Publications by authors named "F Koster"
Objectives: Bundled payments (BPs) are increasingly being adopted to enable the delivery of high-value care. For BPs to reach their goals, accounting for differences in patient risk profile (PRP) predictive of spending is crucial. However, insight is lacking into how this is done in practice.
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- Two surveys conducted on displaced workers from five manufacturing plants revealed that two years post-layoff, about 66% had found new jobs, while 20% remained unemployed and 10% had retired.
- After 11 years, overall unemployment among these workers dropped below 5%, suggesting more favorable outcomes compared to other European closures.
- However, older workers, particularly those in their late forties to early fifties, faced significant challenges in finding stable employment and often had to accept lower wages.
Purpose: There are different techniques for ultrasound-guided central venous catheter (CVC) insertion. When using the conventional syringe-on-needle technique, the syringe needs to be removed from the needle after venous puncture to pass the guidewire through the needle into the vein. When, alternatively, using the wire-in-needle technique, the needle is preloaded with the guidewire, and the guidewire-after venous puncture-is advanced into the vein under real-time ultrasound guidance.
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- * The test found HPV L1 high-risk antibodies in nearly all patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and cancer while only detecting them in a small percentage of healthy controls.
- * This promising, easy-to-use test could improve early detection of cervical cancer in low- and middle-income countries, where traditional screening methods may not be accessible.
Background/aim: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide. The potential for targeted therapy against the immune checkpoint programmed death 1 (PD-1)/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) and receptor tyrosine kinases was examined in cervical cancer patients and cell lines.
Materials And Methods: On tissue microarrays, PD-L1 was analyzed in 123 samples of patients with cervical cancer using immunohistochemistry.