INTRODUCTION Emergency department (ED) patients in the leave-without-being-seen (LWBS) group risk problems of inefficiency, medical risk, and financial loss. The goal at our hospital is to limit LWBS to <1%. This study's goal was to assess the influence on LWBS associated with prolonging intervals between patient presentation and placement in an exam room (DoorRoom time). This study's major aim...

The 1-searcher is a mobile guard whose visibility is limited to a ray emanating from his position, where the direction of the ray can be changed continuously with bounded angular rotation speed. Given a polygonal region P with a specified boundary point d, is it possible for a 1-searcher to eventually see a mobile intruder that is arbitrarily faster than the searcher within P, before the intrud...

BACKGROUND Digital replantation has become a well-established technique that has revolutionized hand surgery. One of the most important factors to a successful replantation is less than 12 hours of warm and 24 hours of cold ischemia time. The purpose of this article was to present a concept of door-to-surgery time and test the hypothesis that success in distal digital replantation is associated...

Remember all the to-do a couple of years ago about whether Florence Nightingale was a suitable role model l. for today's nurses? Tell you what, her common sense opinions on matters related to nurses and nursing seem just as apposite now as they undoubtedly were during her lifetime.

This article describes the first part of a study aiming at adapting the mechanical car door construction to the drivers' expectancies in terms of perceived quality of cars deduced from car door sounds. A perceptual cartography of car door sounds is obtained from various listening tests aiming at revealing both ecological and analytical properties linked to evoked car quality. In the first test ...

We review the main reasons pushing us beyond the SM and we argue in favor of new physics at the electroweak scale (hence experimentally accessible at present or near–future machines). We focus on the appealing possibility that such new physics is given by a super-symmetric (SUSY) extension of the SM. We discuss the minimal case, Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric SM, and more general (maybe mor...

BACKGROUND Bacterial meningitis continues to cause high mortality. Few studies address the possible association between this mortality and antibiotic administration delays. AIM To determine whether delays in antibiotic administration are associated with mortality from bacterial meningitis, and to identify inappropriate diagnostic-treatment sequences leading to such delays. DESIGN Retrospect...

Two separate arrests occurr­ ed at off-campus parties last night in the ND/SMC offcampus neighborhood, an area described by South Bend city officials as a “ fragile neighbor­ hood.’’ An undercover policeman dis­ guised in a gray Notre Dame sweatshirt appeared at the door of a private Finance Club cookout (1512 South Bend Ave.), claimed he was a finance major and gave his two dollar dona­ tion t...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Dementia is increasing as a priority public health problem because of the ageing of the world population. Our goal was to estimate dementia and cognitive impairment prevalence in an elderly population of rural Benin. METHODS In a door-to-door survey, elderly people aged 65 years and above were screened using the Community Screening Interview for Dementia and the Five-Word Test...