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Clinical Features and Short-term Outcomes of 102 Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China
Abstract Background In December 2019, a series of pneumonia cases of unknown cause emerged in Wuhan, Hubei, China. In this study, we investigate the clinical and laboratory feat...
Gender-Related Differences in Acute Aortic Dissection
Background— Few data exist on gender-related differences in clinical presentation, diagnostic findings, management, and outcomes in acute aortic dissection (AAD). Methods and Re...
Using a Probabilistic Frontier Production Function to Measure Technical Efficiency
This article uses linear programming techniques to "estimate" a frontier Cobb-Douglas production function for U.S. agriculture from 1960 to 1967, using the "average farm" in eac...
Snoring as a risk factor for ischaemic heart disease and stroke in men.
The association of snoring with ischaemic heart disease and stroke was studied prospectively in 4388 men aged 40-69. The men were asked, in a questionnaire sent to them, whether...
Sociometric Location and Innovativeness: Reformulation and Extension of the Diffusion Model
1968a class, parental encouragement and educational aspirations. American Journal of Sociology 73:559-572. 1968b Parents' education and children's educational aspirations and a...
Clinical Presentation and Outcome in a Contemporary Cohort of Patients With Acute Myocarditis
Background: There is controversy about the outcome of patients with acute myocarditis (AM), and data are lacking on how patients admitted with suspected AM are managed. We repor...
Before–after study of a standardized hospital order set for the management of septic shock*
Our study found that the implementation of a standardized order set for the management of septic shock in the emergency department was associated with statistically more rigorou...
Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and population history of the grey wolf<i>Canis lupus</i>
Abstract The grey wolf ( Canis lupus ) and coyote ( C. latrans ) are highly mobile carnivores that disperse over great distances in search of territories and mates. Previous gen...
Living and dying with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: multi-perspective longitudinal qualitative study
Our findings challenge current assumptions underpinning provision of end of life care for people with COPD. The policy focus on identifying a time point for transition to pallia...