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In a 2016 Australian study (Singla et al. [20]), of 7718 elective and non-elective patients, it was shown that unadjusted and adjusted odds of early surgical mortality was higher on the weekend, compared to weekdays (unadjusted and adjusted OR = 1.30 (p<0.001) and 1.19 (p=0.026), respectively). When separated by day of week, there was a trend ...
JD.com started the e-book selling business online on 20 February 2012, and provided customers with more than 80,000 electronic books. JD.com also offered discounts to the buyers, this situation was the unfoldment of a new round of price war.
Reckitt has also implemented an environmental initiative called Carbon 20. [59] The initiative, which was announced in November 2007, aimed to cut the total carbon footprint of its products—from creation to disposal by 20% by 2020. As part of the initiative the company has reduced by 70% the amount of plastic in the packaging of its Vanish ...
Tizanidine, sold under the brand name Zanaflex among others, is an alpha-2 (α 2) adrenergic receptor agonist, [2] similar to clonidine, that is used to treat muscle spasticity due to spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and spastic cerebral palsy. [3]
In the United Kingdom, the National Health Service (NHS) began an ambitious pay for performance initiative in 2004, known as the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). [148] General practitioners agreed to increases in existing income according to performance with respect to 146 quality indicators covering clinical care for 10 chronic diseases ...
About 75% of women have at least one infection in their lifetime, [2] 40%–45% will have two or more episodes, [20] and approximately 20% of women get an infection yearly. [ 3 ] Research
The most prevalent types of pain are thought to be headaches (43%), dysesthetic limb pain (26%), back pain (20%), painful spasms (15%) such as the MS Hug, [102] painful Lhermitte's phenomenon (16%) and Trigeminal Neuralgia (3%). [97] These authors did not however find enough data to quantify the prevalence of painful optic neuritis.
[20] [21] [22] T-SPOT.TB, [23] a type of ELISpot Assay, [24] counts the number of activated T lymphocytes that secrete interferon γ. According to a 2007 study from Korea, a high prevalence country of LTBI, QuantiFERON-TB Gold and T-SPOT.TB have good sensitivity but reduced specificity for diagnosing active TB, due to their ability to detect ...