BACKGROUND: Long-term opioid use has negative health care consequences. Patients who undergo surgery are at risk for prolonged opioid use after surgery (POUS). While risk factors have been previously identified, no methods currently exist to determin...
Clinical orthopaedics and related research
Jul 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: Machine-learning methods such as the Bayesian belief network, random forest, gradient boosting machine, and decision trees have been used to develop decision-support tools in other clinical settings. Opioid abuse is a problem among civili...
CONTEXT: Tsothel, a traditional Tibetan medicine, is regarded as 'the king of essences'. Nevertheless, tsothel has aroused serious concern regarding its biosafety because its main component is HgS. Unfortunately, toxicological studies on tsothel are ...
BACKGROUND/AIM: Treating animals repeatedly with intermittent and increasing morphine doses has been suggested to allow some withdrawal during each dosing interval, which causes repeated stress. The present study aimed to test this hypothesis and ass...
The designing of H∞ fuzzy controller for HIV/AIDS infected dynamic system has been considered in this paper. With TS fuzzy model and LMIs approach, the proposed controller is obtained for such a system. A set of sufficient conditions of the H∞ contro...
Despite recent advances in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, especially introduction of combined therapy with pegylated interferons with ribavirin, significant number of patients fails to achieve sustained virologic response. Such patients may be...
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