▸ Additional material is published online only. To view please visit the journal online ABSTRACT Objective Our aim was to see if the reporting of better experiences by elective surgical patients was associated with better outcomes (effectiveness and safety). The objectives were to: describe the distribution of experience scores and any association with patients' characteristics; determine the r...

N umerous publications have investigated the practice of elective single-embryo transfer (eSET) (1–27). Single-embryo transfer after in vitro fertilization (IVF) has been advocated as the only effective means to avoid multiple pregnancy in IVF cycles (28). Elective SET is defined as the transfer of a single embryo at either the cleavage or blastocyst stage of embryo development that is selected...

This work aims to develop an elective multibiometric authentication. The novelty of this work is to develop the principles of distinction and multibiometric authentication, because at the moment there is no such development. Depending on various conditions and factors, including the availability of electronic means and convenience, resistance to attacks and exploits, disease or injury of users ...

Traditionally, the radiology elective has been designed to teach medical students the fundamentals of radiologic interpretation. When questioned, many students state that they want to take a radiology elective so they can "interpret images." For the students on radiology, rotation/elective education was often passive, consisting of didactic conferences and observational shadowing of radiologist...

BACKGROUND Elective abortions show a secular decline in high income countries. That general pattern, however, may mask meaningful differences-and a potentially rising trend-among age, income, and other racial/ethnic groups. We explore these differences in Denmark, a high-income, low-fertility country with excellent data on terminations and births. METHODS We examined monthly elective abortion...

AIMS To compare emergency and elective presentation of gastric cancer by mode of clinical presentation, initial stage, intervention and prognosis. METHODS Data were collected prospectively for all cases of gastric cancer presenting to a tertiary referral centre between 2003 and 2010. This was stratified by emergency and elective presentation and was analysed for mode of presentation, initial ...