Older people, medication usage and long-term care pharmacists: a retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To investigate the impact of the presence of a pharmacist on medication usage in long-term care facilities.

Methods: The study followed a retrospective cohort design, with a sample of patients aged ≥65 years admitted to three long-term care facilities over 30 months. Data on age, gender, type of stay, the presence or absence of a pharmacist and pharmacotherapeutic profile at admission and discharge were obtained for study patients.

Materials to Be Used in Future Magnetic Confinement Fusion Reactors: A Review.

This paper presents the roadmap of the main materials to be used for ITER and DEMO class reactors as well as an overview of the most relevant innovations that have been made in recent years. The main idea in the EUROfusion development program for the FW (first wall) is the use of low-activation materials. Thus far, several candidates have been proposed: RAFM and ODS steels, SiC/SiC ceramic composites and vanadium alloys.

Short- and long-term outcomes of percutaneous cholecystostomy in an Australian population.

Background: Percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) is a well-recognized management option for the treatment of acute cholecystitis (AC) in high-risk patients. Patient characteristics, efficacy and particularly the longer-term outcomes for patients having PC across the Hunter New England Local Health District were analysed.

Methods: A retrospective audit from January 2013 to September 2017 was undertaken.

Reset Controller Design Based on Error Minimization for a Lane Change Maneuver.

An intelligent vehicle must face a wide variety of situations ranging from safe and comfortable to more aggressive ones. Smooth maneuvers are adequately addressed by means of linear control, whereas more aggressive maneuvers are tackled by nonlinear techniques. Likewise, there exist intermediate scenarios where the required responses are smooth but constrained in some way (rise time, settling time, overshoot).

Long-term results of breast conservation and immediate volume replacement with myocutaneous latissimus dorsi flap.

Background: Published long-term outcomes of oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery are scarce and, specifically, aesthetic outcomes assessed with an objective method have not previously been published.

Methods: A cohort of 41 patients treated with a quadrantectomny and immediate reconstruction using a myocutaneous latissimus dorsi flap were analyzed and their aesthetic outcomes were evaluated objectively by BCCT.core software.