A discordance, predominantly towards overtreatment, exists between patients’ expressed preferences for life-sustaining interventions and those documented at hospital admission. This quality improvement study sought to assess this discordance our institution. Secondary objectives were explore if internal medicine (IM) teams could identify patients who might benefit from further conversations the...

BACKGROUND In many countries in Asia, the HIV epidemic is in a concentrated phase, with high prevalence in certain risk groups, such as men who inject drugs. There is also a rapid increase of HIV among women. The latter might be due to high levels of sero-discordant couples and increasing transmission from male to female partners over time. METHODS All adult married patients initiating antire...

Evaluation of Receptor Conversion and HER2 Discordance between Primary Metastatic Breast Cancer Predictive factors

In today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, an effective supplier selection process is very important for the success of any business organization. Selection of the best supplier is always a difficult task for the purchasing manager. Suppliers have varied strengths and weaknesses which require careful assessment by the purchasing manager before selecting and ranking them. Any suppl...

ABSTRACT Observational astrophysics consists of making inferences about the Universe by comparing data and models. The credible intervals placed on model parameters are often as important maximum a posteriori probability values, indicate concordance or discordance between models with measurements from other data. Intermediate statistics (e.g. power spectrum) usually measured made fitting to the...

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the discordance of 5 mCi (185 MBq) I-131 whole body scan (WBS) and thyroglobulin (Tg) values at the ablation outcome control in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients who had thyroidectomy and then received radioiodine (RAI) ablation. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 36 DTC patients who had RAI treatment in our department between 1992-200...