PURPOSE The current costs of treating cystoid macular edema (CME), a complication that can follow cataract surgery, are largely unknown. This analysis estimates the treatment costs for CME based on the recently released US Medicare data. SETTING Nationally representative database. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of the 2011 through 2013 Medicare 5% Beneficiary Encrypted Files. METHODS Benef...

AIMS To compare the ability to detect cystoid macular edema (CME) and its late complications between spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and fluorescein angiography (FA). METHODS Retrospective, observational, case series. 85 Eyes who had FA and SD-OCT performed on the same day at first visit and/or at follow-up visits were included. FA and SD-OCT images were evaluated for th...

BACKGROUND There has been minimal research into continuing medical education (CME) and its association with burnout among GPs. AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the association between participating in CME and experiencing burnout in a sample of Danish GPs. DESIGN OF STUDY Cross-sectional questionnaire study. SETTING All 458 active GPs in 2004, in the County of Aarhus, Denmark ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine the education and training background of Chinese community health centres (CHCs) staff, continuous medical education (CME) and factors affecting participation in CME. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Community health centres (CHCs). PARTICIPANTS All doctors and nurses working in selected CHCs (excluding those solely practising traditional Chine...

In this paper we present the first automatically constructed LASCO CME catalog, a result of the application of the Computer Aided CME Tracking software (CACTus) on the LASCO archive during the interval September 1997-January 2007. We have studied the CME characteristics and have compared them with similar results obtained by manual detection (CDAW CME catalog). On average CACTus detects less th...

Intrinsic noise, the stochastic cell-to-cell fluctuations in mRNAs and proteins, have been observed and proved to play important roles in cellular systems. Due to the recent development in single-cell-level measurement technology, the studies on intrinsic noise are becoming increasingly popular among scholars. The chemical master equation (CME) has been used to model the evolutions of complex c...

PURPOSE To obtain prospective evidence of whether industry support of continuing medical education (CME) affects perceptions of commercial bias in CME activities. METHOD The authors analyzed information from the CME activity database (346 CME activities of numerous types; 95,429 participants in 2007) of a large, multispecialty academic medical center to determine whether a relationship existe...

Intrinsic noise, the stochastic cell-to-cell fluctuations in mRNAs and proteins, has been observed and proved to play an important roles in cellular systems. Due to recent developments in single-cell-level measurement technology, the studies on intrinsic noise are becoming increasingly popular among scholars. The chemical master equation (CME) has been used to model the evolution of complex che...

We present a detailed simulation of the evolution of a moderately slow coronal mass ejection (CME; 800 km s 1 at 5 R , where R is solar radii) in the lower solar corona (2Y5 R ). The configuration of the Sun’s magnetic field is based on the MDI data for the solar surface during Carrington rotation 1922. The pre-CME background solar wind is generated using the Wang-Sheeley-Arge (WSA) model. To i...

OBJECTIVE To assess the perceived continuing medical education (CME) needs of a cohort of Canadian family physicians. METHODS We distributed a questionnaire survey to Canadian family physicians who became Certificant members of the College of Family Physicians in 2001 and practised outside the province of Quebec. Main outcome measures were self-reported CME needs, professional development nee...