BACKGROUND Length of stay is an important indicator of quality of care in Emergency Departments (ED). This study explores the duration of patients' visits to the ED for which they are treated and released (T&R). METHODS Retrospective data analysis and multivariate regression analysis were conducted to investigate the duration of T&R ED visits. Duration for each visit was computed by taking th...

in order to evaluate the effect of water deficit and different fertilizer levels on yield and some agro-morphological characteristics of moldavian balm, a split plot experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications at the research farm of shahrekord university during 2013-2014 growing season. main factor was three levels of irrigation regimes including: 100...

From 1995 to 1998, more than 90 percent of mid-range IPOs were charged underwriter fees, or spreads, of exactly seven percent, even though evidence suggests that economies of scale in the size of the offering should allow for lower fees. Chen and Ritter (2000) offer collusion as a possible explanation based on empirical analysis and observation. Alternatively, we investigate whether the spreads...

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the aim of this study was to investigate the frequency, location and type of rpob gene mutations in mycobacterium tuberculosis (mtb) collected from patients in the southern endemic region of iran. drug susceptibility testing was determined by using the bactec system and the center for diseases control’s (cdc) standard conventional proportional method. in 29 rifampicin-resistant mtb (85%) isolat...

PURPOSE In this prospective multicenter clinical study, 1,179 3i standard threaded and self-tapping implants were followed for up to 6 years and monitored according to established success criteria. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 493 patients (240 men and 253 women) with a mean age of 45.1 years at implant surgery were enrolled at 6 research centers after being screened for exclusion criteri...