Background. Campath 1H is a depleting, humanized anti-CD52 monoclonal antibody that
has now been used in 31 renal allograft recipients. The results have been very encouraging …

Despite recent advances in oncologic therapy, an important proportion of patients with
primary cancer will develop distant metastasis. The standard therapy for metastatic cancer is …

Although there are powerful incentives for creating alarm management programmes to
reduce ‘alarm fatigue’, they do not provide guidance on how to reduce the likelihood that …

Background Sarcopenia is characterized by loss of skeletal muscle and strength, associated
with aging, poor nutrition, sedentary lifestyle, and long-term illness. We sought to evaluate …

Background— There is a strong link between urbanization and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Although a multitude of mechanisms have been proposed, there are no studies evaluating the …

BACKGROUND: Retained surgical items (RSI) continue to occur. Large RSI studies are few
due to low RSI frequency in single institutions and the medicolegal implications. …

To investigate the opportunity for hospitals to achieve better care at lower cost, we examine
two key process quality measures, conformance quality and experiential quality, and two …

BACKGROUND: Over the past 3 decades, the field of lung transplantation has been refined.
However, many barriers exist that limit long-term success. The purpose of this study was to …

Background Retained surgical items (RSI) are designated as completely preventable “never
events”. Despite numerous case reports, clinical series, and expert opinions few studies …

Objective To assess the effectiveness of intraoperative lymph node (LN) staging by comparing
upstaging between robotic-assisted surgery, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)…