We excluded 79 biopsies that did not have corresponding diagnostic mammograms, leaving 1,475 biopsies eligible for study, performed on 1,384 women.
After the amendment to the Hospice Palliative Care Act on January 9, 2013, which legalized the procedure of CE in Taiwan, the KTGH HPC team established its own protocol for performing CE for eligible applications from outside the hospice while conformed to the requirements of the law.
We found an average HHW patient ratio of 0.2 per 1,000 patients for doctors (for performing all ART initiations), and 1.2 per 1,000 patients for nurses and 2.1 per 1,000 patients for counselors (for performing initiations of eligible people and maintaining them on treatment).
In the operating theater, patients considered at risk of developing complications are not eligible for students to perform the procedure upon, such as small children, patients with ASA physical status IVE, patients with coagulopathy and those with poor anatomic landmarks.
A search was performed using Medline (PubMed) and Google Scholar search for all eligible studies performed between January 1970 and May 2011.
identified articles eligible for further review by performing an initial screen of identified abstracts and titles.
We identified articles eligible for further review by performing an initial screen of titles and abstracts, followed by a full-text review.
Two trained investigators (YF and JG) identified articles eligible for further review by performing a stepwise screening of titles or abstracts, followed by a full-text review based on common inclusion criterion.
They are eligible to perform internal as well as external investigation activities for the organization.
Computer searches for eligible studies were performed in April 2014 using PubMed, Cochrane Library, and EMBASE, with the following combination of key words: «cirrhosis» OR «cirrhotic» AND «intensive care» OR «ICU» OR «critically ill» in the title AND «prognosis» OR «survival» OR «outcome» OR «mortality» in the title or abstract, with a publication date ranging from January 2004 to March 2014.
