Empirically based treatments

Allergic rhinitis is the most common allergic disease encountered in a primary care setting. Diagnosis is often made clinically based on response to empiric therapy. However, with long-term treatment failure and/or atypical disease presentation, a differential diagnosis should be considered.

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The quality of the treatment depends largely on the dose calculation in regimen planning. There are some dose calculation methods: (I) Body Surface Area method (BSA), (II) Empiric method, (III) Partition method and (IV) MIRD method.

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Colon cancer is a leading cause of worldwide cancer death. It has become clear that microRNAs (miRNAs) play a role in the progress of colon cancer and understanding the effect of miRNAs on tumorigenesis could lead to better prognosis and improved treatment. However, most studies have focused on studying differentially expressed miRNAs between tumor and non-tumor samples or between stages in tumor tissue.

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The impact of HIV infection on the evolution of acute community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is still controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate possible differences in the clinical presentation and in-hospital outcomes of patients with CAP with and without HIV infection in a specialised service in Yaounde.

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Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a major cause of morbidity, hospitalization, and mortality worldwide. Management of CAP for many patients requires rapid initiation of empirical antibiotic treatment, based on the spectrum of activity of available antimicrobial agents and evidence on local antibiotic resistance.

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Most international guidelines recommend empirical therapy for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) to be based on site of care. Some patients with severe CAP are managed in general wards because of limited intensive care unit (ICU) bed or because of unrecognition of the pneumonia severity.

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About 150 million people suffer from urinary tract infection each year. In majority of cases, treatment is initiated empirically based on the antimicrobial resistance pattern of the urinary pathogens prevalent in a particular setting. Emerging antibiotic resistance among Enterobacteriaceae has posed challenges in choosing empiric regimens. Therefore, the present study was designed to identify etiological agents of urinary tract infections, detect ESBL producing uropathogens and study their antibiotic resistance profile.

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Bacterial infections are most commonly encountered by clinicians in developing countries. Area-specific monitoring studies done to assess the type of pathogens and their antibiotic sensitivity patterns which help the clinician to opt for best empirical treatment. The hospital based cross sectional study is conducted on various samples collected using sterile techniques from 2474 clinically-suspected cases attending RDBP, Jaipuriya Hospital from Jan 2016 to Dec 2017 and tested bacteriologically using standard conventional procedures.

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Although research has shown exposure therapy to have earned its rank among empirically supported treatments (ESTs) for anxiety disorders, several US-based studies suggest it to be underused in clinical practice. Data on exposure use in Europe is mainly lacking, whereas its state of dissemination in countries such as the Netherlands has remained uncharted.

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Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an important nosocomial infection in mechanically ventilated patients at intensive care unit (ICU). The administration of accurate and timely initial empirical antibiotic therapy is essential to reduce the morbidity and mortality from Ventilator-associated pneumonia. Initial empiric antimicrobial therapy for VAP greatly depends on the type of causative pathogen and its resistance pattern. During the six months study period, 196 patients received mechanical ventilation.

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Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a well recognized clinical syndrome, accounting for 3–5% of all malignancies. It is characterized as a disease with an early dissemination of metastases without a primary detected site after extensive laboratory and clinical investigations. CUP is divided into the favorable and unfavorable groups based on histopathological and clinical manifestations. Adenocarcinoma of various differentiations is the commonest histopathological subtype. Favorable groups are treated with local or systemic treatment and some of them are enjoying long-term survival.

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Objectives of thesis: Study on phenol treatment in water by ozonation process combined with catalysts. An empirical kinetic model and one quadratic regression equations were built based on experimental data for destroying phenol by heterogeneous catalytic ozonation process with response variables (initial pH, ozone concentration, catalyst concentration and reaction time). Application of phenol treatment in coking wastewater.

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This paper investigates the determinant factors affecting the demand for self-treatment. Specifically, the empirical results have shown a strong evidence to support our theoretical model. This analysis is based on a large nationwide sample of Vietnamese Household Living Standard Surveys conducted in 2006.

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part 2 book “handbook of personality disorders” has contents: an attachment perspective on callous and unemotional characteristics across development, empirically validated diagnostic and assessment methods, clinical assessment, clinical features of borderline personality disorder, clinical aspects of antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy,… and other contents.

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These guidelines use sustainable urban infrastructure as the entry point for building sustainable cities. Sustainable urban infrastructure can only be built if we reconsider our strategic view of urbanization – if we rethink the future of cities. A new strategy based on more effective urban planning, strengthened local institutions and governance processes as well as enhanced economic contribution of cities is needed. Only Infrastructure that is energy and eco-effi cient, that serves the economic development of cities and supports the betterment of all citizens can be sustainable...

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This paper considers the problem of policy evaluation in a modern society with heterogeneous agents and diverse groups with conflicting interests. Several different approaches to the policy evaluation problem are compared including the approach adopted in modern welfare economics, the classical representative agent approach adopted in macroecononomics and the microeconomic treatment effect approach. A new approach to the policyevaluationproblemis developed and applied that combines and extends the best features of these earlier approaches.

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The policy influencers we investigated included representatives from the two key subgroups of individuals active in the field of public health and in the field of the environment. Contrary to the previous subgroup, members of these subgroups are not direct political advisors to government policy makers or members of such individuals' close political entourage. However, they are members of European, national, regional or municipal government bodies who consult with, advise or otherwise influence government policy makers or members of their political entourage.

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Many populations are composed of a mixture of individuals that reproduce at different times, and these times are often heritable. Under these conditions, gene flow should be limited between early and late reproducers, even within populations having a unimodal temporal distribution of reproductive activity. This temporal restriction on gene flow might be called ‘isolation by time’ (IBT) to acknowledge its analogy with isolation by distance (IBD). IBD and IBT are not exactly equivalent, however, owing to differences between dispersal in space and dispersal in time.

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In 1993 I was at SFI directing the economics program, and working on a small scale agent-based financial market of my own. My interest was directed at many of the empirical issues I was dealing with. Most of which were related to understanding the joint dynamics of prices and trading volume. In absence of some kind of theoretical framework these time series exercises were getting increasingly difficult. At this time I was added to the team, and along with Arthur and Palmer we began some extensive modifications to the SFI market.

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The natural question is whether these heterogeneous expectations co-evolve into homogeneous rational-expectations beliefs, upholding the efficient-market theory, or whether richer individual and collective behavior emerges, upholding the traders’ viewpoint and explaining the empirical market phenomena mentioned above. We answer this not analytically—our model with its fully heterogeneous expectations it is too complicated to admit of analytical solutions—but computationally.

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