Background and Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic is a phenomenon that has infected and killed many people worldwide. Underlying diseases such as diabetes mellitus, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease (CKD) can affect the severity of COVID-19 and aggravate patients' condition. This study aimed to predict the severity of the COVID-19 disease in CKD patients by combining feature selection and...

BACKGROUND Illness severity scores are commonly employed in critically ill patients to predict outcome. To date, prior scores for post-cardiac arrest patients rely on some event-related data. We developed an early, novel post-arrest illness severity score to predict survival, good outcome and development of multiple organ failure (MOF) after cardiac arrest. METHODS Retrospective review of dat...

BACKGROUND Prognostic biomarkers that predict the severity of AKI at an early time point are needed. Urinary angiotensinogen was recently identified as a prognostic AKI biomarker. The study hypothesis is that urinary renin could also predict AKI severity and that in combination angiotensinogen and renin would be a strong predictor of prognosis at the time of AKI diagnosis. DESIGN, SETTING, PA...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore interactions among personal, cancer, aging, and symptom variables relative to physical function (PF) in older adult breast cancer survivors to better identify vulnerable subgroups. DESIGN Secondary analysis of the American Cancer Society Studies of Cancer Survivors II. SETTING U.S. population-based mail and telephone survey. SAMPLE 2,885 breast cancer survivo...

The aim of this study was to determine the differences and importance in terms some socio-economic factors agricultural practices producers who had soil analysis Edirne Tekirdağ provinces evaluate opinions about subsidies. Three laboratories were selected among with highest number sample acceptances for determined study. For each province, total 60 applied 2015 utilized from subsidies, conseque...

Objectives To examine the effects of match-related contextual variables on positional groups and success in National Rugby League (NRL). Methods Data relating to match location, outcome, quality opposition type (absolute score differential) from all matches across 2015–2019 NRL seasons were collected, addition 14 previously identified Factors (technical performance indicators). A decision tree,...

OBJECTIVE The European Surgical Outcomes Study described mortality following in-patient surgery. Several factors were identified that were able to predict poor outcomes in a multivariate analysis. These included age, procedure urgency, severity and type and the American Association of Anaesthesia score. This study describes in greater detail the relationship between the American Association of ...

BACKGROUND To develop a quality community-based care management system, it is important to identify the actual use of long-term care insurance (LTCI) services and the most frequent combinations of services. It is also important to determine the factors associated with the use of such combinations. METHODS This study was conducted in 10 care management agencies in the urban area around Tokyo, ...