Commentary: Time in the therapeutic window is time well spent

Is time on first-case starts well spent?

[Therapeutic time window in ischemic stroke].

近年,脳梗塞の治療では心筋梗塞の治療と同様に早 期診断・早期治療の重要性が叫ばれ,心筋梗塞が “Heart Attack”と呼ばれ可急的速やかに治療され一命 をとりとめるように,脳梗塞も“Brain Attack”と捉え 同様に速やかに治療を行い,後遺症を最小限にくいと めることの重要性が認識されつつある.脳虚血が発症 して脳血流が遮断されると脳組織は数時間で不可逆性 の変化をきたし壊死に陥って梗塞となる.ひとたび脳 梗塞に罹患すると片麻痺や言語障害などの神経症候, 記憶・記銘力の低下や情緒障害などの精神症状,さら にQOLの低下や痴呆症などの後遺症に苦しむことに なり社会的生命を失うことにもなる. 近年CT(computed tomography),MRI・A(magnetic resonance imaging・angiography),SPECT(single photon e...

The more time spent on listening, the less time spent on prescribing antibiotics in general practice.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the variation between primary care centres (PCCs) with regard to prescribing antibiotics and to investigate whether the variation can be explained by factors related to patient satisfaction and to socio-demographic characteristics of the populations in the catchment areas of the PCCs. METHODS The frequency of prescription of antibiotics by GPs at the PCCs was used as the ...

Time well spent? Relating television use to children's free-time activities.

OBJECTIVES This study assessed the claim that children's television use interferes with time spent in more developmentally appropriate activities. METHODS Data came from the first wave of the Child Development Supplement, a nationally representative sample of children aged 0 to 12 in 1997 (N = 1712). Twenty-four-hour time-use diaries from 1 randomly chosen weekday and 1 randomly chosen weeken...

Predicting Time Spent with Physician

The goal of this project is to predict how much time a physician should be spending with a patient, given the patient’s injury, referral status, and other reported, nonidentifiable medical information. This may be used as an additional factor for measuring and predicting physician efficiency alongside existing methodology. We implement linear regression and a variety of classification technique...