BACKGROUND Severe trauma to the extremities often includes a combination of fractures and soft tissue injuries. Several publications support that the patient outcome is better when skeletal stabilization is followed by early soft-tissue coverage. In an effort to optimize the treatment of these patients, we established a formalized collaboration in 2008 between the Departments of reconstructive ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate how often coding changes between and within revisions of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) complicate the description of long-term trends in cause-specific mortality. METHODS Data on cause-specific mortality between 1950 and 1999 for men and women aged 60 and older were obtained from Denmark, England and Wales, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden...

This short paper follows an earlier NIME paper [1] describing the invention and construction of the Electrumpet. Revisions and playing experience are both part of the current paper. The Electrumpet can be heard in the performance given by Hans Leeuw and Diemo Schwarz at this NIME conference.

The revision of existing data must always be considered when new data are collected which have known relations with the old data, thereby taking into account that the two datasheets in question may belong to one and the same, or to two different hierarchical levels. In the first case, optimal data fusion would amount to a joint adjustment and, as a result, to modifications of the existing data ...

BACKGROUND The number of revision Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) is rising in many countries. The aim of this study was the prospective assessment of the underlying causes leading to revision TKA in a tertiary care hospital and the comparison of those reasons with previously published data. METHODS In this study patients who had revision TKA between 2010 and 2015 were prospectively included. R...

To explore and to compare different revisions of complex software systems is a challenging task as it requires to constantly switch between different revisions and the corresponding information visualization. This paper proposes to combine the concept of small multiples and focus+context techniques for software maps to facilitate the comparison of multiple software map themes and revisions simu...