Address by Governor James F. Byrnes at rally of South Carolinians for Eisenhower in Charleston, S.C.

Governor James F. Byrnes made a campaign speech at the rally of South Carolinians for Eisenhower, announcing his support of Dwight Eisenhower for president

Address of Governor James F. Byrnes to the South Carolina Education Association in Columbia, S.C.

Governor James F. Byrnes made a speech to the South Carolina Education Association about changes in the state educational system such as closing schools, increased busing, and bond allocations of $94 million for school building construction. The governor also references the Briggs v. Elliott school segregation case and discusses the impact of desegregation in South Carolina schools

Address of the Honorable James F. Byrnes, governor of South Carolina, to the North Carolina Citizens Association, Raleigh, N.C.

Governor James F. Byrnes gave a speech to the North Carolina Citizens Association, a coalition of North Carolina businessmen who worked together to establish and advocate legislation that was conducive to business

The development and validation of a scoring tool to predict the operative duration of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Background: The ability to accurately predict operative duration has the potential to optimise theatre efficiency and utilisation, thus reducing costs and increasing staff and patient satisfaction. With laparoscopic cholecystectomy being one of the most commonly performed procedures worldwide, a tool to predict operative duration could be extremely beneficial to healthcare organisations. Methods: Data collected from the CholeS study on patients undergoing cholecystectomy in UK and Irish hospitals between 04/2014 and 05/2014 were used to study operative duration. A multivariable binary logistic regression model was produced in order to identify significant independent predictors of long (> 90 min) operations. The resulting model was converted to a risk score, which was subsequently validated on second cohort of patients using ROC curves. Results: After exclusions, data were available for 7227 patients in the derivation (CholeS) cohort. The median operative duration was 60 min (interquartile range 45–85), with 17.7% of operations lasting longer than 90 min. Ten factors were found to be significant independent predictors of operative durations > 90 min, including ASA, age, previous surgical admissions, BMI, gallbladder wall thickness and CBD diameter. A risk score was then produced from these factors, and applied to a cohort of 2405 patients from a tertiary centre for external validation. This returned an area under the ROC curve of 0.708 (SE = 0.013, p  90 min increasing more than eightfold from 5.1 to 41.8% in the extremes of the score. Conclusion: The scoring tool produced in this study was found to be significantly predictive of long operative durations on validation in an external cohort. As such, the tool may have the potential to enable organisations to better organise theatre lists and deliver greater efficiencies in care

State of the state address

Transcript of annual speech given by Governor James F. Byrnes to both houses of the state legislature in joint opening session to report on the condition of the state of South Carolina

State of the state address

Transcript of annual speech given by Governor James F. Byrnes to both houses of the state legislature in joint opening session to report on the condition of the state of South Carolina