BACKGROUND The main goal of physical therapy treatment (PT) in the clinical stage following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is to prepare patients for discharge from the hospital as soon as possible after their operation. Although aggressive rehabilitation is believed to be important, evidence of effects of different exercise programmes following TKA is limited. This led to the question whether t...

OBJECTIVE To obtain the maximum benefit from hospice, a person should receive hospice services for at least 30 days. For many Americans, this goal is not being met. This report presents data on hospice care discharges for 2000. Selected trend data are also presented. METHODS Data are from the National Home and Hospice Care Survey. The data presented are numbers and percents by selected discha...

The average daily benefit to cost ratio of a building energy storage system is mainly constrained by the battery lifetime. This paper aims to minimize the average daily cost of a hybrid energy storage system (HESS) (comprised of a battery and supercapacitor) by optimizing the battery capacity. A novel optimization model is proposed with the objective to find the minimum average daily investment...

Background: Prevalence of orthostatic hypotension (OH) has been investigated in many studies, mainly on selected samples of subjects. We aimed to assess the prevalence of OH and its association with incidence of adverse events among older medical inpatients. Methods: OH was evaluated according to current guidelines at admission and at discharge among older medical inpatients admitted to a Geria...

Abstract. Non-parametric Bayesian networks (NPBNs) are graphical tools for statistical inference widely used reliability analysis and risk assessment present several advantages, such as the embedded uncertainty quantification limited computational time process. However, their implementation in hydrological studies is still scarce. Hence, to increase our understanding of applicability extend use...