Background. Quality monitoring and improvement is prerequisite for efficient colonoscopy. Aim. To assess the effects of increased sedation administration on colonoscopy performance. Materials and Methods. During Era 1 we prospectively measured four colonoscopy quality indicators: sedation administration, colonoscopy completion rate, adenoma detection rate, and early complications rate in three ...

BACKGROUND Missing data may bias the results of clinical trials and other studies. This study describes the response rate, questionnaire responses and financial costs associated with offering participants from a multilingual population the option to complete questionnaires over the telephone. METHODS DESIGN Before and after study of two methods of questionnaire completion. PARTICIPANTS A...

College dropout is widely considered a social problem. In fact, reducing dropout would not necessarily make society better off. This conclusion derives from analysis of the process of college enrollment and completion. The key observation is that students contemplating college entrance do not know whether completion will be feasible or desirable. Hence, enrollment is a decision to initiate an e...

Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) readily addresses the dynamic needs of the customers in terms of variety and quality. At present, there is a need to produce a wide range of quality products in limited time span. On-time delivery of customers’ orders is critical in make-to-order (MTO) manufacturing systems. The completion time of the orders depends on several factors including arrival rate, ...

BACKGROUND In up to 30 percent of small bowel capsule endoscopy procedures, the capsule does not reach the cecum within recording time. A prolonged gastric transit time has been recognized as a risk factor for incomplete capsule endoscopy. The aim of this study was to analyze if a single dose of orally administered erythromycin prior to capsule endoscopy results in a higher completion rate comp...

elaborate and complete analysis of the symptomatology of children's diseases. Bendix of Berlin treats of general prophylaxis; Neumann of general therapeutics; Prausniiz of morbidity; 37 pages are devoted by Raudnitz of Prague to the subject of milk; 50 more pnges are given to the metabolism and nutrition of the first year. The second volume is devoted to special diseases, e.g, 80 pages on the d...

Introduction Dobutamine is an effective pharmacologic stress agent commonly used in cardiac stress testing, but has several well documented adverse effects including serious arrhythmias and myocardial infarction. The most common dobutamine protocol is to infuse an increasing dose of 10 μg/kg followed by 20, 30, then 40 μg/kg until target HR is achieved. Atropine may be added after the 40 μg/kg ...

CONTEXT High school completion (HSC) is an established predictor of long-term morbidity and mortality. U.S. rates of HSC are substantially lower among students from low-income families and most racial/ethnic minority populations than students from high-income families and the non-Hispanic white population. This systematic review assesses the effectiveness of programs to increase HSC and the pot...