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Generalization of Some Inequalities for the Ratio of Gamma Functions
access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We present some monotonic functions and some generalized inequalities involving the ratios of analogues of the Gamma function. Mathematics Subject Classification: 33B15, 26A4
Global wealth disparities drive adherence to COVID-safe pathways in head and neck cancer surgery
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The Politics of Governing Oil Effectively: A Comparative Study of Two New Oil-Rich States in Africa
European consensus table on the use of botulinum toxin type A in adult spasticity.
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80790.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)A group of clinicians from across Europe experienced in the use of botulinum toxin type A for the treatment of spasticity following acquired brain injury gathered to develop a consensus statement on best practice in managing adults with spasticity. This consensus table summarizes the current published data, which was collated following extensive literature searches, their assessment for level of evidence and discussion among the whole group. Published information is supplemented by expert opinion based on clinical experience from 16 European countries, involving 28 clinicians, who treat an average of approximately 200 patients annually, representing many thousand spasticity treatments with botulinum toxin per year
Moving with the movement: Collaboratively building a participatory action research study of social movement learning in Ada, Ghana
Co-opting Good Governance Reform: The Rise of a Not-so-Reformist Leader in Kebumen, Central Java
Who brought down the dictator? A critical reassessment of so-called âPeople powerâ revolutions in the Philippines and Indonesia
The influence of written information during the consenting process on patientsâ recall of operative risks. A prospective randomised study
In a recent article, Leigh (J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 88-B:16â18, 2006) notes that patients do not lay down memory when being counselled as to the risks involved in prospective surgery. In our article we focused on the patientsâ recall of risk factors involved in elective spinal surgery. We assessed the influence of written information provided to the patients during the consenting process on their recall of operative risks. The study was a prospective randomised study. All patients having elective spinal surgery were included in our study from February 2006 to November 2006 as a consecutive series. Patients were randomised into two groups, one of which received routine consent with verbal explanations (group 1), the other received the same information supplemented by a written sheet explaining the risks of the surgery (group 2). Two weeks later we assessed patientsâ recall of the risk involved in the surgery with a questionnaire and compared both groups with a Student t-test. Fifty-three patients (twenty in group 1 and twenty three in group 2) were involved. We noted a significant difference between the two groups in terms of mean number of risks recalled and number of patients recalling each risk (pâ<â0.001 and pâ<â0.005, respectively). The addition of a written sheet given to patients during the consenting process makes a significant difference in terms of their recall of the surgical risks in elective lumbar spine surgery. We advocate the routine use of written booklets during the consenting process