is able to bind to and infect cells of different species by its ability to attach to carbohydrate receptors on the cells The protein loops that determine ... pandemic to anyone who has lived through one There are two very separate meanings for "severity" when discussing influenza One relates to the virulence of the virus in any given host; the other to ... cover Nature of the Outbreak to Date This virus constitutes a serious threat not based on the outbreak thus far, which has been, in historical terms, very limited in the total number of probable...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21