A retrospective observational study of labour ward work Intensity: The challenge of maternity staffing.

Background: The UK and Ireland are facing significant challenges in the recruitment and retention of midwifery staff. Deficiencies in staffing, training and leadership have been cited as contributory factors to substandard care in both regional and global independent maternity safety reports. Locally, workforce planning is critical to maintaining 'one to one' care for all women in labor and to meet the peaks of daily birthing suite activity.

A redescription of Lithornis vulturinus (Aves, Palaeognathae) from the Early Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark.

The extinct Lithornithidae include several genera and species of flying palaeognathous birds of controversial affinities known from the Early Paleogene of North America and Europe. An almost complete, articulated skeleton from the Early Eocene marine deposits of the Fur Formation (Denmark) was recently assigned to Lithornis vulturinus Owen, 1840. This study provides a detailed redescription and comparison of this three-dimensionally preserved specimen (MGUH 26770), which is one of the best preserved representatives of the Lithornithidae yet known.

[The User Survey on the Revision of the Classification of Therapeutic Procedures].

Introduction: An extensive user survey was conducted in the context of updating the Classification of Therapeutic Procedures (KTL 2015). This paper reflects the results of the user survey and raises critical discussion points.

Methods: The user survey was sent to all rehabilitation centers contracted by the German pension insurance as well as professional associations.

Response to Comment on "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds".

Mitchell et al. argue that divergence-time estimates for our avian phylogeny were too young because of an "inappropriate" maximum age constraint for the most recent common ancestor of modern birds and that, as a result, most modern bird orders diverged before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event 66 million years ago instead of after. However, their interpretations of the fossil record and timetrees are incorrect.

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds.

To better determine the history of modern birds, we performed a genome-scale phylogenetic analysis of 48 species representing all orders of Neoaves using phylogenomic methods created to handle genome-scale data. We recovered a highly resolved tree that confirms previously controversial sister or close relationships. We identified the first divergence in Neoaves, two groups we named Passerea and Columbea, representing independent lineages of diverse and convergently evolved land and water bird species.

[Cardiac rehabilitation in Germany: a successful model with promising prospects].

Over the past 20 years the German Pension Insurance has rehabilitated nearly 800,000 patients with coronary heart disease. In particular, phase-II rehabilitation has been established as an integral part of cardiac patient care. However, the decreasing number of participants in phase-III must be seen critically.

[Quality assurance of rehabilitation by the German pension insurance: an overview].

The German pension insurance has in recent years developed a comprehensive programme for quality assurance in rehabilitation, and has implemented the programme into routine practice. Different aspects of rehabilitation are evaluated with differentiated instruments. Issues dealt with inter alia include the quality of rehabilitative care in a narrower sense, the structure and organisation of the rehabilitation centres, as well as quality from the patients' perspective.

Rapid image recognition of body parts scanned in computed tomography datasets.

Aim: Automatic CT dataset classification is important to efficiently create reliable database annotations, especially when large collections of scans must be analyzed.

Method: An automated segmentation and labeling algorithm was developed based on a fast patient segmentation and extraction of statistical density class features from the CT data. The method also delivers classifications of image noise level and patient size.

Bird evolution in the Eocene: climate change in Europe and a Danish fossil fauna.

The pattern of the evolutionary radiation of modern birds (Neornithes) has been debated for more than 10 years. However, the early fossil record of birds from the Paleogene, in particular, the Lower Eocene, has only recently begun to be used in a phylogenetic context to address the dynamics of this major vertebrate radiation. The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-P) extinction event dominates our understanding of early modern bird evolution, but climate change throughout the Eocene is known to have also played a major role.