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OBJECTIVE To estimate a safe minimum hospital volume for hospitals performing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. DATA SOURCE Hospital data on all publicly funded CABG in five European countries, 2007-2009 (106,149 patients). DESIGN Hierarchical logistic regression models to estimate the relationship between hospital volume and mortality, allowing for case mix. Segmented regression...

Correspondence H. M. D. Novaes Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Dr. Arnaldo 455, 2o andar, São Paulo, SP 01246-903, Brasil. [email protected] The Brazilian Senate is currently reviewing Bill of Law n. 415 of 2015 (PLS 415; http://www25. senado.leg.br/web/atividade/materias/-/materia/122071), which requires defining, regulating, and publishing the cost-effectiveness parameter used for analyzing requ...

Agro-ecosystem models have been widely used to quantify soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics based on digital soil maps. However, most of the studies use soil data of single or limited choices of map scales, thus the influence of map scales on SOC dynamics has rarely been quantified. In this study, six digital paddy soils databases of the Tai-Lake region in China at scales of 1:50,000 (P005), 1:2...

By DORABJI HOBMUSJI, G.G.M.G. During the time that I was iu charge of the Bhuj Civil Hospital, which extended over a period of more than 19 years, I came across 415 cases of stone in the bladder, of which 395 were males and 20 females. On taking an average, it gives 21*5 cases per year. Out of 415 cases, I here give particulars, to avoid repetition, of the first 100 cases iu a tabular form. The...