OBJECTIVE To document the views of patients and the public towards the summary care record (SCR, a centrally stored medical record drawn from the general practice record) and HealthSpace (a personal health organiser accessible through the internet from which people can view their SCR), with a particular focus on those with low health literacy, potentially stigmatising conditions, or difficultie...

BACKGROUND Non-equivalence in serum creatinine (SCr) measurements across Dutch laboratories and the consequences hereof on chronic kidney disease (CKD) staging were examined. METHODS National data from the Dutch annual external quality organization of 2009 were used. 144 participating laboratories examined 11 pairs of commutable, value-assigned SCr specimens in the range 52-262 μmol/L, using ...

BACKGROUND Preoperative renal failure is a risk factor for adverse events in cardiac surgery. Serum creatinine (SCr) is the most used test for renal failure. However, patients can have significantly decreased glomerular filtration rates with normal SCr levels. More accurate approximation of renal function can be obtained using the Cockroft-Gault equation to calculate an estimated creatinine cle...

The correlation between serum creatinine and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) values and clinical pathology and prognosis in patients with renal injury caused by anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis were analyzed. Eighty-six patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) treated in the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University were enrolled in the study. Patient...

SHORT-ROOT (SHR) and SCARECROW (SCR) are required for stem cell maintenance in the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) root meristem, ensuring its indeterminate growth. Mutation of SHR and SCR genes results in disorganization of the quiescent center and loss of stem cell activity, resulting in the cessation of root growth. This paper reports on the role of SHR and SCR in the development of leave...

Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) is one of the most effective technologies used for eliminating NOx from diesel engines. This paper presents a novel method based on a support vector machine (SVM) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) with grid search (GS) to diagnose the degree of aging of the V2O5/WO3–TiO2 catalyst in the SCR system. This study shows the aging effect on the performance of a...

INTRODUCTION Renal function is reported using the estimates of glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). However, eGFR values are recorded without reference to the particular serum creatinine (SCr) assays used to derive them, and newer assays were introduced at different time points across the laboratories in the United Kingdom. These changes may cause systematic bias in eGFR reported in routinely col...

BACKGROUND Preoperative renal insufficiency is an important predictor of the need for postoperative renal replacement therapy (RRT). Serum creatinine (sCr) has a limited ability to identify patients with preoperative renal insufficiency because it varies with age, sex, and muscle mass. Calculated creatinine clearance (CrCl) is an alternative measure of renal function that may allow better estim...