Disinformation in International Relations: How Important Is It?

Platelet Refractoriness and how it is formed

Abstract Background and Objectives Transfusion of platelet has become one of the main treatments for thrombocytopenic patients to reduce the severity and frequency of bleeding consequences. Failure to attain the desired level of platelets in a patient following platelet transfusion is defined as platelet refractoriness. The purpose of present paper is to review and study the mechanisms involve...

Patient Safety Behavior in Physicians: How is it Predicted?

Background: Patient safety is a serious global public health issue. Estimates show that every day many patients are harmed while receiving hospital care. Health care staff plays a key role in providing quality and safe patient care, especially physicians who are main members of the medical team and a critical element in patient safety efforts. Objective: ...

How Important is the New Goods Margin in International Trade?

____________________________________________________________ We propose a methodology for studying changes in bilateral trade due to countries exporting goods that they did not export previously, or exported only in small quantities. Applying this methodology to countries pairs that undergo trade liberalization and to pairs where one of the countries undergoes significant structural transformat...

Inter-ethnic differences--how important is it in cancer treatment?

It is now well recognised that there are inter-ethnic differences accounting for variations in both pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of drugs, resulting in differences in drug responses. Treating physicians should be aware of pharmacogenetic differences that may exist between the races while extrapolating data generated from other populations to their own patients in order to ens...

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