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Cost-effectiveness of a transitional pharmaceutical care program for patients discharged from the hospital
Background To improve continuity of care at hospital admission and discharge and to decrease medication errors pharmaceutical care programs are developed. This study aims to determine the cost-effectiveness of the COACH program in comparison with usual care from a societal perspective. Methods A controlled clinical trial was performed at the Internal Medicine department of a general teaching hospital. All admitted patients using at least one prescription drug were included. The COACH program consisted of medication reconciliation, patient counselling at discharge, and communication to healthcar
The important role of biochemical and functional studies in the diagnostics of peroxisomal disorders
Architecture and performance of the KM3NeT front-end firmware
The KM3NeT infrastructure consists of two deep-sea neutrino telescopes being
deployed in the Mediterranean Sea. The telescopes will detect extraterrestrial and atmospheric
neutrinos by means of the incident photons induced by the passage of relativistic charged particles
through the seawater as a consequence of a neutrino interaction. The telescopes are configured
in a three-dimensional grid of digital optical modules, each hosting 31 photomultipliers.
The photomultiplier signals produced by the incident Cherenkov photons are converted into
digital information consisting of the integrated pulse duration and the time at which it surpasses
a chosen threshold. The digitization is done by means of time to digital converters (TDCs)
embedded in the field programmable gate array of the central logic board. Subsequently, a state
machine formats the acquired data for its transmission to shore. We present the architecture and
performance of the front-end firmware consisting of the TDCs and the state machine
KM3NeT front-end and readout electronics system: hardware, firmware, and software
he KM3NeT research infrastructure being built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea will host water-Cherenkov telescopes for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The neutrino telescopes will consist of large volume three-dimensional grids of optical modules to detect the Cherenkov light from charged particles produced by neutrino-induced interactions. Each optical module houses 31 3-in. photomultiplier tubes, instrumentation for calibration of the photomultiplier signal and positioning of the optical module, and all associated electronics boards. By design, the total electrical power consumption of an optical module has been capped at seven Watts. We present an overview of the front-end and readout electronics system inside the optical module, which has been designed for a 1-ns synchronization between the clocks of all optical modules in the grid during a life time of at least 20 years
KM3NeT front-end and readout electronics system: hardware, firmware, and software
The KM3NeT research infrastructure being built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea will host water-Cherenkov telescopes for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The neutrino telescopes will consist of large volume three-dimensional grids of optical modules to detect the Cherenkov light from charged particles produced by neutrino-induced interactions. Each optical module houses 31 3-in. photomultiplier tubes, instrumentation for calibration of the photomultiplier signal and positioning of the optical module, and all associated electronics boards. By design, the total electrical power consumption of an optical module has been capped at seven Watts. We present an overview of the front-end and readout electronics system inside the optical module, which has been designed for a 1-ns synchronization between the clocks of all optical modules in the grid during a life time of at least 20 year