... collaboration with the Swedish Intensive Care Nephrology Group, we performed a study of 2,202 patients with acute renal failure [14] These patients were treated with either CRRT or IRRT in 32 Swedish intensive ... interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests We addressed the same issue as the Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy investigators [1]; namely whether treatment modality used ... longterm outcome The studies mentioned above are welcome additions to critical care epidemiology in general, and to the field of acute kidney injury in particular Competing interests The authors...
... arms they were excluded from the study If the items in the questionnaire were present in only one arm, the volunteer was allowed to participate, but could only use the unaffected arm for the study ... significantly inferior to all of the other maneuvers In theory, lowering the arm below the level of the heart for 30 s should have resulted in venous pooling Therefore, it was expected that the ... of the subjects served as their own controls Volunteers were present in the same climate-controlled environment throughout their exposure to the different maneuvers As previously mentioned, the...
... Research & Therapy October 2005 Vol No Meyer and Pap at the same time they strengthen the concept of p38 and ERK as important MAPKs in the inflamed synovium In line with previous data, the results ... seems that there is only a narrow window of time in which anti-TNF-α treatment can entirely prevent the onset of arthritis and the activation of diseaserelevant MAPKs Consequently, the results ... disease Recent data on the involvement of MAPKs provide a basis for the development of novel therapeutic strategies for human RA Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing...
... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Kamen (odds ratio 0.991, 95% confidence interval 0.984 to 0.999) were the strongest predictors of protection against a major infection The significance persisted ... and The anti-malarials are immunomodulatory without being immunosuppressive in that they downregulate the processing of low affinity antigens (for example, self peptides) while preserving the ... with SLE without contraindications Competing interests The author declares that they have no competing interests References Anti-malarials have a unique mechanism of action in that they interfere...
... the intervention Because rates of VAP were much lower than anticipated, the study was underpowered Two-thirds of the subjects were considered infected at the time of ICU admission (primarily bronchitis ... to emphasize the potential role of poor dental hygiene in the pathogenesis of VAP Poor dental hygiene was apparent in 90% of the patients at the time of enrollment into the study Of the 50% of ... access to the oropharynx without the need for removing them each time oral hygiene care is administered Additional prospective studies are needed to identify oral hygiene strategies that are the most...
... Despite the initial success of integrating the mouse genome assembly into the process of QTL mapping, it is certainly not the final answer for identifying QTGs, and many other tools and concepts were ... analysis into their respective studies of alcohol preference and obesity phenotypes Kent Hunter (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA) showed how informative eQTLs can be even without an understanding ... Tennessee, Memphis, USA) presented his web-based tool, WebQTL [http://webqtl.org] and the QTL Reaper software package, for studying the associations between expression differences in genes and...
... with other lesbians, 18 they did not consider themselves part of the “community”, and most insisted that there were other lesbians who were much better-connected than they were I suggest that the ... lesbian, they either fall into andro, femme or butch Butch, they look really male, they wear really male clothes, they take the effort to hide away all feminine aspects from themselves The androgynous, ... East/Southeast Asia In East/SoutheastAsia, butch and femme labels are much more widely used than in the West, though arguably without the political awareness or reflexivity of the contemporary Western...
... [27,28] The superior explanatory power of our transformations may be attributable to a better correspondence between the coverage of the SF-36 and the AQoL than between the SF-36 and other preference-based ... commonly used in stroke trials were available for analysis in the present study: the SF-36v1, the National Institutes of Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and the Barthel Index The SF-36v1 [16,17] is a generic ... first-order terms In the case of item-based algorithms, we retained first-order terms in the item-based model solely on the basis of their contribution to the regression; as evaluated by the probability...
... them in a place where wecan look at them and learn from them We tell our stories so wecan stop being our stories and become persons who have these stories We tell these stories so that wecan ... other down People have issues with other people, but the way we all handle it is that we talk about it with other people We don’t go to the person we have the issue with The person who said the ... 32 HOW THE WAY WE TALK CAN CHANGE THE WAY WEWORKThe language of complaint essentially tells us, and others, what it is wecan t stand The language of commitment tells us (and possibly others)...
... to consumption, the higher the interest rate they will require in fall, as the cost of borrowing increases, since fewer order to induce them to save, and the further to the left the investment ... “If, other things remaining the same, the leading banks of the world were to lower their real rate of interest, say per cent below its ordinary level, and keep it so for some years, then the prices ... mid-point of the target band, the output gap back to This suggests that another way of thinking about the NRR is zero, and the exchange rate back to equilibrium, assuming to ask whether the real...
... in the primary market, regardless of whether the central bank is also empowered to extend advances.6 Legislation may or may not include either the financial conditions of the loans as well as the ... financing Second, we ascertain who decides about the interest rates charged on these loans Third, we examine what limits are imposed on the amount of this financing And fourth, we find outthe maximum ... Fischer and others, 2002) 14 In both groups of experiments the outcome was the same When we increased the lag for average GDP growth and when we extended the period of analysis backwards, the basic...
... false route during placement of the tracheal cannula It remains unclear whether this was related to the level of procedural experience in the individuals performing the procedures or due to other ... dissection of the pretracheal tissue), but it is unclear whether they controlled for the resulting effects in their data analysis and presentation 320 Thus, Fikkers and coworkers’ recent work exemplifies ... and coworkers, like other authors in the past, did not report findings in the patients who received surgical tracheostomy or were left intubated during the period while study patients were assigned...
... No Webb and Coutts asymptomatic Out of the patients, had significant troponin I elevation, and this accounted for 50% of all troponin-positive results More recently, Lim et al [1] reported on the ... and the difficulty in early diagnosis of MI Thework of Lim and colleagues [10] provides further clarification as to which patients could be targeted; further studies are required to ascertain the ... The authors declare that they have no competing interests References The current paper by Lim and colleagues [10] continues a series of publications from the McMaster group analysing MI and the...
... characteristic of the patient One would want to know how reproducible these criteria were when measured by different observers, and whether they showed a graded correlation with mortality risk; the simple ... abnormality associated with increasing risk of adverse outcome These shortcomings notwithstanding, however, the authors are to be complimented on their continuing efforts to improve our ability to ... [13]; clearly, this is a problem that we need to understand better Not readily reversed by resuscitation Competing interests Objective The authors declare that they have no competing interests Measure...
... (a) staff, (b) the ways that they interact with each other, and (c) the non-human elements of systems (such as hospital design, protocols, and working practices) Thus, the study of the function ... substantial amount of related work has been undertaken in the context of anaesthesia and anaesthesia training, and much of this has been around crisis management (reviewed in [19]) There is an important ... decisions in the face of considerable uncertainty, and creating stories are all skills of individual clinicians The team-related issues that the study uncovered reflect the teamwork component of the system...
... them All of them After all, we re the landlord for every person in the province We ll just post a notice on the bridge to the island that tells them they have to leave by the end of the month Now, ... logic in the opposite direction: if we weren’t spending all this money on the war, we could afford to give our veterans the care they deserve First, a quick look at the disgraceful state of the VA ... CARD DEBT Pay Down the Plastic 46 24 PAY FOR THE BUSH TAX CUTS Even the Worst Cuts Can Be Healed, Can t They? 48 CONTENTS v 25 ANOTHER LOOK AT THE TAX CUTS How About a Tax Cut for the Rest of Us?...
... for the free performances.9 The theater tried to prevent the paid line standers from plying their trade, claiming “it’s not in the spirit of Shakespeare in the Park.” The mission of the Public Theater, ... the character and composition of the crowd The performance consists not only in the songs but also in the relationship between the performer and his audience, and the spirit in which they gather ... behavior can be explained by assuming that people decide what to by weighing the costs and benefits of the options before them, and choosing the one they believe will give them the greatest welfare,...
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