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The Survival of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign

Medical Clinics of North America, 2022
Even well-intentioned policies have great potential to cause harm. This statement is vividly illustrated by the influential, yet controversial, Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines and subsequent CMS benchmarks. Despite low-quality evidence, tendentious industry ties, and rebuke from the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), these benchmarks ...
Rory, Spiegel, Max, Hockstein, Jessica, Waters, Munish, Goyal   +3 more
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Human breast cancer: correlation of relapse and survival with amplification of the HER-2/neu oncogene.

Science, 1987
The HER-2/neu oncogene is a member of the erbB-like oncogene family, and is related to, but distinct from, the epidermal growth factor receptor. This gene has been shown to be amplified in human breast cancer cell lines. In the current study, alterations
D. Slamon, G. Clark, S. Wong, W. Levin, A. Ullrich, W. McGuire   +5 more
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Survival Is Not Enough

Journal of Renal Nutrition, 2012
Survival is not enough is a yearly international event started in 2007 in Naples, Italy, in the week of the World Kidney Day to discuss the needs of renal patients and the quality of life of a category of patients living a machine-dependent life. Renal patients and their associations, philosophers, economists, nephrologists, and health care managers ...
De Santo NG, PERNA, Alessandra, El Matri A, De Santo RM, Cirillo M.   +4 more
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Modeling Survival and Testing Biological Hypotheses Using Marked Animals: A Unified Approach with Case Studies

, 1992
The understanding of the dynamics of animal populations and of related ecological and evolutionary issues frequently depends on a direct analysis of life history parameters.
J. Lebreton, K. Burnham, J. Clobert, David R. Anderson   +3 more
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The Logic of Political Survival

, 2003
The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure?
B. B. D. Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, J. D. Morrow   +3 more
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The Survival of the Survival Lottery

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1996
ABSTRACT In his paper ‘The Survival Lottery’John Harris suggested that there could be situations where the rational thing to do would be to kill a healthy person and harvest his organs for transplantation, thereby saving several lives at the cost of one.
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Poverty and Survival [PDF]

Journal of Development Studies, 2010
A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is more clearly relevant.
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To Survive or Not To Survive

Library Review, 1968
IN ANY TYPE OF LITERATURE it is easier in retrospect to pick out the notable writers of a period from the mass of lesser writers. With any type of current literature it is almost impossible to assess what will still be read or valued by later generations.
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A model to predict survival in patients with end‐stage liver disease

Hepatology, 2001
A recent mandate emphasizes severity of liver disease to determine priorities in allocating organs for liver transplantation and necessitates a disease severity index based on generalizable, verifiable, and easily obtained variables. The aim of the study
P. Kamath, R. Wiesner, M. Malinchoc, W. Kremers, T. Therneau, Catherine L. Kosberg, G. D’Amico, E. Dickson, W. R. Kim   +8 more
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Duration of hypotension before initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is the critical determinant of survival in human septic shock*

Critical Care Medicine, 2006
Objective:To determine the prevalence and impact on mortality of delays in initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy from initial onset of recurrent/persistent hypotension of septic shock.
Anand Kumar, D. Roberts, K. Wood, B. Light, J. Parrillo, S. Sharma, R. Suppes, D. Feinstein, S. Zanotti, Leo Taiberg, David P. Gurka, Aseem Kumar, M. Cheang   +12 more
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