BACKGROUND The structure of long-term care (LTC) for old people has changed: care has been shifted from institutions to the community, and death is being postponed to increasingly old age. The aim of the study was to analyze how the use and costs of LTC in the last two years of life among old people changed between 2002 and 2013. METHODS Data were derived from national registers. The study po...

We propose a novel generative model for classification called latent tree classifier (LTC). An LTC represents each class-conditional distribution of attributes using a latent tree model, and uses Bayes rule to make prediction. Latent tree models can capture complex relationship among attributes. Therefore, LTC can approximate the true distribution behind data well and thus achieve good classifi...

We have previously shown that when adult marrow CD34+/HLA-DR- cells are cultured for 5 or 8 weeks in the presence of stroma-conditioned media with interleukin-3 (IL-3) and macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP-1 alpha), long-term culture-initiating cells (LTC-IC) are maintained but not expanded. However, if the same cultures are evaluated after 2 weeks, we show that LTC-IC expand 5.5- +/...

BACKGROUND Older adults living in long term care (LTC) settings are vulnerable to fall-related injuries. There is a need to develop and implement evidence-based approaches to address fall injury prevention in LTC. Knowledge translation (KT) interventions to support the uptake of evidence-based approaches to fall injury prevention in LTC need to be responsive to the learning needs of LTC staff a...

AIM A questionnaire concerning informed recipient's consent for "extended criteria liver donors"(ECD), after approval of the Institutional Review Board(IRB), was sent in different times by e-mail to members of 2 scientific societies, ELPAT (Ethical,Legal and Psychologic Aspects of Organ Transplantation) and ELITA (European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association)-ELTR(European Liver Transpla...

There is evidence of benefits from the national health insurance systems in EU Member States case better-adjustment housing units to functional capacities older adults. Still, systematic approach evaluating social value (SV) investments specialised and other types built environment not yet developed. This paper aims show how these can be quantified if we evaluate actuarial present (APV) reducin...

A long-term care hospital (LTCH) is a specialized facility for patients with serious health problems who require continuous and intensive care but not comprehensive diagnostic methods. LTCHs provide prolonged complex care and wound care in the period following the acute stage of disease. When intensive care unit (ICU) stay is prolonged in the United States of America, the patients may be transf...

Leukotriene C(4) is a potent inflammatory mediator formed from arachidonic acid and glutathione. 5-Lipoxygenase (5-LO), 5-lipoxygenase activating protein (FLAP) and leukotriene C(4) synthase (LTC(4)S) participate in its biosynthesis. We report evidence that LTC(4)S interacts in vitro with both FLAP and 5-LO and that these interactions involve distinct parts of LTC(4)S. FLAP bound to the N-termi...

We build a life-cycle model of household consumption and saving decisions, where long term care (LTC) expenditures are endogenous. We use an LTC-state dependent utility function where regular consumption and LTC are valued differently. The model includes both married and single households, thus capturing important family dynamics that are important for precautionary savings and LTC decisions. M...