BACKGROUND Although many patients with cancer would prefer to die at home, most die in hospital. We carried out a study to describe the yearly trends in the place of death between 1992 and 1997 and to determine predictors of out-of-hospital death for adults with cancer in Nova Scotia. METHODS In this population-based study, we linked administrative health data from 2 databases - the Nova Scot...

A P P A C R G A N U F S A ore than 40 million Americans take aspirin for the primary or econdary prevention of myocardial infarction and stroke, inluding approximately half of all those aged 65 years or more. he daily dose varies from 81 mg (1 baby aspirin) to 325 mg 1 adult aspirin). The efficacy of aspirin for the secondary revention of myocardial infarction and stroke has been valiated by mu...

Cryptography is about communication in the presence of an adversary. It encompasses many problems like encryption, authentication, and key distribution to name a few. The field of modern cryptography provides a theoretical foundation based on which one can understand what exactly these problems are, how to evaluate protocols that purport to solve them and how to build protocols in whose securit...

Background Skin involvement is a hallmark of systemic sclerosis and an important marker disease activity, severity prognosis. [1] The modified Rodnan skin score (mRSS), the current gold standard for evaluation in SSc, both clinical trials practice, has several limitations. [2] This highlights need more sensitive objective measures involvement, not only support development new treatments, but al...

The Climate Research Facility of the US Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program operates a network of ground-based microwave radiometers. Data and retrievals from these instruments have been available to the scientific community for almost 20 yr. In the past five years the network has expanded to include a total of 22 microwave radiometers deployed in various loca...

ZB MED – Leibniz Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften sieht sich als Partner für Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in den Lebenswissenschaften im Bereich Open-Access-Publizieren (Volltexte und Forschungsdaten). Im Beitrag werden die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten des Publizierens bei ZB MED vorgestellt und die Vorteile des ZB MED-Publikationsportals dargestellt: Für den lebenswissenscha...

We obtained data from the French Ministry of Transport on all road crashes during 1994-8 (640 670) in which at least one person was severely injured (confirmed by paramedics) or died. Crashes were attended by police officers, who completed a standard ministry questionnaire that covered time of incident, location, road and weather conditions, vehicles involved, mechanical defects, health of driv...

We write in response to a recent discussion Value Health over the preference weights for EQ-5D-5L.1Norman R. Olsen J. Competing views on EQ-5D-5L valuation set.Value Health. 2020; 23: 574-575Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (4) Google Scholar It would appear that there is disagreement and options open move from EQ-5D-3L value framework support reference case lifetime models NICE assessment....

In his timely article [1], Dr. P.K. Singal reviews the More recently, the results of 34 controlled clinical trials relationship between oxidative stress, antioxidants and and many open-label and long-term studies were reviewed cardiac diseases. This field is the most extensively investi[2]. The largest study to date involves 2359 patients and gated area of cardiovascular research with consequen...

In preclinical studies, high-dose human albumin has been shown to be highly neuroprotective by reducing infarct volume and cerebral edema and improving behavioral function. To address whether this concept of neuroprotection could be conveyed in humans, 2 large, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled phase III trials were initiated to ascertain whether 25% human serum albumin confers benefi...