... Critical Care October 2005 Vol No Koppel measuring possible/potential errors If we examine patients’ charts, we may see both prevented and administered errors (There are undoubtedly other, ... systems affect medication errors and we gain useful insights into how we might evaluate all emerging healthcare technologies Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests ... [2] write with intentional irony, “…it seems easiest to prevent those [errors] that rarely cause injury.” Thus, we must consider that among CPOE systems’ many virtues is their ability to reduce...
... reduces 14 Other names for weighted casewise deletion are casewise re-weighting and nonresponse weighting miss_pap_final_24oct03.doc Last revised 10/24/03 What should weabout missing data? Page ... 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 ... income simulations are puzzling, because the techniques we expected to provide the best results performed relatively poorly We were concerned that these results were just a fluke, or were in part a...
... pandemics [5] but we don’t yet know enough aboutwhat determines infectivity and virulence to predict the key correlates of transmissibility just from the viral RNA sequence What determines the ... disrupted, or from which the HA and NA subunits are purified High titer stocks are required as starting material for such vaccines Although efforts are Journal of Biology 2009, 8:46 Volume 8, Article ... 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...
... studies of NSAIDs there were large differences between drugs [6] Similarly, differences between individual coxibs are apparent for gastrointestinal bleeding [7], and between individual coxibs ... problematic are those adverse events that are serious, irreversible and unpredictable They will be rare because no drug could be marketed if these adverse events were also common It is these rare but ... Graduate students and healthcare professionals in Singapore were asked to match frequency with one of six phrases, from very common to very rare, when a hypothetical situation about adverse events of...
... point that weaning may be considered Of course, there are numerous other studies that suggest that ET tube resistance may represent a significant impediment to spontaneous breathing However, it ... triggering and that pressure support is as effective as ATC at 100% The conclusions are valid There are, however, tremendous disadvantages to a lung model study in comparing these techniques ... synchrony as compared with PSV Additional clinical studies are required to complement the excellent laboratory work by the group from Osaka reported in this issue Competing interests None declared References...
... times and the five values are averaged The two methods were compared in 15 patients and the expiratory leak was consistently lower than the total leak As the ratio between expiratory and total ... study was not to compare the performance of both tests but rather to evaluate the factors influencing the leak As these patients were deeply sedated and even muscle relaxants were used, extubation ... part, some of the differences between studies Series in post-operative patients showed that the capacity of the cuff-leak test to predict extubation failure was much lower than in populations of critically...
... data were extracted for each separate intervention Data abstraction was performed by one reviewer (KD) with checking of key variables by a second reviewer (LS) The following types of variables were ... http://www.resource-allocation.com/content/6/1/9 worse) were found for interventions targeted at children/ youth compared to adults, for medical interventions compared with lifestyle interventions, vaccinations compared to all other ... inpatient care had the lowest median cost-effectiveness ratios That said, the extent of variation in the data is such that there were examples of highly cost-effective and cost-ineffective care within...
... ground EMS personnel, we received answers to only 46% of the distributed questionnaires We believe there most likely is a bias, because those who answered the questionnaire are more likely to be ... 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 medical services Scandinavian Journal of ... questionnaire] or obviously inconsistent answers [one questionnaire]) All of the results are based on valid answers to specific questions (some questions were left blank by some respondents) Confidence...
... 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: † † † † † ... 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 expertise ... audit failures: the higher the failure rate, the lower the quality of auditing Whatwe know about audit failure rates? Outright audit failures are difficult to determine with certainty but can be...
... Major Aspects of Nanotechnology What is it? •How did it come about? Whatare the social implications? What does this mean for the future? Definitions • Nano means ... manipulated by two laser beams Major Aspects of Nanotechnology What is it? •How did it come about? Whatare the social implications? What does this mean for the future? Positive Effects on Society ... Negative Effects on Society Major Aspects of Nanotechnology What is it? •How did it come about? Whatare the social implications? What does this mean for the future? The Future with Nanotechnology...
... INDUSTRY SURVEY What future animators say aboutwhat they are looking for in a school, and what professional animators say are the most important things to look for Quotes throughout are from professional ... and students who were interested in pursuing an education in animation They were asked to share with us the criteria they used in choosing a school, and what things they thought were most important ... print, web, or other format without express written permission V WHAT PROFESSIONAL ANIMATORS SAY IS IMPORTANT ABOUT GETTING A GOOD ANIMATION EDUCATION We asked professional animators about the...
... issue and deciding what to about it Yet we largely ignore it and are curiously complacent about life as we know it getting transformed Whatwe should be worried about is that we re not worried ... think our choice is simple: We can wait for them to annihilate whatwe have, which is becoming more likely every day, or we can begin thinking about how to share whatwe have with them In the meantime, ... the blue But since by definition we have no idea what the unknown unknowns are, we can’t constructively worry about them What, then, about the known unknowns? Are certain risk factors numbering...
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... individuals, may be linked to an increased likelihood of replication within the lower respiratory tract Whatwe know about the transmissibility of influenza A (H1N1) 2009? Modeling based on known ... cases All three studies also showed that influenza A (H1N1) 2009 caused more tissue damage in the lower respiratory tract than typical seasonal influenza strains So are you saying the human disease ... compare glycan binding of HAs from influenza A (H1N1) 2009 and 1918 Spanish influenza [12], both showed the same binding specificity and pattern, but the influenza A (H1N1) 2009 HA bound with lower...
... pSS [15] Patients received mg/kg infliximab at weeks 0, 2, and 6, and were followed for 22 weeks This trial did not show any effect of infliximab compared with placebo on global and both subjective ... whom showed an increased salivary flow rate following treatment, parotid biopsies were performed before and 12 weeks after treatment [37] Histopathological analysis of the biopsies showed a strong ... infliximab (three infusions of mg/kg at 0, 2, and weeks) showed improvement in subjective and objective assessments of glandular function after 12 weeks [12] With the exception of a slight decrease...
... accelerate, as new technologies are being developed that allow even more rapid generation of genomic data, which in turn will open more avenues of research We are, however, currently only taking ... carcasses have sunk to the sea floor These environments are rich in lipid, and DNA encoding metabolic processes could be identified in samples that were geographically distinct but had similar nutrient ... used as ‘environmental genomic tags’ (or EGTs, by analogy with ESTs, expressed sequence tags) that are representative of a particular environment http://genomebiology.com/2005/6/9/341 plasmids, raises...
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