... professional performance and chronic care management that were sustained for at least 12 months This suggests that gains made in a QIC can be maintained for at least a year without additional ... range of health, personal, and social services and initiatives to improve the organization, management, and integration or coordination ofprimary generalist care and secondary specialist care ... outpatient hospital clinics and general practices Professional performance Table compares the scores of the participating and control provider teams for professional performance at baseline and...
... farmers to evacuate and in some cases abandon farms, the agronomic and social impacts of the evacuation, the rationale and execution of livestock evacuation, and the factors that encouraged farmers ... volcanic gases, landslides and lava flows (Table 1) However, volcanic ashfall may also impact human and animal health, water supplies, critical infrastructure, buildings, and agricultural activities ... (2007) The Health Hazards of Volcanic Ash - A guide for the public International Volcanic Health Hazard Network pamphlet 16 Janda RJ, Daag AS, de los Reyes PJ, Newhall C (1996) Assessment and response...
... farmers to evacuate and in some cases abandon farms, the agronomic and social impacts of the evacuation, the rationale and execution of livestock evacuation, and the factors that encouraged farmers ... volcanic gases, landslides and lava flows (Table 1) However, volcanic ashfall may also impact human and animal health, water supplies, critical infrastructure, buildings, and agricultural activities ... (2007) The Health Hazards of Volcanic Ash - A guide for the public International Volcanic Health Hazard Network pamphlet 16 Janda RJ, Daag AS, de los Reyes PJ, Newhall C (1996) Assessment and response...
... Statistical analyses Statistical analysis of changes in the consequent series of samples obtained the same patient was analysed using the paired t-test For the analysis of the long- term changes the Mann-Whitney ... Filipowicz-Sosnowska A, Schechtman J, Szczepanski L, Kavanaugh A, Racewicz AJ, van Vollenhoven RF, Li NF, Agarwal S, Hessey EW, Shaw TM: The efficacy and safety of rituximab in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis ... t-test (short- term changes) and Mann-Whitney t-test (long- term changes) formed using the GraphPad software Prism (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA, USA) IgD+ as well as IgM+ (Figure 3) In contrast,...
... firm’s shares as early as 45 days before the actual acquisition announcement In Canada, Amoako-Adu and Yagil (1986), Calvet and Lefoll (1987), and Masse et al (1988) all report significantly positive ... sample period At least two years of financial information were available for these 437 companies The financial data in Stock Guide were available for both active and inactive companies Our sample ... We excluded all the cases defined as an acquisition of assets, a buyback, a recapitalisation or an exchange offer This results in a sample of 4450 Canadian transactions Finally, we wanted to focus...
... survivors and nonsurvivors and between BNP and NT-proBNP in survivors was assessed with analysis of variance (ANOVA) for repeated measures Kaplan-Meier survival analysis Page of 15 was performed to assess ... admission, and non -invasive ventilation, must be taken into account at an early stage of hospitalization A reliable risk stratification parameter that is available earlier could help to mitigate the ... Basel, Switzerland Authors’ contributions MN made substantial contributions to the conception and design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting of...
... SV40T Ag and the 3¢ portion of the tsA58T Ag cDNA carrying the A4 38V mutation were PCR-amplified from COS-7 cDNAs using the following primers: LTA-1F, 5¢-CTC GAGATGGATAAAGTTTTAAACAGAG-3¢ and LTA1R, ... 5¢-TGAAGGCAAATCTCTGGAC-3¢ for the former, and LTA–M2F, 5¢-CAGCTGTTTTGCTTGAATTATG-3¢ and LTA–2R, 5¢-GAATTCATTATGTTTCAGGTTCA GGGG-3¢ for the latter The PCR products were cloned into the EcoRV site of ... Dong QG, Bernasconi S, Lostaglio S, De Calmanovici RW, Martin-Padura I, Breviario F, Garlanda C, Ramponi S, Mantovani A & Vecchi A (1997) A general strategy for isolation of endothelial cells from...
... environmental and hormonal stimuli [40], a galactosyltransferase (At3g62720), a galacturonosyltransferase (At3g02350), a polygalacturonase family member (At1g19170), a putative cinnamoylCoA reductase (At4g30470), ... data and drafted the manuscript; YS contributed to the data analysis and the preparation of the manuscript; EB contributed to the experimental design, data analysis and the final preparation of ... Probe Arrays Affymetrix: GeneChip® Expression Analysis Data Analysis Fundamentals [http://www.affymetrix.com/support/downloads/ manuals/data_analysis_fundamentals_manual.pdf] Affymetrix: Statistical...
... certainly raises the bar for other long- term outcomes studies of critically ill patients A few limitations of this study deserve consideration Few details regarding patient management both before ... Munoz-Sanchez A, Arango M, Hartzenberg B, Khamis H, Yutthakasemsunt S, Komolafe E, Olldashi F, Yadav Y, Murillo-Cabezas F, Shakur H, Edwards P: Effect of intravenous corticosteroids on death within ... NK, Wasserberg J, Yates D, Yutthakasemsunt S: Final resultsof MRC CRASH, a randomised placebo-controlled trial of intravenous corticosteroid in adults with head injuryoutcomes at months Lancet...
... use ofa standardised technique by the same surgeon After induction ofa general anaesthesia, the patient was placed in a beach chair position anda thorough examination under anaesthesia was ... EWWG and SM were involved in all of the data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation as well as drafting of the final manuscript TAHC was involved in editing the final manuscript and ... portal was made just over the superior border of the subscapularis tendon A small cannula was inserted into the anterosuperior portal, anda large-diameter threaded cannula was placed in the anterior...
... use ofa standardised technique by the same surgeon After induction ofa general anaesthesia, the patient was placed in a beach chair position anda thorough examination under anaesthesia was ... EWWG and SM were involved in all of the data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation as well as drafting of the final manuscript TAHC was involved in editing the final manuscript and ... portal was made just over the superior border of the subscapularis tendon A small cannula was inserted into the anterosuperior portal, anda large-diameter threaded cannula was placed in the anterior...
... evaluated overall survival after a diagnosis was made of colorectal cancer and significant prognostic markers of survival identified by first univariate and then multifactorial analysis Disease ... statistical analysis and contributed to several drafts of the paper RID Helped in data collection and tabulation and provision of data for survival analysis RW - Collection of data, wrote the manuscript ... Proportional Hazard Model revealed that AJCC stage IV, a resection margin which was positive for tumour (i.e.R1) and the use of neo-adjuvant chemoradiation for rectal cancer was significantly associated...
... populations and different availability of treatment alternatives Another manner of accessing long- term data is through national registry databases, which are primarily maintained to evaluate effectiveness ... and HAQ scores prior to infliximab withdrawal; and actual therapy at year All patients had long- standing, active, refractory RA After an induction regimen of mg/kg at weeks 0, 2, and 6, all patients ... effectiveness and safety issues [27,28] Evaluation of the efficacy of long- term therapy shows that, after years of infliximab therapy, the majority of patients had a low level of disease activity and that...
... evaluation of the patients' records, collection of the data, letters to the patients and the referring doctors, and the entry of the data to the databank system CR critically evaluated and approved ... ESWT and surgery because ofa high rate of long- lasting pain relief and improvement of mobility with virtually no side effects A recent investigation of the efficacy of radiother- Page of (page ... et al [43] in a randomized trial They found no increased effect on pain and active mobility of laser application combined with a special exercise program compared to placebo laser treatment and...
... (MUGA) revealed an ejection fraction of 14% and enlarged cardiac silhouette on chest X-ray, and she was clinically diagnosed as having anthracycline-induced cardiomyopathy Medical therapy was ... capecitabine and gemcitabine therapy and had stable disease as assessed by CT scans However, in early 2003 she was found to have declining renal function and was forced to stop chemotherapy She was ... pulmonary artery [7] A second case describes a patient who died of diffuse malignant mesothelioma approximately nine years after the diagnosis of WDPMP, suggesting a malignant transformation at...
... aim of validating the questionnaire (Lendal et al 1998) Data analysis Initially bivariate analyses were performed, and variables having p-values below 0.15 were included in the multivariate analysis ... M Larsen et al be an indication that AR has developed Some parasites survive treatment, what facilitates selection of AR parasites (Prichard 1994) This makes it necessary to investigate the association ... of an anthelmintic treatment are presented in Table and Collinearity between the variable "the veterinarian gives advice regarding the choice of anthelmintics" and the variable "veterinarian...
... delight of the bureaucrats, politicians, international bankers, multinational corporations, and some labor leaders The age of the managed fiat currency was born The M anaged Fiat Currency Standard As ... a seamless web They cannot be separated, and they stand or fall together Ron Paul understands that all three parts of this system of liberty have been under grave attack for decades, and that ... society and nation, but to adjust and discharge the balance of exchanges between different nations It must be something which has a value abroad, as well as at home, and by which foreign as well as...
... improve imaging The absence of catalysts in addition to the analysis of the nano-wire length-anddiameter data has validated anew growth mechanism, which we have called SVS growth as proposed earlier ... spheres A, B and C and the enlargement of space around these spheres as time of annealing increases The variation of sphere diameter with time for sphere B and C are plotted in (b) Exponential decay ... B.W Mwakikunga, A Forbes, E Sideras-Haddad, R.M Erasmus, G Katumba, B Masina, Int J Laser Nanoparticles (2008) (in press) 17 B.W Mwakikunga, E Sideras-Haddad, A Forbes, C Arendse, Phys Status...
... endobronchial patologies due to atelectasis Particularly multislice CT is a valuable tool for evaluating subdiaphragmatic area, and diaphragm rupture and/ or herniation associated with postraumatic diaphragm ... plication for unilateral diaphragm paralysis reexpands the atelectatic lung, improves respiratory and digestive symptoms, and quality of life in long- term period Symptomatic unilateral diaphragmatic ... long- term follow-up study, we evaluated an average of 5.4 (4-7) years outcome of diaphragmatic plication in adults with symptomatic unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis We found that diaphragmatic...