Background A challenge in quantifying the effect of screening mammography on breast-cancer mortality is to provide valid comparison groups. The use of historical control subjects does not take into account chronologic trends associated with advances in breast-cancer awareness and treatment. Methods The Norwegian breast-cancer screening program was started in 1996 and expanded geographically during the subsequent 9 years. ...
REVIEW ARTICLES Local anesthesia for the ophthalmic surgery. Select the best technique for your patient [ Abstract ] Mansoor Aqil ORIGINAL ARTICLES The effect of leptin on the osteoinductive activity of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 in nude mice [ Abstract ] Jun-Chang Xu, Gui-Hua Wu, Han-Lin ...
Online ISSN: 1365-2168 Print ISSN: 0007-1323 British Journal of Surgery Volume96, Issue11,2009. Early View (Articles Available Online in Advance of Print) Copyright © 2009 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Leading articles 1227-1228 Damage control in burn surgery R. S. Breederveld, R. W. Kreis Abstract Published Online: 21 Oct 2009 DOI 10.1002/bjs.6702 1229-1230 Varicose veins today J. L. O'Hare, J. J. ...
Patient Saf Surg. 2008;2:12 Authors: Yilmaz B, Colakoglu K, Gurunluoglu R ABSTRACT: We report a geriatric case with a full-thickness skin avulsion injury during extubation due to a tube securing tape used to fixate the endotracheal tube. The avulsed skin was sutured back to its original place. Based on this single geriatric patient, we recommend ...
Background: Qualitative synthesis has become more commonplace in recent years. Meta-ethnography is one of several methods for synthesising qualitative research and is being used increasingly within health care research. However, many aspects of the steps in the process remain ill-defined.DiscussionWe utilized the seven stages of the synthesis process to synthesise qualitative research on adherence to tuberculosis ...
Background: Assessing the risk of bias in individual studies in a systematic review can be done using individual components or by summarizing the study quality in an overall score. Methods: We examined the instructions to authors of the 50 Cochrane Review Groups that focus on clinical interventions for recommendations on methodological quality assessment of studies. Results: Forty-one of the review ...
Background: There is a growing trend towards the production of hospital report-cards in which hospitals with higher than acceptable mortality rates are identified. Several commentators have advocated for the use of Bayesian hierarchical models in provider profiling. Several researchers have shown that some degree of misclassification will result when hospital report cards are produced. ...