Patient Perception of Physician Attire in a Military Ophthalmology Clinic.

Introduction The purpose of this study is to investigate patient preferences of physician attire in an outpatient military ophthalmology clinic to determine how these preferences affect patients' perceptions of physician competence and their overall clinical experience. Materials and methods This study is a prospective survey administered to patients at the ophthalmology clinic at Brooke Army Medical Center. USA.

Assessment of Factors Associated With Postoperative Pain After Photorefractive Keratectomy.

Purpose: To define the factors that affect patient's self-assessed postoperative pain after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK).

Methods: Patients who underwent PRK in 2016 were evaluated. Anonymized data collected included patient gender, age, and season at the time of surgery, ablation depth, surgeon status (attending vs.

Real-time geotracking and cataloging of mass casualty incident markers in a search and rescue training simulation: Pilot study.

Objective: Search and rescue after mass casualty incidents relies on robust data infrastructure. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA's) Task Force 1 (TF1) trains its volunteers to locate and virtually tag scene incidents using a global positioning satellite (GPS) device programmed with markers for each incident (Iron Sights). The authors performed a pilot study comparing Iron Sights™ to a Wi-Fi-based real-time incident geolocation and virtual tagging dashboard (Panacea™) in creating a dynamic common operating picture.

Current and future disease progression of the chronic HCV population in the United States.

Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can lead to advanced liver disease (AdvLD), including cirrhosis, decompensated cirrhosis, and liver cancer. The aim of this study was to determine recent historical rates of HCV patient progression to AdvLD and to project AdvLD prevalence through 2015. We first determined total 2008 US chronic HCV prevalence from the National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Surveys.

Microarray evidence of glutaminyl cyclase gene expression in melanoma: implications for tumor antigen specific immunotherapy.

Background: In recent years encouraging progress has been made in developing vaccine treatments for cancer, particularly with melanoma. However, the overall rate of clinically significant results has remained low. The present research used microarray datasets from previous investigations to examine gene expression patterns in cancer cell lines with the goal of better understanding the tumor microenvironment.

An avian influenza vaccine for humans targeting the polymerase B2 protein inside the capsid instead of hemagglutinin or neuramidase on the virus surface.

Vaccines for avian influenza typically are aimed at hemagglutinin or neuramidase on the outside of the virus capsid. A major problem with such an approach is that the genes coding for these proteins have a very rapid mutation rate, forcing commercial producers to wait for mutations to occur before developing effective new versions of standard vaccines. However, a recent study has revealed that the 1918 flu virus, like the H5N1 avian flu virus, has an E627K mutation in its polymerase B2 component, which is located inside the virus capsid.

Evaluating the formulae for integrated lethality in ethylene oxide sterilization using six different endospore forming strains of bacteria, and comparisons of integrated lethality for ethylene oxide and steam systems.

Bacterial endospores from six different species of bacteria were exposed to a spectrum of ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilizing conditions. Temperature was varied from 40 to 60 degrees C and the ethylene oxide concentration was varied from 300 to 750 mg/L. Relative humidity was maintained at 60+/-10% RH.

Factors affecting tailing in ethylene oxide sterilization part 1: When tailing is an artifact... and scientific deficiencies in ISO 11135 and EN 550.

Current approaches for validation of EtO sterilization cycles identified in ISO 11135 and EN 550 are scientifically deficient and result in full cycle times that are too short. This review article identifies the scientific flaws promulgated in the standards that lead to overestimation of process lethality. The reasons for these deficiencies are design-of-experiment errors that either fail to mathematically account for lag factors or that treat dissimilar samples as a single statistical sample set.