... differences between drugs and between different doses of the same drug in terms of upper gastrointestinal bleeding Individual patient meta-analysis showed that low-dose ibuprofen was not different ... meta-analyses of randomised trials, because many of the data in those came from trials with higher than licensed doses of coxibs, and maximum daily doses of NSAIDs This does not reflect clinical ... frequencies, but for the very rare adverse events they were overestimated by at least 400-fold The way in which we perceive and process numbers seems to be very different from how we perceive...
... too facile As they note, their system does not offer DSS-type warnings about drug-drug interactions, allergies, or toxic doses; however, it does have pull down menus indicating dosing and route, ... prescribing errors overwhelmingly count errors that not affect patients We almost always count potential errors, not actual adverse drug events; and even then, we usually find the inconsequential errors ... injury.” Thus, we must consider that among CPOE systems’ many virtues is their ability to reduce errors that seldom reach patients (which neither negates their many valuable contributions nor precludes...
... zoo On the street Conclusion We see a lot of things outside our houses We see a lot of food and drinks near our houses We don’t see many trees near our houses We see dogs, cats and birds near our ... We see food and drinks … On the street At the party In our school We see many plants and trees In our school On the street In...
... Although comprehension takes place at several levels, mastery at any one level is not a prerequisite to comprehension at another level Furthermore, the reading skills for each level or strand cut across ... At this level, students can be tested on the following skills: o The ability to differentiate between facts and opinions o The ability to recognize persuasive statements o The ability to judge ... students at tertiary level EFL/ESL teachers also need to keep in mind that the three levels are not distinct Dividing comprehension into literal, referential and critical strands is only intended...
... financial well-being without actual dollar amounts 17 Cases missing on household income in each weighting class were counted and then dropped Cases remaining in each weighting class were weighted ... miss_pap_final_24oct03.doc Last revised 10/24/03 What should we about missing data? Page 11 of 60 coefficient for another variable in the LAMP data will not be zero If missingness is MAR, then the observed sample does ... income (and by implication, variables not in the data) as well as potentially other variables in the data Note that MNAR does not mean that missingness lacks a random component, only that its systematic...
... 2007) Annotation Proposal and Pilot Study As part of our challenge to the NLP community, we propose a distributed OntoNotes-style approach (Hovy et al., 2006) to this annotation effort: distributed, ... feasibility of annotating RTEoriented local entailment phenomena, we developed an inference model that could be followed by annotators, and conducted a pilot annotation study We based our initial ... arguments) As we followed this procedure for a given example, we marked which entailment phenomena were required for the inference We illustrate the process using the example in figure First, we would...
... past pandemics [5] butwe don’t yet know enough about what determines infectivity and virulence to predict the key correlates of transmissibility just from the viral RNA sequence What determines ... University Press; 2007 disease in humans infected directly from birds, but have not to date been transmitted between humans What determines whether new animal virus variants that can pass from ... conserved pocket in the HA stem region [8] Analogous mAbs have been found for HIV Whatwe don’t yet know, however, is how to make a vaccine that induces the human immune system to make these...
... between factors that may vary between individuals of the same species, between phylogenetically-related species (but not between individuals of the same species) or between ecosystems (but not ... butterflies butnot moths [71] Temperate herbaceous plants [15] Temperate grassland herbs [14, 25, 72] Temperate and Mediterranean grassland herbs [15, 66, 72] Temperate butterflies butnot moths ... wet habitats Absence of ground reserves Trees [5, 18] Temperate grassland herbs [25,72] but maybe not temperate forest understory plants [71] Forest plants [14, 106], temperate Carabids and butterflies...
... km away We averaged the four measurements of each plot During the four years of the experiment we did not notice mortality of any large trees in the canopy Soil nitrogen and moisture were measured ... plot These were subsequently pooled by plot We oven-dried subsamples of the bulked soils at 105 °C to determine soil water content For another subsample, M KCl extractions of NH4 and NO3 were made ... were considered experimental units We analyzed for the effect of site on seedling performance but found no significant interaction among sites for canopy openness or trenching effects (data not...
... infant, [BW] birthweight, [LBW] low birthweight, [NBW] normal birthweight, [VLBW] very low birthweight, [NBW] normal birthweight, [GA] gestational age, [GW] gestational weeks, [NS] not significant ... palatal width, but who did not distinguish between term and preterm children, included children up to three weeks of age, and did not consider the mode of presentation Correlations between palatal ... of 21% alveolar notches was found Those notches were significantly more common in blacks, with an odds ratio of 2.7 (a definition of the notches and their grades of severity was not given) [66]...
... infant, [BW] birthweight, [LBW] low birthweight, [NBW] normal birthweight, [VLBW] very low birthweight, [NBW] normal birthweight, [GA] gestational age, [GW] gestational weeks, [NS] not significant ... morphology in relation to birthweight Comparing three studies [1,23,24] with inclusion of children with increasing birthweights the neonates in the study with the lowest mean birthweight had the highest ... the highest birthweights had no palatal deformity (Table 3, see Additional file 3) Palatal morphology in relation to weight at the time of impression taking No correlation between weight at the...
... However, it is important to note that although there remains concern about ET tube resistance, and the literature is replete with lung model studies of increased work of breathing, there is not ... compensation could not overcome the pressure–time product associated with triggering and that pressure support is as effective as ATC at 100% The conclusions are valid There are, however, tremendous disadvantages ... tube resistance is necessary, not whether ATC is as good as or better than PSV The future of ATC, like many new techniques, may not be in overcoming ET tube resistance, but as a method of support...
... warranted Of note, this second study fails to answer whether albumin alone is efficacious, or indeed whether low-dose furosemide, necessitating saline resuscitation, is harmful They comment (as does ... competing interests 21 References Hebert PC, Wells G, Blajchman MA, Marshall J, Martin C, Pagliarello G, Tweeddale M, Schweitzer I, Yetisir E: A multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial of ... reported an observational study establishing a link between hypoproteinaemia and poor outcome in ALI [14] They then went on to conduct a randomized controlled trial of albumin and furosemide versus...
... purely musculoskeletal Wenban also described the frequency of visits, after a 12 weeks intensive care period, as times per week for weeks, time per week for weeks, and time per weeks for the reminder ... chiropractic textbooks were consulted, butnot exhaustively, in order to bring forth some background information on the topic The only inclusion criteria for this review were that the texts were research ... study participants were often unlikely to be representative of their target populations Definitions of maintenance care The definitions of maintenance care that we found were not based on scientific...
... premise Frequency is crucial, however laborious it may be What can we expect going forward? We can expect that the world will continue to use intensive insulin, but that the range defining tight ... [abstract] Crit Care Med 2008, 36:sA68 doi:10.1186/cc9236 Cite this article as: Nasraway SA Jr, Rattan R: Tight glycemic control: whatwe really know, and what should we expect? Critical Care 2010, 14:198 ... septic shock in adults: a randomized controlled trial JAMA 2010, 303:341-348 De la Rosa GDC, Donado JH, Restrepo AH, Quintero AM, González LG, Saldarriaga NE, Bedoya M, Toro JM, Velásquez JB,...
... February 2010 (document reference 2010/ 107-4) Returned questionnaires were excluded if respondents were not intended to participate (apprentices and students: 20 questionnaires), they were blank ... laerdalfoundation.org/studier_hypoteser.html] doi:10.1186/1757-7241-19-45 Cite this article as: Fattah et al.: The lateral trauma position: Whatwe know about it and how we use it? A cross-sectional survey of all Norwegian emergency ... “reasonably confident” and “confident,” and the latter comprised not entirely confident,” not confident,” or blank answers Results We identified 206 ground EMS supervisors (either at the station...
... Canada, and the United Kingdom (e.g see Fearnley and Beattie) Whatwe know about audit quality? Summing up, it turns out that we know more about audit quality than we might have originally suspected: ... lawsuits These audit reports were required prior to 1989, and he finds they were more predictive of actual litigation outcomes than were financial statements having footnote-only disclosures of loss ... promote their industry expertise and we observe empirically that industry market shares are not evenly distributed among the large accounting firms The linkage between industry market share and industry...