Background: Prediction scores could help to timely identify patients at risk. More intense care monitoring outside the pediatric intensive unit (PICU) improve outcomes. These concepts of critical without borders be implemented shortly with local resources and patient safety. Predict more, do less in PICUs, more ward. The aim this work was evaluate impact prediction for identification postoperat...

Abstract Analysis of non-probability survey samples requires auxiliary information at the population level. Such may also be obtained from an existing probability sample same finite population. Mass imputation has been used in practice for combining and making inferences on parameters interest using collected only study variables. Under assumption that conditional mean function can transported ...

Some audio declipping methods produce waveforms that do not fully respect the physical process of clipping, which is why we refer to them as inconsistent. This letter reports what effect on perception it has if solution by inconsistent forced consistent postprocessing. We first propose a simple sample replacement method, then identify its main weaknesses and an improved variant. The experiments...

This paper provides results from seven major nationally representative datasets (two in detail) from the Pew Internet and American Life Project to answer two primary questions: (1) what influences people to seek online health information and (2) what influences their perceived outcomes from having access to this information? Cross-tabulations, logistic regressions, and multidimensional scaling ...

BACKGROUNDS & OBJECTIVE End-stage renal disease (ESRD) frequently causes Protein Energy Wasting (PEW), which is an important morbidity and mortality factor. Although it is difficult to assess PEW with a reliable method, there are various methods such as Handgrip strength test (HST), serum albumin, cholesterol, etc. HST is a simple and reliable antropometric method which is used for nutritional ...

CLIN ICAL NURSE SPEC IALI ST specialty nursing certifying organizations, The Pew Health Professions Commission, the Citizen Advocacy Center (CAC) (www.cacenter.org), the Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR) (www.clearhq.org), and the Federation of Associations of Regulatory Boards (www.farb.org). The latter 3 organizations are resources for professional regulatory board memb...

Protein-energy wasting (PEW) is strongly associated with high mortality in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients. However, its clinical assessment has not been well defined. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between combined nutritional indicators and mortality in CAPD patients. In the present retrospective cohort study, a total of 885 incident...

NEW MEDIA, NEW COMMUNITIES Thirty-five years after Licklider and Taylor (1968) first envisioned virtual communities, and exactly 10 years after Rheingold (1993) popularized the concept, online sociability is a fact of everyday life. According to a Pew Internet & American Life Project report (2001), 84 percent of all American internet users contacted an online group at least once and 79 percent ...