This proceedings volume contains the latest developments in particle physics in collider experiments. The contributions cover new results such as the production of quark-gluon plasma in the heavy-ion ...collider, the new techniques for precision measurement at low energies, and the status of neutrino physics at various laboratories including the new facilities that are at the planning stage.
A manifesto for men's health de Winter, Louise
Trends in urology & men's health,
January/February 2019, 2019-01-00, 20190101, Letnik:
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The Urology Foundation (TUF) has been supporting urological healthcare professionals and researchers for over 25 years. In this article the TUF Chief Executive describes some of the work undertaken ...by TUF and calls for support in raising greater awareness of urological disease.
This book contains pedagogical lectures on both theoretical and experimental particle physics, cosmology, and atomic trap physics. Numerous additional contributions provide up-to-date information on ...new experimental results from accelerators, underground laboratories, and nuclear astrophysics. This combination of pedagogical talks and topical short discussions presents a comprehensive amount of information and latest developments to researchers.
The Lake Louise Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in physics. The proceedings contain pedagogical and review lectures by invited experts and contributed presentations by ...participants.Contents: Physics at TESLA (G A Blair)Searches at HERA (N Delerue)Particle Production and Multiplicity in Heavy Ion Collisions at PHENIX (L Ewell)Two Photon Physics at LEP (D Haas)Higgs Searches with the DELPHI Detector (J Hansen)Noncummutative Field Theories and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (K Kaminsky)Electromagnetic Interactions in Strong Magnetic Fields (D Leahy)Recent Results from K2K (T Nakaya)Doubly Resonant Z Pair Production with DELPHI (J Rehn)Charmless Hadronic B Decays at BABAR (T Schietinger)ATLAS Physics Potential (J Sjolin)An Improved Measurement of the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Positive Muon (A Trofimov)and other papersReadership: High energy physicists.
The Lake Louise Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in physics. Pedagogical and review lectures are presented by invited experts. A topical workshop is held in conjunction with ...the Institute, with contributed presentations by participants.
A hotel on the outskirts of Oxford saw the gathering of 20 current and future leaders in urology, who met to discuss what it takes to not merely survive a career as a consultant urologist, but to ...succeed and thrive. Here the author provides a flavour of what the meeting covered.
The Lake Louise Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in high energy physics in an informal setting. Pedagogical and review lectures are presented by invited experts. A topical ...workshop is held in conjunction with the Institute, with presentations by participants.
To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of long acting progestogens compared with the combined oral contraceptive pill in preventing recurrence of endometriosis related pain.
The PRE-EMPT (preventing ...recurrence of endometriosis) pragmatic, parallel group, open label, randomised controlled trial.
34 UK hospitals.
405 women of reproductive age undergoing conservative surgery for endometriosis.
Participants were randomised in a 1:1 ratio using a secure internet facility to a long acting progestogen (depot medroxyprogesterone acetate or levonorgestrel releasing intrauterine system) or the combined oral contraceptive pill.
The primary outcome was pain measured three years after randomisation using the pain domain of the Endometriosis Health Profile 30 (EHP-30) questionnaire. Secondary outcomes (evaluated at six months, one, two, and three years) included the four core and six modular domains of the EHP-30, and treatment failure (further therapeutic surgery or second line medical treatment).
405 women were randomised to receive a long acting progestogen (n=205) or combined oral contraceptive pill (n=200). At three years, there was no difference in pain scores between the groups (adjusted mean difference -0.8, 95% confidence interval -5.7 to 4.2, P=0.76), which had improved by around 40% in both groups compared with preoperative values (an average of 24 and 23 points for long acting progestogen and combined oral contraceptive pill groups, respectively). Most of the other domains of the EHP-30 also showed improvement at all time points compared with preoperative scores, without evidence of any differences between groups. Women randomised to a long acting progestogen underwent fewer surgical procedures or second line treatments compared with those randomised to the combined oral contraceptive pill group (73
97; hazard ratio 0.67, 95% confidence interval 0.44 to 1.00).
Postoperative prescription of a long acting progestogen or the combined oral contraceptive pill results in similar levels of improvement in endometriosis related pain at three years, with both groups showing around a 40% improvement compared with preoperative levels. While women can be reassured that both options are effective, the reduced risk of repeat surgery for endometriosis and hysterectomy might make long acting reversible progestogens preferable for some.
ISRCTN registry ISRCTN97865475.
The concept of quality has moved to the top of the international healthcare agenda in the past 30 years. This has been driven by a growing awareness of the scale of variation in patient outcomes, ...influenced by both the paucity of and consistency in implementation of evidence-based actions or interventions performed during the delivery of patient care. Concurrently there has been growing interest on the part of healthcare professionals to use a wider range of knowledge and available techniques, from outside of medicine, to continuously improve standards of safe and effective patient care. This is the first in a series of three articles introducing Quality Improvement (QI) methodology and supporting concepts to multidisciplinary teams working in Urology departments in the United Kingdom. We start, in this article, by providing an overview of key QI principles and their industrial roots; we position QI in the context of other approaches to improvement, such as audit, and we outline the key organisations and infrastructure supporting QI work on the ground.
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