Background Qualitative descriptive designs are common in nursing and healthcare research
due to their inherent simplicity, flexibility and utility in diverse healthcare contexts. However, …

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been using a cost-effectiveness
threshold range between £20 000 and £30 000 for over 7 years. What the cost-…

Although it has been known for 25 years that some Paleozoic sedimentary rock units in Europe
and North America were remagnetized during Pennsylvanian or Permian time, it is only …

Background Dual-antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and a thienopyridine is a cornerstone of
treatment to prevent thrombotic complications of acute coronary syndromes and percutaneous …

Background Lipid-lowering therapy with statins reduces the risk of cardiovascular events,
but the optimal level of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is unclear. Methods We …

Background A substantial proportion of patients receiving fibrinolytic therapy for myocardial
infarction with ST-segment elevation have inadequate reperfusion or reocclusion of the …

COVID-19, which is caused by SARS-CoV-2, can result in acute respiratory distress syndrome
and multiple organ failure 1 , 2 , 3 – 4 , but little is known about its pathophysiology. Here …

Background Although the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow grade is a valuable
and widely used qualitative measure in angiographic trials, it is limited by its subjective …

… C and then mailed on dry ice to the Hematology Core Laboratory, where they were stored at
-70C… which they were refrozen and stored at -70C until their shipment in 1995 to the Cardiac …

… C statistics were 0.65 for the unfractionated heparin group and 0.61 for the enoxaparin
group in TIMI 11B; and 0.65 for the unfractionated heparin group and 0.59 for the enoxaparin …