Cancer staging provides a basis for planning clinical management, but also allows for meaningful analysis of cancer outcomes and evaluation of cancer care services. Despite this, stage data in cancer registries is often incomplete, inaccurate or simply not collected. This article describes a prototype software system (Cancer Stage Interpretation System, CSIS) which automatically extracts cancer...

Cancer staging provides a basis for planning clinical management, but also allows for meaningful analysis of cancer outcomes and evaluation of cancer care services. Despite this, stage data in cancer registries is often incomplete, inaccurate, or simply not collected. This article describes a prototype software system (Cancer Stage Interpretation System, CSIS) that automatically extracts cancer...

Diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) family of proteins, which phosphorylates diacylglycerol into phosphatidic acid, play important role in controlling diverse cellular processes in eukaryotic organisms. Most vertebrate species contain 10 different DGK isozymes, which are grouped into 5 different classes based on the presence or absence of specific functional domains. However, the relationships among di...

Age is the most important risk factor for the development of cognitive decline and dementia. Nevertheless, memory concerns are also prevalent in younger age groups, prompting referral of such patients from primary care to dedicated memory clinics for assessment. Because of the operation of age criteria in some memory clinics, for example those conducted under the auspices of geriatricians and o...

OBJECTIVE To develop a patient safety culture instrument for use in Chinese hospitals, we assessed the appropriateness of existing safety culture questionnaires used in the USA and Japan for Chinese respondents and identified new items and domains suitable to Chinese hospitals. DESIGN Focus group study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Twenty-four physicians, nurses and other health-care workers fr...

Translation can have long-term effects on all languages and cultures. It is not a mere linguistic act, but mostly a cultural act, since language is by nature one of the major carriers of cultural elements. Thus, the translator’s job is not just transferring the meaning of words and sentences from the source text to the target text. Culture-specific items often cause translation problems. Identi...