Acknowledgments: The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or the Federal Reserve System. These comments were prepared for presentation at the 2003 meeting of the American Statistical Association. We thank Alastair Hall for the opportunity to discuss the paper and Anita Todd for editorial assistance.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Knowing characteristic adverse events (AEs) and their incidence among patients participating in acute stroke trials may assist interpretation of future studies. We aimed to develop an online tool to inform stroke trial safety. METHODS We identified relevant AEs from patients within the Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive (VISTA), using receiver operating charact...

Introduction Bolus is a soft and resilient material which is used for increasing skin dose or to even out the irregular patient contour. The main property of various materials used presently as bolus is the water-equivalent electron density. Ethyl methacrylate is used as a soft-liner in dentistry and its physical and chemical properties are proved to be nontoxic for human body. The goal of this...

BACKGROUND The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) universal surgical risk calculator is an online tool intended to improve the informed consent process and surgical decision-making. The risk calculator uses a database of information from 585 hospitals to predict a patient's risk of developing specific postoperative outcomes. METHODS Patient ...

Introduction: The objective of this study was to describe the modalities responses observed following realization a bolus methylprednisolone in children treated for nephrotic syndrome pediatric nephrology unit Abidjan order assess need its our practice. Methods: we carried out descriptive and analytical cross-sectional patients followed up having benefited from administration 3 boluses at dosag...

Introduction: The present study aimed to generate intensity-modulated beams with Aluminium compensating filters for a conventional telecobalt machine based on the outputs of a treatment planning system (TPS) performing forward planning and cannot simulate directly the compensating filter. Materials and Methods: In order to achieve the beam intensity modulation during treatment planning with th...

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