The study's aim was to investigate the cost-effectiveness of an NHS/Social Services short-term residential rehabilitation unit (a form of intermediate care) for older people on discharge from community hospital compared with 'usual' community services. An economic evaluation was conducted alongside a prospective controlled trial, which explored the effectiveness of a rehabilitation unit in a pr...

OBJECTIVES To explore the cost-effectiveness of fluticasone propionate (FP) for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we estimated costs and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) over 3 years, based on an economic appraisal of a previously reported clinical trial (Inhaled Steroids in Obstructive Lung Disease in Europe [ISOLDE]). METHODS Seven hundred forty-two patients ...

DStrips is a simple and efficient method to dynamically manage and generate triangle strips for real-time viewdependent multiresolution meshing and rendering. Progressive view-dependent triangle mesh simplification and rendering is an important concept for interactive visualization environments. To minimize the rendering cost, triangle meshes are simplified to the maximal tolerated perceptual e...

BACKGROUND Natalizumab (Tysabri) is a new disease-modifying therapy that has been shown to be clinically effective in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and has been licensed for use in patients with highly active RRMS (HARRMS). These patients are those who experience higher relapse rates and faster disability progression than the general RRMS population. OBJECTIVES T...

this paper is concerned with the following elliptic system:$$ left{ begin{array}{ll} -triangle u + b(x)nabla u + v(x)u=g(x, v), -triangle v - b(x)nabla v + v(x)v=f(x, u), end{array} right. $$ for $x in {r}^{n}$, where $v $, $b$ and $w$ are 1-periodic in $x$, and $f(x,t)$, $g(x,t)$ are super-quadratic. in this paper, we give a new technique to show the boundedness of cerami sequences and establi...