OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of comprehensive geriatric assessment in hospital for older adults admitted as an emergency. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the EPOC Register, Cochrane's Controlled Trials Register, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Medline, Embase, CINAHL, AARP Ageline, and handsearched high yield journals. SELECTION CRITERIA Randomised controlled ...

1. Cowie B, Kluger R, Rex S, Missant C. The utility of transoesophageal echocardiography for estimating right ventricular systolic pressure. Anaesthesia 2015; 70: 258–63. 2. Soliman D, Bolliger D, Skarvan K, Kaufmann BA, Lurati Buse G, Seeberger MD. Intra-operative assessment of pulmonary artery pressure by transoesophageal echocardiography. Anaesthesia 2015; 70: 264–71. 3. Skjaerpe T, Hatle L....

This paper provides an overview of the concepts citations and journal impact factors, implications these metrics for Journal Southern African Institute Mining Metallurgy (JSAIMM). Two key research literature databases publish factors; namely, Web Science Scopus. Different equations are used to calculate factors care should be exercised when comparing different journals. The JSAIMM has a low fac...

A number of important points concerning the application of viability assessment in clinical practice, need to be clarified as they are often source of confusion for practicing physicians. First, the patients who are being considered for myocardial viability assessment should have documented coronary artery disease, with myocardial dysfunction, and these patients should be candidates for myocard...

Kaehr, E., Abele, P., & Little, M. (2016). Utility of the Easy-Care Standard 2010 in the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment of Adults Aging with Developmental Disabilities. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 17(12), 1159–1160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2016.08.024 Utility of the Easy-Care Standard 2010 in the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment of Adults Aging with Deve...

The aim of this paper is to understand whether the probability of receiving positive peer reviews is influenced by having published in an independently assessed, high-ranking journal: we eventually interpret a positive relationship among peer evaluation and journal ranking as evidence that journal ratings are good predictors of article quality. The analysis is based on a large dataset of over 1...

This is the second part of article under same head (published in issue this journal). ‘Quality control measures echocardiography reporting’ with regard to ventricular function assessment, cardiac thrombi and valvular assessment are described as a continuum previously for study analysis.

background: in this study, the impact of self-citation (journal and author) on impact factor of iranian english medical journals in two international citation databases, web of science (wos) and islamic world science citation center (isc), were compared by citation analysis. methods: twelve journals in wos and 26 journals in isc databases indexed between the years (2006-2009) were selected and ...

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