Rape Trauma Syndrome
The authors interviewed and followed 146 patients admitted during a one-year period to the emergency ward of a city hospital with a presenting complaint of having been raped. Ba...
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The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Results of an international guideline-based performance improvement program targeting severe sepsis*
The Campaign was associated with sustained, continuous quality improvement in sepsis care. Although not necessarily cause and effect, a reduction in reported hospital mortality ...
Early Lactate-Guided Therapy in Intensive Care Unit Patients
In patients with hyperlactatemia on ICU admission, lactate-guided therapy significantly reduced hospital mortality when adjusting for predefined risk factors. As this was consis...
Unpublished rating scales: A major source of bias in randomised controlled trials of treatments for schizophrenia
Background A recent review suggested an association between using unpublished scales in clinical trials and finding significant results. Aims To determine whether such an associ...
The Influence of Hospital Volume on Survival after Resection for Lung Cancer
Patients who undergo resection for lung cancer at hospitals that perform large numbers of such procedures are likely to survive longer than patients who have such surgery at hos...
Image and video upscaling from local self-examples
We propose a new high-quality and efficient single-image upscaling technique that extends existing example-based super-resolution frameworks. In our approach we do not rely on a...
Prediction of Mortality and Morbidity With a 6-Minute Walk Test in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction
<h3>Objective.</h3> —To study the potential usefulness of the 6-minute walk test, a self-paced submaximal exercise test, as a prognostic indicator in patients with left ventricu...
Keywords in Qualitative Methods
An essential companion for students across the social and health sciences, this text provides a wide-ranging coverage of qualitative methods complemented by extended illustratio...
The concept of entropy in landscape evolution
The concept of entropy is expressed in terms of probability of various states. Entropy treats of the distribution of energy. The principle is introduced that the most probable c...
Simplified Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System
Objectives To validate a simplified version of the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System, the TISS-28, and to determine the association of TISS-28 with the time spent on score...
Specification and Estimation of Cobb-Douglas Production Function Models
In this paper we consider the specification and estimation of the Cobb-Douglas production function model.After reviewing the "traditional" specifying assumptions for the model w...