Monitoring clinical performance: A commentary

Clinical performance characteristics of hemodialysis graft monitoring.

BACKGROUND Regular monitoring of dialysis grafts is recommended, but the value of dialysis graft blood flow monitoring and venous pressures in predicting subsequent outcomes are controversial. METHODS Over a period of one month, we performed simultaneous flow and venous pressure monitoring in 71 dialysis patients with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) grafts. These patients were prospectively fo...

Commentary: Acceptable performance standards for clinical laboratory methods

Editorial Commenta rx/ 1982: A new start for the Journal Many of you will have noticed in the fourth issue of Volume 3 that the Journal has recently been acquired by Taylor & Francis Ltd. This will add the considerable experience of a scientific publisher, founded in 1798 with over 30journals already in their portfolio, to the active editorial team established by myself and United Trade Press. ...

A Performance Measurement Framework for Clinical Pathways Monitoring

CGRP : Clinical Commentary

This is an experimental study in 7 healthy volunteers, in a placebo controlled, double-blind, crossover design, with the participants receiving placebo, 2.5 mg or 10 mg of BIBN4096 intravenously on 3 different days. The assessment of cerebral and systemic hemodynamics was done using transcranial Doppler measuring blood flow velocity of the middle cerebral artery, 133-Xenon inhalation SPECT to m...

Clinical concepts and commentary.

AS part of the effort to develop mechanisms-based approaches to pain therapy, renewed interest has focused on the use of ketamine for treatment of acute and chronic pain. In particular, the role of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) excitatory glutamate receptors in nociceptive transmission has been established in humans. NMDA receptors participate in the development and maintenance of what can be cal...