PRIME suspects in RA flares

Drug-Induced Acute Myocardial Infarction: Identifying ‘Prime Suspects’ from Electronic Healthcare Records-Based Surveillance System

BACKGROUND Drug-related adverse events remain an important cause of morbidity and mortality and impose huge burden on healthcare costs. Routinely collected electronic healthcare data give a good snapshot of how drugs are being used in 'real-world' settings. OBJECTIVE To describe a strategy that identifies potentially drug-induced acute myocardial infarction (AMI) from a large international he...

Prime Suspects: The Influence of Local Television News on the Viewing Public

Local television news is the public's primary source of public affairs information. News stories about crime dominate local news programming because they meet the demand for 'action news." The prevalence of this type of reporting has led to a crime narrative or "script" that includes two core elements: crime is violent and perpetrators of crime are non-white males. We show that this script has ...

trophoblast giant cells, the prime suspects of deficient placentation associated with pregnancy complications

Identifying flares in rheumatoid arthritis: reliability and construct validation of the OMERACT RA Flare Core Domain Set

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the reliability of concurrent flare identification using 3 methods (patient, rheumatologist and Disease Activity Score (DAS)28 criteria), and construct validity of candidate items representing the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials (OMERACT) RA Flare Core Domain Set. METHODS Candidate flare questions and legacy measures were administered at consecutive visi...

Spotting Overgeneration Suspects

We present a method for quickly spotting overgeneration suspects (i.e., likely cause of overgeneration) in hand-coded grammars. The method is applied to a medium size Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) for French and is shown to help reduce the number of outputs by 70% almost all of it being overgeneration.