PURPOSE To compare the outcome of open versus endoscopic gluteal tendon repair. METHODS An extensive review of PubMed was conducted by 2 independent reviewers for articles containing at least 1 of the following search terms: gluteus medius, gluteus medius tear, gluteus medius tendinopathy, gluteus medius repair, hip abductors, hip abductor tears, hip abductor repair, hip rotator cuff, hip rot...

Active integrity constraints (AICs) are a form of integrity constraints for databases that not only identify inconsistencies, but also suggest how these can be overcome. The semantics for AICs defines different types of repairs, but deciding whether an inconsistent database can be repaired is a NPor Σ p-complete problem, depending on the type of repairs one has in mind. In this paper, we introd...

Answer set programming is a form of declarative programming that can be used to elegantly model various systems. When the available knowledge about these systems is imperfect, however, the resulting programs can be inconsistent. In such cases, it is of interest to find plausible repairs, i.e. plausible modifications to the original program that ensure the existence of at least one answer set. A...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of an endovascular stent-graft program on vascular training in open aortic aneurysm surgery. METHODS The institutional and vascular surgery fellow experience in aortic aneurysm repair during a 6-year period was reviewed. The 3-year period before introduction of endovascular repair was compared with the 3-year period after introduct...

INTRODUCTION Ventral hernia repairs are common surgical procedures and quality monitoring with a high validity is mandatory. The aim of the present study was to validate the data quality of the Danish Ventral Hernia Database (DVHD). MATERIAL AND METHODS All ventral hernia repairs performed in the Region of Zealand and registered in the DVHD between 1 October 2010 and 1 October 2011 were inclu...

Speech repairs occur often in spontaneous spoken dialogues. The ability to detect and correct those repairs is necessary for every spoken language system. We present a framework to detect and correct speech repairs where all relevant levels of information, i.e., acoustics, lexic, syntax and semantics could be integrated. The basic idea is to reduce the search space for repairs as soon as possib...

We present a declarative framework for updating views over indefinite databases, that is, databases with null values. The framework follows the standard database approach, which allows for a unique null constant. As the main contributions of the paper, we introduce the concept of an indefinite deductive database as a formal representation of a view over an indefinite database, propose a semanti...

PURPOSE To determine the trends in SLAP repairs over time, including patient age, and percentage of SLAP repairs versus other common shoulder arthroscopic procedures. METHODS The records of 4 sports or shoulder/elbow fellowship trained orthopaedic surgeons were used to identify the total number of common shoulder arthroscopic cases performed between 2004 and 2014 using current procedural term...

When a group of authors collaboratively edits interrelated documents, consistency problems occur almost immediately. Current document management systems (DMSs) provide useful mechanisms such as document locking and version control, but often lack consistency management facilities. At best, consistency is “defined” via informal guidelines, which do not support automatic consistency checks. In th...