Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Stroke
Background and Purpose— The purpose of this statement is to delineate basic expectations regarding primary palliative care competencies and skills to be considered, learned, and...
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Substantial Health And Economic Returns From Delayed Aging May Warrant A New Focus For Medical Research
Recent scientific advances suggest that slowing the aging process (senescence) is now a realistic goal. Yet most medical research remains focused on combating individual disease...
Measuring the health of nations: analysis of mortality amenable to health care
The 2000 World Health Report has been cited widely to support claims for the merits of otherwise different health systems. High levels of health attainment in well performing co...
Joint Modeling of Live-Recapture, Tag-Resight, and Tag-Recovery Data
We propose a model for a mark-recapture experiment with resightings obtained from marked animals any time between capture periods and throughout the geographic range of the anim...
Lifetime Risk and Years Lived Free of Total Cardiovascular Disease
Lifetime risk estimates for total CVD were high (>30%) for all individuals, even those with optimal risk factors in middle age. However, maintenance of optimal risk factor level...
Guide to Development of Practice Guidelines
A commonly accepted definition of clinical practice guideline is a systematically developed statement to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care...
Desert Rodent Community Structure: A Test of Four Mechanisms of Coexistence
Four mechanisms of coexistence are considered that may contribute to the diversity of desert granivorous rodent communities. In the first, bush/open microhabitat selection, coex...
1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D<sub>3</sub>and Human Bone-Derived Cells in Vitro: Effects on Alkaline Phosphatase, Type I Collagen and Proliferation*
1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2D3], but not 24,25-(OH)2D3 stimulates the alkaline phosphatase activity of cultured human bone cell populations. The stimulatory effect of th...
Tree Species Diversity in Commercially Logged Bornean Rainforest
The effects of commercial logging on tree diversity in tropical rainforest are largely unknown. In this study, selectively logged tropical rainforest in Indonesian Borneo is sho...