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... selection and packaging of various incentives. The aim of this qualita-tive study was to gather such data from rural and urbandoctors, as well as med ical leaders, on both the real and perceived challenges ... was explicit and transparent career advantages that would actuallydraw people north.“My colleague at Komfo Anokye gets the same sala ryas I take here. But t hey go to work at 8 and then, atabout ... sug-gests that strategies may require a mix of financial and non-financial incentives, specific reforms and incentivepackages require interrogation and evaluation at nationallevel [5].Ghana’s Ministry...
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... different stages of OA (mild, moderate and severe) andof patients after primary TKA, and after a revision of the TKA. All patients filled in the Dutch KOOS questionnaire, as well as the SF-36 and a Visual ... reliable and validated Dutch versions of disease-spe-cific questionnaires were available to evaluate the func-tional status of patients and quality of life after surgery.The Western Ontario and ... mild and moderate OA and for patientswith a primary TKA. The Dutch version of the KOOS had a lower construct validity for patients withsevere OA on a waiting list for TKA and patients after...
... are transformed to scores ranging from 0to 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 workingdays per year at an average annual salar y of $34,426 (or a compensation rate of $19.56/hour) [19]. Statisticalanalyses were performed using the SAS statistical pack-age (SAS ... Dean1*, Brian C Calimlim1, Patricia Sacco2, Daniel Aguilar1, Robert Maykut3, David Tinkelman4AbstractBackground: Results ofa national survey of asthmatic children that evaluated management...
... Au coated carbon nanotubenanoneedle. (a) Carbon nanotube nanoneedle before Aunanoparticle coating and (b) after Au nanoparticle coating (scalebar: 5 μm). (c) Magnified view of Au nanoparticle-coatednanoneedle ... chemical, biological, and medical applications. In particular, intracellular pH is aninterest factors to most biologists because changes inintracellular pH affect the ionization state of all weakacids ... PolymerNanowire Arrays - Fabrication and Chemical Sensing Applications.AdvMater 2009, 21:2040.26. Lange U, Roznyatovskaya NV, Mirsky VM: Conducting polymers in chemicalsensors and arrays. Anal...
... in detail in Lowe (1974) and Lowe and Klinka (1981).Mineral soil samples were also analyzed foroxalate Fe and Al and dithionite Fe, Al and Si.Oxalate Fe and Al were ... (cm) and Vand Care the numerical values of its Mun-sell value and chroma; and where Sl is the spodic index calculated for eachsample of spodic horizon and H, V and C are ... analyses of P using a Technicon Autoanalyzer. ExtractableSO4-S was determined by ammonium acetateextraction (Tabatabai, 1982) and turbidimetry.Extractable Ca, Mg and K were...
... interven-tion taking place in Calgary and Halifax. The phasedapproach has several advantages. For instance, it allows usto train the research assistants from the Calgary and Hali-fax areas in a central ... statusmeasures for clinical practice, score/interpret results,incorporate measures into clinical reasoning, and recog-nize and address personal and organizational barriers and facilitators of ... O'Brien MA, Oxman AD, Davis DA, Haynes RB, Freeman-tle N, Harvey EL: Audit and feedback versus alternative strat-egies: effects on professional practice and health careoutcomes. Cochrane...
... the study. Ethics approval wasobtained from the Local Research Ethics Committee.Radiographic measurementsPelvic radiographs were obtained, and radiographical var-iables (acetabular index and ... Acetabular dysplasia: the acetabular angle. J BoneJoint Surg 1961, 43-B:268-72.27. Iwase T, Hasegawa Y, Kawamoto K, Iwasada S, Yamada K, Iwata H:Twenty years' followup of intertrochanteric osteotomy ... well affect acetabularmorphology and capsular laxity, and provide a spectrum of morphology across the population with the major dys-morphism leading to clinical apparent disease.Genetic variation...
... Cozzolino P, Arnone R, Lorenzo E, Tartaglia G, Starace F, Magliano L, Maj M: Psychological consequences of the 1998 landslide in Sarno, Italy: A community study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2001, ... first assessment as a risk factor for later posttraumatic stress reactions. Additional analyses indicated that change in marital status was not related to level of posttraumatic stress reactions ... McFarlane AC: Family functioning and overprotection following a natural disaster: The longitudinal effects of post-traumatic morbidity. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1987,...
... from Health Canada's Special AccessProgram. Notwithstanding, the NAOMI team continuesto work to try and make access to heroin and/ or hydro-morphone available to NAOMI participants and hope-fully ... attempts andof not being on MMT at thetime of recruitment. The research assistants found thatmany potential candidates had not reached a dose of 60mg of methadone and/ or had not remained on metha-done ... HIV/AIDS and Hep-atitis, increased hospital and emergency service utilizationfor treatment of HIV-related diseases, septicaemia and endocarditis, as well as increased ambulance responsesand...
... cited.Research articleImmediate determination of ACPA and rheumatoid factor - a novel point of care test for detection of anti-MCV antibodies and rheumatoid factor usinga lateral-flow immunoassayFranziska ... serum sample with a reactivity of approximately 100 U/ml in both standardized anti-MCV and RF-ELISA (Orgentec, Mainz, Germany).The ratio of applied antigens and serum anti-MCVantibodies and/ or ... consent.Lateral-flow immunochromatographic deviceLateral-flow immunochromatographic assay (LFIA) wasmanufactured as double antigen direct sandwich assay.Devices (DCN, Carlsbad, CA, USA) for...
... P: Pharmacologic issues in the critically ill.Clin Chest Med 2003, 24:671-688.15. Ariza-Andraca CR, Altamirano-Bustamante E, Frati-Munari AC,Altamirano-Bustamante P, Graef-Sanchez A: Delayed ... the manuscript. TE par-ticipated in designof the studyand helped to draft themanuscript. PB participated in designof the studyand helpedto draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved ... finalmanuscript.AcknowledgementsThe authors thank all patients who have participated in this studyand the intensivists and nurses at the ICUs and the clinical chemical and phar-maceutical...