BACKGROUND Since publication of the Duke criteria for diagnosing endocarditis, several articles have confirmed their sensitivity when native and prosthetic valves are considered together. OBJECTIVES To compare the differences between the older von Reyn criteria and the Duke criteria in prosthetic valve endocarditis only, and to determine if the latter's sensitivity could be improved by adding...

1 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, 2 Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, 3 Department of Society, Human Development & Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Center for Community-Based Research, Dana Farber ...

Authors: Alan D. Dorval, Alexis M. Kuncel, Merrill J. Birdno, Dennis A. Turner and Warren M. Grill 4 Affiliations: 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham NC 5 2. Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC 6 3. Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC 7 4. Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City...

Samantha J. Mentch1 and Jason W. Locasale1,2,3,4 1Field of Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 2Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina. 3Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina. 4Duke Molecular Physiol...

The 17-item Duke Health Profile (DUKE) was developed as a refined version of the 63-item Duke-UNC Health Profile (DUHP) using a methodology based upon a balanced clinical and statistical rationale. The result is a brief, valid functional health measure with 10 scales that compares well with the MOS Short-form and the COOP Charts. In addition to the five constructs (ambulation, emotional symptom...

Jonathan R. Stroud y Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A. Peter Müller Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0251, U.S.A. Gary L. Rosner Biometry Division, Community & Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC 27710, U.S.A., and Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, Durham...

Geometric Approximation Algorithms: A Summary Based Approach by Sharathkumar Raghvendra Department of Computer Science, Duke University Duke University

505. Quantitative Analysis of Microbial Burden on Hospital Room Environmental Surfaces Contributing to Healthcare-Associated Infections William A. Rutala, PhD, MPH; Hajime Kanamori, MD, PhD, MPH; Maria Gergen, MT (ASCP); Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS; Lauren P. Knelson, MSPH; Luke F. Chen, MBBS, MPH, MBA, CIC, FRACP; Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA; Daniel Sexton and David J. Weber, ...