Could we have done better with COVID-19 in nursing homes?

COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: The Problematic Management of Residents Without Positive COVID-19 RT-PCR

"What went well"? "What could have been done better"?

http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Evaluations of the processes involved in an intervention are similar to the way in which diagnoses and treatments are defined in clinical medicine. Diagnoses and interventions cannot be accomplished without knowing the physiology/pathophysiology of the organ system(s) involved. Therapy is directed at the pathophysiology. As noted in...

Basin modelling : how well have we done ?

Model developers have been highly successful in building usable, useful, and reliable one-dimensional models, and in convincing explorationists to use them. Development of convenient, universal software played an instrumental role in the acceptance of 1-D modelling. The remaining weaknesses in technology and training, while serious, can be resolved through a few years of intensive work in certa...

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Serum cytokeratin 19 fragment in advanced lung cancer: could we eventually have a serum tumor marker?

INTRODUCTION Lung cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies; however, no serum marker has been routinely recommended until now. METHODS THIS IS A PROSPECTIVE CASE CONTROL STUDY INCLUDING TWO GROUPS OF PATIENTS: Group I-patients with advanced lung cancer and Group II-patients with benign lung disease as control. Serum cytokeratin 19 (CK19) fragment levels were measured at baseline by real-...