Methods Data sources used were the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS, n=9,417), the linked file of the 2007 NHIS to the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) (n=2,411) and the 2009/10 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN; n=40,243). Multivariate analyses were used to calculate adjusted odds ratios (AOR), controlling for children’s chronic conditi...

Modern File Systems provide scalable performance for large file data management. However, in case of metadata management the usual approach is to have single or few points of metadata service (MDS). In the current world, file systems are challenged by unique needs such as managing exponentially growing files, using filesystem as a key-value store, checkpointing that are highly metadata intensiv...

Dr. Gregory R. Mundy Texas, San Antonio, but they also decrease the number of tumor cells that are in bone, and "we guess they do that by changing the bone environment and making the bone a less hospitable place for the cancer cells to grow." The majority of breast cancer patients in whom cancer has spread beyond its primary origin experience metastases to bone. For these patients, a loss in bo...

improper drug prescription by physicians due to wrong diagnosis, wrong drug choise or other causes will waste national funds. the annual drug costs in iran is 900 billions rials. with approvement of prescription, it can be reduced to 500 billions rials. effective factors in costs reduction are: 1) increasing medical knowledge and persistent education of physicians. 2) spending more time for eac...

Flexible Allocation and Space Management in Storage Systems. (May 2007) Sukwoo Kang, B.S., Seoul National University; M.S., Seoul National University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. A. L. Narasimha Reddy In this dissertation, we examine some of the challenges faced by the emerging networked storage systems. We focus on two main issues. Current file systems allocate storage statically at the ti...

We present a methodology for the representation of the medical knowledge in the drug SPCs. It includes four steps, the two first of which are automated. All instances of a particular SPC text are gathered into a single file. Lexical analysis of the content of this file is performed and a lexicon with the occurrence of words and groups of words is built. Semantic analysis is carried out consider...

     The effectiveness of any drug supply systems in providing a trustworthy supply of essential drugs is a critical issue. To evaluate this effectiveness, it is necessary to watch over the status of the essential medicines in any country impartially and continuously. Some countries and also the World Health Organization (WHO) have codified a list of minimum medicines needed for a basic health ...

OBJECTIVES This methods report provides an overview of the redesigned National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS) conducted in 2007. NHHCS is a national probability sample survey that collects data on U.S. home health and hospice care agencies, their staffs and services, and the people they serve. The redesigned survey included computerized data collection, greater survey content, increased s...