International Surgery ICS Member Benefits

The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart

1 Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach CA, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Cambridge Quaternary, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK. E-mail: [email protected] 4 State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology & Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology & Pa...

Joint Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society (ICS) and International Urogynecological Association (IUGA)

4th International Congress of Minimally Invasive Surgery-IRAN

4th International Congress of Minimally Invasive Surgery-IRAN

THE BENEFITS OF OUTPATIENT SURGERY OVER SURGERY IN THE HOSPITAL: REPORT OF 4177 UROLOGIC OUTPATIENT OPERA TIONS

From 1983 until 1987, 4177 outpatient urologic procedures were performed at Shahid Labbafi Nejad Medical Center. 34% of the cases were open surgical, while 66% were endourologic procedures. There was no surgical complication related to the outpatient aspect of the procedure. Rate of infection in open surgical cases was almost zero. The number of procedures was increased each succeeding yea...

Private Benefits of Control: An International Comparison

We construct a measure of the private benefits of control in 39 countries based on 393 control transactions between 1990 and 2000. We find that the value of control ranges between –4% and +65%, with an average of 14 percent. As predicted by theory, in countries where private benefits of control are larger capital markets are less developed, ownership is more concentrated, and privatizations are...