Primary care spirometry is a uniquely valuable tool in the evaluation of patients with respiratory
symptoms, allowing the general practitioner to diagnose or exclude chronic obstructive …

Background Sepsis remains one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality
worldwide. In approximately 30–50% of cases of suspected sepsis, no pathogen is isolated, …

Background: Broad-based electronic health information exchange (HIE), in which patients’
clinical data follow them between care delivery settings, is expected to produce large quality …

… A systematic literature search was performed searching 3 electronic databases: PubMed,
Cochrane and EMBASE. All 106 hospitals in the Netherlands were contacted, inquiring about …

… that the subject of ‘giving’ is obviously a huge one, invoking both methodological and ethical
questions that should include discussion on the politics of knowledge (see also Lammers …

To fight bone diseases characterized by poor bone quality like osteoporosis and osteoarthritis,
as well as in reconstructive surgery, there is a need for a new generation of implantable …

We analyzed data from pathologic investigations in the United States, collected by the USGS
National Wildlife Health Center between 1971 and 2005, into aquatic bird mortality events. …

Objective: To evaluate the contribution of amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole proprionic
acid (AMPA) glutamate receptors to the pathogenesis of parkinsonian signs and levodopa-…

Following the discovery of oil in Paleocene sandstones in the Foinaven and Schiehallion
fields in 1992 and 1993, exploration in the Faeroe–Shetland Basin has been very active. Most …

Background Data on patients with COVID-19 who have cancer are lacking. Here we characterise
the outcomes of a cohort of patients with cancer and COVID-19 and identify potential …