background and aim: generally, in patients with cervical cancer, careful preliminary evaluation is necessary for avoiding improper surgical procedures and making effective clinical decisions for treatment. the aim of this study was to determine surgeons’ errors, which necessitate a combination of surgery and radiotherapy for cervical cancer patients.    methods: in this retrospective study, med...

It is well known that improper priors in Bayesian statistics may lead to proper posterior distributions and useful inference procedures. This motivates us to give an elementary introduction to a theoretical frame for statistics that includes improper priors. Axioms that allow improper priors are given by a relaxed version of Kolmogorov’s formulation of probability theory. The theory of conditio...

What is a good prior? Actual prior knowledge should be used, but for complex models this often not easily available. The can in the form of symmetry assumptions, and then choice will typically an improper prior. Also more generally, it quite common to choose priors. Motivated by we consider theoretical framework statistics that includes both priors posteriors. Knowledge represented possibly unb...

ANESTHETIZED patients who undergo surgical procedures may develop ulnar neuropathy. 1-6 Although the mechanism of ulnar neuropathy in the perioperative setting is often unclear, improper positioning or padding of the upper extremity during surgery is sometimes implicated’,’; however, there is little direct evidence to implicate improper intraoperative care as a cause of perioperative ulnar neur...

BACKGROUND Antisecretory drugs (ASDs) are prescribed for preventing and treating nonsteroidal, antiinflammatory drug (NSAID)-induced gastrointestinal adverse effects and for stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP). The suitability of long-term use of ASDs has been evaluated elsewhere but not in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). OBJECTIVES To evaluate the improper use of pantoprazole, a proton pump in...