BACKGROUND The Arthroplasty Clinical Outcomes Registry NSW (ACORN) was initiated in 2012. ACORN is a registry piloting within NSW, Australia with several participating hospitals; it aims to monitor patient-centred outcomes and post-surgical complications after total hip and knee arthroplasty. Using retrospective audit methodology, we aimed to investigate the completeness and accuracy of data in...

Objective The objective of this project was to develop core competencies for education on opioids and addiction to be used in all Pennsylvania medical schools. Methods The Pennsylvania Physician General created a task force that was responsible for the creation of the core competencies. A literature review was completed, and a survey of graduating medical students was conducted. The task forc...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 aim : this study was designed to investigate about findings of impedance ph-monitoring in patients with atypical symptoms of gerd. background : the routine treatment with proton pump inhibitors is not very effective in patients with atypical symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (gerd). it may be due to non-acid ref...

background gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) is a common problem seen in pediatrics and adolescents. the bravo tm ph monitoring system is a capsule that detects and quantifies the severity of reflux disease. this test is also valuable for evaluation of patients with extra-gastrointestinal manifestations of gerd such as asthma, chronic cough, hoarseness, aspiration pneumonia, and pre/post f...

We show that perfect monitoring is not necessarily the optimal monitoring technology in repeated games, unless players are both patient and have access to a mediator who can condition her recommendations on the entire history of actions and recommendations. This claim follows from three results. First, players can be better o¤ with unmediated imperfect (public or private) monitoring than with m...