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Open AccessCorrection to: Primary care usage at the end of life: a retrospective cohort study of cancer patients using linked primary and hospital care data
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Health service use is most intensive in the final year of a person’s life, with 80% of this expenditure occurring in hospital. Close involvement of primary care services has been promoted to enhance quality en...
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The lower limb is a common site for melanoma in women, but the reason for this is not fully understood. To investigate this phenomenon in more detail, we assessed the specific subsites of primary melanoma occu...
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Cytoreductive nephrectomy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: outcome of patients treated with a multidisciplinary, algorithm-driven approach
Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) represents a significant and rising burden of disease, with rapidly evolving treatment modalities. The role of cytoreductive nephrectomy (CN) is controversial in this set...
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Open AccessThe Development, Application and Analysis of an Enhanced Recovery Programme for Major Oesophagogastric Resection
Enhanced recovery programmes improve outcomes in surgery, but their implementation after upper gastrointestinal resection has been limited. The aim of this study was to compare short-term outcomes for patients...
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This article illustrates several issues associated with using different energy sources and charge materials in large EAFs. It includes industrial results obtained by using Air Liquide (ACI) technology in these...
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Industrial gases are used in blast-furnace operation to increase the productivity of the furnaces, optimize their gasdynamic and thermal operating conditions, and alleviate adverse environmental effects. The f...
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Structural properties of flexible nematic diblock copolymers in the lamellar phase are investigated using a mean-field model. We address two complementary questions on the mechanics of the system: 1) How does ...
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The hydrodynamics of isothermal solids is studied via a nonlinear dynamic extension of classical density functional theory. Results are obtained for the diffusion coefficient, sound attenuation, sound speed, c...
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We conducted a retrospective study to describe the magnitude of compromise in reproductive function and investigate pregnancy outcomes in 619 women and partners of men treated with autologous (n=241) or allogenei...
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Among an infinite number of possible folds, nature has chosen only about 1000 distinct folds to form protein structures. Theoretical studies suggest that selected folds are intrinsically more designable than ...
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We present a geometrical version of Herbert’s theorem determining the homology classes represented by the multiple point manifolds of a self-transverse immersion. Herbert’s theorem and generalizations can read...
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Chromosome 6 is a metacentric chromosome that constitutes about 6% of the human genome. The finished sequence comprises 166,880,988 base pairs, representing the largest chromosome sequenced so far. The entire ...
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A QOL instrument was developed to measure the specific concerns of long term cancer survivors. The QOL-CS is based on previous versions of the QOL instrument developed by researchers at the City of Hope Nation...
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Fluctuations in a Kinetic Ising Model
We have used the damage algorithm and Monte Carlo dynamics to study the time dependence of fluctuations in the two-dimensional spin-flip kinetic Ising model, both at equilibrium and for systems undergoing a te...
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This study was designed to assess the reliability and validity of a Quality of Life (QOL) instrument on a sample of 179 allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) survivors. The QOL-BMT tool was developed specifi...
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Eight healthy male volunteers exercised for two 30-min sessions starting 3 h apart on an electronically braked cycle ergometer at a work load (mean 155.9 W, SD 33.4 W) which required an oxygen consumption that...
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An approximate late time solution to the dynamics of phase separation for a nonconserved ordering order parameter (φ) coupled to a stable conserved field (c) is presented. In the Halperin Hohenberg(1) classificat...
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Proton spallation is a relatively recent method for significant radioisotope production. A detailed discussion of the activation equation for charged-particle reactions is given, and measured values of spallat...
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Alcohol education: does it really affect drinking problems?
There has, over the past 20 years, been a growing recognition that alcohol problems are serious enough and extensive enough to merit greater attention than is currently being paid to them. The purpose of this ...
