normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: reforms in inpatient care are critical for the enhancement of the efficiency of health systems. it still remains the main costly sector of the health system, accounting for more than 60% of all expenditures. inappropriate and ineffective use of the hospital infrastructure is also a big issue. we aimed to analyze statistical data on healt...

1 Vienna U niversity of Te chnology, Atominstitut d . Ö sterreichischen U niversitäten, Sta dionalle 2, A-1020 Vienna , Austria 2 IT C -irst, C entro p er la Ric erc a S cientific a e T e cnologic a , via S ommarive 18, I-38050 Povo, Trento, Italy 3 Lud wig B oltzm ann Institute of O steology, H anusch H ospital of W G K K and A UVA Traum a C entre M eidling, 4th M e dic al D e p artm ent, H an...

Clinical observat ion on treatment of gas t ric cancer with Zhi jing Granules : a report of 148 cases Ya-Sheng ZHANG1 , Li-Fei ZHU2 , Xue-Song WENG1 (1 . Depar tment of T raditional Chinese Medicine , First People’s H ospital , Shanghai Jiao Tong U niversity , Shanghai 200080 , China; 2 . Depar tment of Oncology , First People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai 200080 , China )

D. Yamamoto, A. Tandoc, III, E. Mercado, F. Quicho, S. Lupisan, M. Obata-Saito, M. Okamoto, A. Suzuki, R. Tamaki, L. Sombrero, R. Olveda and H. Oshitani 1) Tohoku-RITM Collaborating Research Center for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Metro Manila, Philippines, 2) Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, 3) Research Institute for Tropical...

V a t a m f e a c a D H s o min Zoraï1 alem Abbes1 1 Laboratory of molecular and cellular ematology, asteur Institute of Tunis, unis El-Manar University, unisia [email protected]> 2 Laboratory of medical biology, ospital A.Mami. Ariana, unisia 3 Service B of pneumology, ospital A.Mami. Ariana, revealed a compound heterozygote, HbO-Arab/cd 39 ◦-thalassemia. This hemoglobinopathy was nev...

A brief analysis of English translation of the book title of Shanghan Zabing Lun Ling LIU ,Zhao XU ,Hui YU (1 .Guiyang Colleg e of T raditional Chinese Medicine ,Guiyang ,Guizhou P ro vince 550002 ,China ;2 .Departmen t of Anat omy , Guiyang College o f T raditional Chinese Medicine , Guiyang , Guizhou Province 550002 , China ; 3 . Depar tment of Nursing , Second Af filiated H ospital ,Guiyang ...

Joint S tatement of Establishing Chinese Clinical T rial Regist rat ion and Publishing System You-Ping LI , Tai-Xiang WU , Jing LI , Zi-Hong ZHONG , Wan-Nian JIA , on behalf of Joint Statement Working Group , Chinese Clinical Trial Registration and Publishing Collaboration (1 . Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Centre , Minist ry of H ealth of the People’s Republic of China , Chinese Cochrane Cen...

H c fi o the Editor: Data on hospital performance in door-to-balloon DTB) times for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial nfarction (STEMI) are now collected and reported by numerous rganizations, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ervices (CMS), The Joint Commission, and the American ollege of Cardiology (1–3). Despite proliferation of these efforts o report DTB time, its ...

In a community-based prospective study of black women, blood pressure (BP) before the onset of the first pregnancy was significantly higher in participants who were eventually diagnosed as having pre-eclampsia than those not so diagnosed. The diagnosis of "pre-eclampsia" appeared to be based entirely on BP; "hypertension associated with pregnancy" is probably a more accurate term. The BP of the...