Background Inspection systems are used in health care to promote quality improvements, ie
to achieve changes in organisational structures or processes, healthcare provider …

Methods The University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) is a tertiary care center with 865
licensed beds (550 adult, 206 pediatric). UMHS has 90 beds in six adult ICUs and 65 beds …

Although competency-based medical education (CBME) has attracted renewed interest in
recent years among educators and policy-makers in the health care professions, there is little …

The epidemiology of drug-induced renal disorders is a complex topic. Drug-associated
nephrotoxicity accounts for 18 – 27% of all acute kidney injury cases in US hospitals. Medications …

BACKGROUND. The logistic regression model is being used with increasing frequency in
all areas of public health research. In the calendar year 1989, over 30% of the articles …

The old theory that frost heaving is due to change in volume of water frozen was based on
experiments with closed systems. Field observations and recent experiments indicate that soils…

This paper describes a laboratory investigation of problems connected with frost heaving.
The principles developed have applications in geology, plant physiology, and engineering. …

The question of when adolescence ends and young adulthood begins is considered.
Throughout, it is addressed in terms of the theory of broad and narrow socialization, which …

10-Hydroxy-Δ 2 -decenoic acid, the major component of the lipide fraction of royal jelly,
exhibits antibiotic activity against many bacteria and fungi. This fatty acid is less than one-fourth …

Background . Current antibiotic therapies for Clostridium difficile–associated diarrhea have
limitations, including progression to severe disease, recurrent C. difficile–associated diarrhea…