BACKGROUND Over the years, a plethora of frailty assessment tools has been developed. These instruments can be basically grouped into two types of conceptualizations - unidimensional, based on the physical-biological dimension - and multidimensional, based on the connections among the physical, psychological, and social domains. At present, studies on the comparison between uni- and multidimens...

There is an error in the last sentence of the Results subsection of the Abstract. The correct sentence is: The SWIFT, SOFA and TISS-28 scores showed similar predictive accuracy (AUC values were 0.66, 0. Copyright: © 2016 Rosa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproducti...

INTRODUCTION The utility of the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for amyloid imaging is not established. METHODS Fifty-three cognitively impaired patients with clinical F18-florbetapir imaging were classified as early and late onset, as well as AUC-consistent or AUC-inconsistent. Chi-square statistics and t test were used to compare demographic characteristics and clinical outcomes as appropria...

OBJECTIVE To study the association in a group of battery manufacturing workers between computerised postural sway parameters and present concentrations of blood lead (PPb), index of cumulative blood lead years (CBI), and cumulative blood lead at different years of exposure (CPbYs). METHODS Postural stability was investigated with a computerised postural sway measurement system in 60 workers e...

OBJECTIVE This article presents a decision support model that describes the mutual relationships among multiple variables for assessment of the outcome of endodontic treatment. STUDY DESIGN The model was built on the data-driven Bayesian network (BN) methodology. Randomized controlled trials of nonsurgical endodontic treatment from January 1966 through August 2007 were chosen to be our data s...

Interaction studies in dogs have indicated that antacids significantly decrease the oral bioavailability of cefixime. Twelve healthy adult male volunteers participated in a randomized, four-way crossover trial to evaluate the influence of an aluminum-magnesium antacid (Maalox; 20 ml) on the pharmacokinetics of cefixime (400 mg). Regimens were (i) cefixime alone; (ii) cefixime simultaneous with ...

A general expression for the correlation time of the decay of the magnetization of an assembly of singledomain noninteracting ferromagnetic particles is given in terms of the inverse of the Fokker-Planck operator. The results of Moro and Nordio @G. Moro and P. L. Nordio, Mol. Phys. 56, 255 ~1985!#, given in the context of dielectric relaxation, are recovered when the Fokker-Planck operator is a...

PURPOSE This report describes the development and preliminary analysis of a database for traumatically injured military service members with dysphagia. METHODS A multidimensional database was developed to capture clinical variables related to swallowing. Data were derived from clinical records and instrumental swallow studies, and ranged from demographics, injury characteristics, swallowing b...

OBJECTIVES This study examines the association of daily cortisol with depressive mood and anger. METHOD Depressive mood, anger and 2 markers of cortisol, area under the curve (AUC), and cortisol awakening response (CAR) were examined for caregivers (N = 164) of individuals with dementia (IWDs) across 8 days, some of which IWDs attended an adult day service (ADS) program. Caregivers were prima...

Diagnostic biomarkers are used frequently in epidemiologic and clinical work. The ability of a diagnostic biomarker to discriminate between subjects who develop disease (cases) and subjects who do not (controls) is often measured by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). The diagnostic biomarkers are usually measured with error. Ignoring measurement error can cause bi...