OBJECTIVE A growing body of literature supports use of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) with instillation and dwell time (NPWTi-d) with positive clinical outcomes and potential cost savings. A retrospective analysis was performed to compare clinical outcomes of wounds treated with NPWTi-d versus NPWT and to estimate cost-differences between treatments based on clinical outcomes. METHODS...

(2014). Order parameter and connectivity topology analysis of crystalline ceramics for nuclear waste immobilization. General rights This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: Explore Bristol Research is a digital archive and the intention is that deposited content shoul...

BACKGROUND Plasma concentrations of several trace elements and vitamins decrease because of the systemic inflammatory response. Thus, low values do not necessarily indicate deficiency. OBJECTIVE The magnitude of this effect on plasma micronutrient concentrations was investigated to provide guidance on the interpretation of routine clinical results. DESIGN Between 2001 and 2011, the results ...

In view of the importance of actinomycetes in the production of antibiotics, it would be useful to find plasmids in these organisms in order to construct molecular breeding systems. Since the first discovery of plasmid involvement in antibiotic production", several plasmids associated with the production of antibiotics have been found in Streptomyces (references are listed in AKAGAWA et al.-')....

K e y w o r d s : Health services, personel, measurement, scheduling 1 . I n t r o d u c t i o n A few years ago a system of budgetting was introduced in Dutch hospitals. The Dutch National Hospital Board and the National Consultants Union together published a declaration of intent regarding the budgetting situation. Some important points are: cost budgets and activities have to be completely m...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between time in the therapeutic range (TTR) and clinical outcomes in heart failure patients in sinus rhythm treated with warfarin. METHODS AND RESULTS We used data from the Warfarin versus Aspirin in Reduced Cardiac Ejection Fraction (WARCEF) trial to assess the relationship of TTR with the WARCEF primary outcome (ischemic stroke...

Recent events have significantly increased the level of interest in using sensors to detect the presence of contaminants in municipal water distribution systems. A key deployment issue is identifying where a limited number of sensors should be placed in order to maximize the level of protection afforded. Researchers have proposed several algorithms for generating such placements, each optimizin...

CONTEXT Asthma is a chronic airway disorder which is associated to the inflammatory cells. Inflammatory and immune cells generate more reactive oxygen species in patients suffering from asthma which leads to tissue injury. AIMS To investigate the role of oxidant-antioxidant imbalance in disease progression of asthmatic patients. SETTINGS AND DESIGN In this study, 130 asthmatic patients and ...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.01.035 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +39 51 2093028; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Z. Na (P. Toth), [email protected] (L. Galli). In this paper we propose a new heuristic algorithm to solve the unicost version of the well-known set covering problem. The method is based on the electromagnetism metaheuris...

This paper presents the CFH12K-VIRMOS survey: a deep B, V, R and I imaging survey in four fields totalling more than 17 deg, conducted with the 30× 40 arcmin field CFH-12K camera. The survey is intended to be a multi-purpose survey used for a variety of science goals, including surveys of very high redshift galaxies and weak lensing studies. Four high galactic latitude fields, each 2 × 2 deg, h...