THE IMPORTANCE OF INTEGRATING CLINICAL RELEVANCE AND STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE IN THE ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY OF CARE--ILLUSTRATED USING THE SWEDISH STROKE REGISTER.

When profiling hospital performance, quality inicators are commonly evaluated through hospital-specific adjusted means with confidence intervals.When identifying deviations from a norm, large hospitals can have statistically significant results even for clinically irrelevant deviations while important deviations in small hospitals can remain undisc

Abstract Background HTLV-I infected patients often complain of urinary symptomatology.Epidemiological studies have suggested that these individuals have a higher prevalence and incidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) than seronegative controls.However, the diagnosis of UTI in these studies relied only on patient information and did not require c

Abstract Background Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are a source of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) that can be used to develop molecular markers for genetic studies.The availability of ESTs for Quercus robur and Quercus petraea provided a unique opportunity to develop microsatellite markers to accelerate research aimed at studying adaptation of thes

In our culture, consuming of alcohol drinks is generally tolerated.The alcohol drinks is easily available and even represent a particular pattern of behavior.Young populations are at risk for alcohol abuse while most of them are beginning to experiment with alcohol in early adolescence and early creates a habit of drinking.To crema piedi determine

ABSTRACTGram-negative marine bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an important aquatic pathogen and has been demonstrated to be the causative agent Wonderswan of acute hepatopancreatic necrotic disease (AHPND) in shrimp aquaculture.The AHPND-causing V.parahaemolyticus strains contain a pVA1 plasmid encoding the binary PirAVP and PirBVP toxins, are