OBJECTIVE To understand how the source of information affects different adverse event (AE) surveillance methods. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of inpatient adverse drug events (ADEs) and hospital-associated infections (HAIs) detected by either a computerized surveillance system (CSS) or manual chart review (MCR). MEASUREMENT Descriptive analysis of events detected using the two methods by t...

Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is characterized by the presence of asthma, eosinophilia, and small-vessel vasculitis with granuloma. It is a distinct entity, as determined from all classifications of systemic vasculitis. The poor prognostic factors in CSS are renal insufficiency, cardiomyopathy, severe gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and central nervous systems (CNS) involvement. The initial managem...

Chemosensory systems (CSS) are complex regulatory pathways capable of perceiving external signals and translating them into different cellular behaviors such as motility and development. In the δ-proteobacterium Myxococcus xanthus, chemosensing allows groups of cells to orient themselves and aggregate into specialized multicellular biofilms termed fruiting bodies. M. xanthus contains eight pred...

1. Scheby-Buch.-Arch. f. Ophthal., p. 265, 1871. 2. Moll.-Centralbl. f. prakt Augenheilk, p. 2, 1896. 3. Weber.-Virchow's Arch., Vol. XXV, p. 114b, and Vol. XXVIII, p. 489, 1863. % 4. Schmidt-Rimpler.-Klin. Wochenschr., p. 92, 1884. Berlin. 5. Aubertin.-Rev. Gen. d'Ophtal., p. 280, 1933. 6. Lohmann.-Beticht iuber d. Vers. d. Ophthal. Gesellsch., p. 264, 1908. Heidelberg. 7. Stephenson.The Ophth...

Due to its anti-jamming capability, chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technique has attracted much attention in the area of wireless communications. However, there has been little rigorous analysis for the anti-jamming performance of CSS-based communication systems. In this paper, we present analytic results on the anti-jamming performance of a CSS-based system: BER expressions are derived for a CSS-...

Internet help seeking behaviors are increasingly common. Despite the positives associated with technology, cyberchondria, or the process of increased anxiety in response to internet medical information seeking, is on the rise. The Cyberchondria Severity Scale (CSS) was recently developed to provide a valid measure of cyberchondria across multiple dimensions. The current study sought to extend p...

Charcoal-stripped serum (CSS) is a well-accepted method to model effects of sex hormones in cell cultures. We have recently shown that human endothelial cells (ECs) fail to growth and to undergo in vitro angiogenesis when cultured in CSS. However, the mechanism(s) underlying the CSS-induced impairment of in vitro EC properties are still unknown. In addition, whether there is any sexual dimorphi...