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doctors, as well as med ical leaders, on both the real and
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a Visual ... reliable and validated Dutch versions of disease-spe-
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with a primary TKA. The Dutch version of the KOOS had a lower construct validity for patients with
severe OA on a waiting list for TKA and patients after...
... are transformed to scores ranging from 0
to 100 and are analyzed as continuous variables. Sum-
mary measures are standardized with a mean of 50 and
standard deviation of 10 to reflect general US ... eight-hour paid working
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bar: 5 μm). (c) Magnified view of Au nanoparticle-coated
nanoneedle ... chemical, biological, and
medical applications. In particular, intracellular pH is an
interest factors to most biologists because changes in
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morphology and capsular laxity, and provide a spectrum
of morphology across the population with the major dys-
morphism leading to clinical apparent disease.
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to work to try and make access to heroin and/ or hydro-
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time of recruitment. The research assistants found that
many potential candidates had not reached a dose of 60
mg of methadone and/ or had not remained on metha-
done ... HIV/AIDS and Hep-
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for treatment of HIV-related diseases, septicaemia and
endocarditis, as well as increased ambulance responses
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anti-MCV antibodies and rheumatoid factor usinga
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and RF-ELISA (Orgentec, Mainz, Germany).
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manuscript. PB participated in designof the studyand helped
to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved ... final
manuscript.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank all patients who have participated in this studyand the
intensivists and nurses at the ICUs and the clinical chemical and phar-
maceutical...