OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of sustained improved nutritional outcomes through the use of quality improvement (QI) methodology. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of a QI intervention in two institutions, implemented as part of larger national collaboratives. SETTING Paediatric cystic fibrosis (CF) programmes in academic centres in Alabama and Illinois. PARTICIPANTS All paediatri...

INTRODUCTION Sepsis-related multiple organ dysfunction is a common cause of death in the intensive care unit. The effect of sepsis on markers of tissue repair is only partly understood. The aim of this study was to measure markers of collagen synthesis and degradation during sepsis and investigate the association with disease severity and outcome. METHODS Forty-four patients with severe sepsi...

Background: Poverty and low socioeconomic status are the most important reasons of increasing the global burden of tuberculosis, not only in developing countries but also in developed countries for particular groups. The purpose of this study was to assess the association between socioeconomic factors and the number of tuberculosis patients using quantile regression for count data.   Me...

Background: Application of growth indicators taken from other countries can cause misdiagnosis of underweight and stunting. In this study we compared the trend of anthropometric growth indicators between the elementary school students of Yazd with the international standards. Methods: The study population of this retrospective cohort study consisted of 591 primary school children in Yazd (285 g...

PURPOSE To report the immediate changes of intraocular (IOP) pressure after an intravitreal injection of 2.5mg (0.1 ml) of bevacizumab. METHODS Prospective, non-controlled, interventional case series of 45 patients undergoing intravitreal injection of 2.5mg (0.1 mL) of bevacizumab for a variety of retinal disorders. IOP was measured with a Goldmann tonometer at baseline, immediately after, 30...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of weight percentile on deep neck infections in children. METHODS A retrospective evaluation of 79 patients who were treated for deep neck infections. The patients were divided into six groups according to weight percentile. Patients who had systemic and/or congenital disease were excluded. Their demographics, etiology, localization, laboratory, and treatment...

the improved estimator of the variance in the general linear model is presented under an asymmetric linex loss function.

the purpose of this paper is to provide some asymptotic results for nonparametric estimator of the lorenz curve and lorenz process for the case in which data are assumed to be strong mixing subject to random left truncation. first, we show that nonparametric estimator of the lorenz curve is uniformly strongly consistent for the associated lorenz curve. also, a strong gaussian approximation for ...

The fifth-generation (5G) system utilizing millimeter wave is available in Japan, but more bandwidth demanded by the mobile phone operators to accommodate demand for high data rate. Allocation of vacant spectrum impossible due past allocation other radio systems. For example, 24.25-27.5 GHz has been allocated fixed wireless access (FWA) and license exempt small power communication Japan. Althou...

Inverted indexes continue to be a mainstay of text search engines, allowing efficient querying large document collections. While there are number possible organizations, document-ordered the most common, since they amenable various query types, support index updates, and allow for dynamic pruning operations. One disadvantage with is that high-scoring documents can distributed across identifier ...