BACKGROUND There is substantial underuse and overuse of antibiotic prophylaxis. Current American Heart Association (AHA) recommendations are heavily dependent on echocardiographic data that may not be familiar to referring physicians. We sought to determine the impact of a specific prophylaxis report comment on compliance with AHA recommendations. METHODS AND RESULTS Using a standardized elec...

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Statement of investment deposits performance is a separate and supplementary financial statement that is designed with two objectives: 1. Improvement in the level of disclosure and accountability of the banks to the owners of investment deposits as the main providers of the banks’ resources, and 2. Implementation of the IFRS standards on banking business in Iran. In this paper, the principles g...

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) tests are used to diagnose and monitor inflammatory activity in Wegener granulomatosis, microscopic polyangiitis and its renal-limited variant (pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis), and Churg-Strauss syndrome. The International Consensus Statement on testing and reporting of ANCA states that ANCA are demonstrated most readily in these conditions...

In Japanese, case structure analysis is very important to handle several troublesome characteristics of Japanese such as scrambling, omission of case components, and disappearance of case markers. However, for lack of a widecoverage case frame dictionary, it has been difficult to perform case structure analysis accurately. Although several methods to construct a case frame dictionary from analy...

I would like to thank Drs Terplan and Zuckerman for their comments on the recently published position statement, which myself and the other cosignatory authors take very seriously. If I may summarise Drs Terplan and Zuckerman‘s argument. It starts with the assumption that there is now clear evidence proving that levonorgestel (LNG)and norethisterone acetate (NETA)-containing combined oral contr...

ACR Appropriateness Criteria 1 Pretreatment Staging Colorectal Cancer American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria Clinical Condition: Pretreatment Staging of Colorectal Cancer Variant 1: Rectal cancer (small or superficial). Radiologic Procedure Rating Comments RRL* US pelvis endorectal 8 For assessment of level of rectal wall involvement. O CT chest abdomen pelvis with contrast ...

Introduction Applications for and research on lasers in dentistry continues to expand since their introduction to the dental profession. Dental laser systems are cleared for marketing in the United States via the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Premarket Notification [510(k)] process. The primary purpose of this Statement is to provide comments and a science-based perspective on several incr...

In this article we derive a strong version of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for general nonlinear optimal control problems on time scales in finite dimension. The final time can be fixed or not, and in the case of general boundary conditions we derive the corresponding transversality conditions. Our proof is based on Ekeland’s variational principle. Our statement and comments clearly show th...