The Italian Association of Haemophilia Centres reviewed and finally approved in November 2004 the new Italian Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with clotting factor inhibitors. The recommendations have been based on the identification of levels of clinical evidence derived from the systematic review carried out in 2003 by the School of Health and Related Research, the Unive...

Recommender systems (RS) are designed to assist users by recommending them items they should appreciate. User based RS exploit users behavior to generate recommendations. As a matter of fact, RS performance fluctuates across users. We are interested in analyzing the characteristics and behavior that make a user receives more accurate/inaccurate recommendations than another. We use a hybrid mode...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether prescribing physicians advised female patients taking isotretinoin according to pregnancy prevention recommendations, whether women understood those recommendations, and whether women complied with recommendations to prevent pregnancy. DESIGN Cross-sectional study designed to collect patients' self-reported information. Women were interviewed by telephone with a st...

The purpose of this study was to determine if international guidelines differ in their recommendations concerning additive therapy for advanced, but potentially curable, gastric cancer. A systematic search of the English and German literature was conducted in the databases Medline, Cochrane Database, Embase, and PubMed. The search terms used were 'guidelines gastric cancer,' 'guidelines stomach...

This brief meeting review summarizes the recommendations of NSF and NPGI funded bioinformaticians concerning the future requirements for plant bioinformatics systems and databases.

This paper discusses recent developments and recommendations for elderly patients concerning immunizations, heart failure, lipid therapy, blood pressure control, and dementia.

We present a different computational proof of the estimate of the number of microruns established in a recent CrochemoreIlie paper. The original proof in Crochemore-Ilie paper relies on computational means, and thus our proof provides an independent verification of the fact. We also introduce a notion of R-cover that is essential to our approach. The hope is that a further analysis of R-covers ...

To develop recommendations for the management of medium to high-dose (ie, >7.5 mg but ≤100 mg prednisone equivalent daily) systemic glucocorticoid (GC) therapy in rheumatic diseases. A multidisciplinary EULAR task force was formed, including rheumatic patients. After discussing the results of a general initial search on risks of GC therapy, each participant contributed 10 propositions on key cl...