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Antibiotic prophylaxis for high-risk patients with acute Q Fever: no definitive answers yet.

respec-tively. Fourteen (78%) websites note formulary restriction, of which 3 do not provide a list of restricted agents. Antimicrobial dosing recommendations and guidelines or clinical decision pathways are provided by 14 (78%) and 12 (67%) sites, respectively. Four (22%) provide information as one PDF document. Thirteen (72%) websites were determined to be comprehensive (Table 1). Publicly ac...

Five Answers on Pragmatism

Prof. Haack answers a series of questions on pragmatism, beginning with the origins of this tradition in the work of Peirce and James, its evolution in the work of Dewey and Mead, and its influence beyond the United States in, for example, the Italian pragmatists and the radical British pragmatist F. C. S. Schiller. Classical pragmatism, she observes, is a rich and varied tradition from which t...

Short-term prognosis of definitive neonatal infection

On Yahoo Answers, Long Answers are Best

We provide an analysis of best answers (as chosen by questioners) on Yahoo Answers, a popular online Q&A site with millions of monthly contributors. Our analysis is done mainly through the lens of prediction: we compile a dataset that is as large and fine-grained as any considered before, generate features across a range of different classes, and build a classifier to predict which answers will...

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La pluripatología, la dependencia y la fragilidad asociadas a la vejez y a la merma de las capacidades de la persona suponen un sufrimiento importante que debe tenerse en cuenta en estrategias y planes terapéuticos. La respuesta al diagnóstico de una enfermedad crónica siempre tiene implicaciones psicológicas y sociales complejas, que dan lugar a una merma en la calidad de vida percibida por la...