Objectives: The Dartmouth Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice (SIIPC) seeks to prepare the next generation of scientists to investigate problems and solutions in the field of patients' health care decision making. The theme of the 2012 SIIPC was, “Measuring Shared Decision Making in Practice”. Methods: Twenty-five content experts in shared decision making and measurement presented the ...

INTRODUCTION There are numerous standard treatment options for men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer. Multidisciplinary consultation before decision-making is a consensus- and quality-based objective in Ontario. With the goals of working together more collaboratively and to provide higher quality information for patients at the time of decision-making, a prostate cancer community partner...

By making use of the linearization method, we examine a class nonterminating 3F2-series with five free integer parameters that yields twenty summation formulae. Under Kummer and Thomae transformations, six classes exotic are consequently evaluated in closed forms. There overall 100 identities recorded present paper

To continue the tradition of the previous brainstorming weeks on membrane computing, I am collecting here a series of open problems and research topics, not about membrane computing in general, but about one of the directions of research which were pretty much investigated in the last year: spiking neural P systems. In general, one mentions issues which look of a broader nature, but also some p...

The minimal concentrations of 26 antimicrobial agents required to inhibit growth of 100 isolates of Corynebacterium equi in vitro have been determined. The most active agents were penicillin G, doxycycline, erythromycin, lincomycin, and the aminoglycosides.

High seed quality is a critical component for realising yield potential. Forsmallholder cowpea farmers in northern Nigeria the informal seed system is amajor supplier of genetically high-quality seed, but the physiological quality offarmers’ produced seed remains unknown. The project “Promoting SustainableAgriculture in Borno State” (PROSAB) trained and supported farmers in seedproduction in Bo...

In the present study, the authors investigated the management of mechanical valve thrombosis (MVT). From January 1981 through March 2006, 2,908 mechanical valve replacements were performed in 2,298 patients at our institution. Twenty (0.87%) patients presented with MVT, 14 (70.0%) were women, and the mean age of the patients was 42.0+/-14.0 (27-66) yr. Thrombosis involved mitral in 14 (70.0%), ...

BACKGROUND Lower-extremity injury severity scoring systems were developed to assist surgeons in decision-making regarding whether to amputate or perform limb salvage after high-energy trauma to the lower extremity. These scoring systems have been shown to not be good predictors of limb amputation or salvage. This study was performed to evaluate the clinical utility of the five commonly used low...