Tax Return Preparation and Review Checklists, 1983

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A national audit of the management pathways for new HIV diagnoses

The British HIV Association recommends that new diagnoses be reviewed by an HIV specialist within two weeks. NHS England outcome measures include the proportion of new diagnoses commencing antiretroviral therapy (ART) within 91 days. We aimed to review the extent to which these recommendations were followed, to explore the topics discussed with new diagnoses, and to identify reasons behind delayed ART initiation. UK specialist HIV services were invited to retrospectively review the notes of their last 40 new diagnoses over a 15-month period. One-hundred and thirty-two services provided data for 2281 eligible individuals. Most new diagnoses were reviewed by a specialist within two weeks (67.7%) and were commenced on ART within 91 days (83%), however, there were some concerning delays in those tested at home and in general practice. Partner notification and treatment benefits were discussed with most individuals, unlike the availability of community support and U = U (“undetectable equals untransmittable”). Lengthy delays in ART initiation were mostly due to individuals initially declining ART or missing appointments. Our findings suggest a need for more streamlined pathways into HIV care, review of new diagnoses who have not commenced ART within 8 weeks, and protocol development to ensure discussion of relevant topics

Optimal treatment allocations in space and time for on-line control of an emerging infectious disease

A key component in controlling the spread of an epidemic is deciding where, whenand to whom to apply an intervention.We develop a framework for using data to informthese decisionsin realtime.We formalize a treatment allocation strategy as a sequence of functions, oneper treatment period, that map up-to-date information on the spread of an infectious diseaseto a subset of locations where treatment should be allocated. An optimal allocation strategyoptimizes some cumulative outcome, e.g. the number of uninfected locations, the geographicfootprint of the disease or the cost of the epidemic. Estimation of an optimal allocation strategyfor an emerging infectious disease is challenging because spatial proximity induces interferencebetween locations, the number of possible allocations is exponential in the number oflocations, and because disease dynamics and intervention effectiveness are unknown at outbreak.We derive a Bayesian on-line estimator of the optimal allocation strategy that combinessimulation–optimization with Thompson sampling.The estimator proposed performs favourablyin simulation experiments. This work is motivated by and illustrated using data on the spread ofwhite nose syndrome, which is a highly fatal infectious disease devastating bat populations inNorth America

The validation of a new comprehensive headache-specific quality of life questionnaire

BACKGROUND: Measuring quality of life (QOL) is an important means of assessing the impact of headache. The currently used QOL questionnaires are usually geared toward migraine and focus on a limited number of factors, thus they are not necessarily informative in other headache types. We report the psychometric properties of a new questionnaire, the Comprehensive Headache-related Quality of life Questionnaire (CHQQ) that may be more sensitive to the burden of headache. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 202 patients suffering from migraine (n = 168) or tension-type headache (TTH) (n = 34) completed the CHQQ and SF-36, a generic QOL questionnaire. We assessed the reliability and validity of the CHQQ and its physical, mental and social dimensions. RESULTS: The questionnaire was easy to administer. Reliability was excellent with Cronbach's alpha being 0.913 for the whole instrument (0.814-0.832 for its dimensions). The dimensions and total score showed significant correlations with the patients' headache characteristics (criterion validity), and were also significantly correlated with the SF-36 domains (convergent validity). The total score and dimensions were significantly (p < 0.005) lower in the migraine group than in the TTH group (discriminative validity). CONCLUSION: In this study the new headache-specific QOL instrument showed adequate psychometric properties

Evaluated kinetic and photochemical data for atmospheric chemistry: Volume II &ndash; gas phase reactions of organic species

This article, the second in the series, presents kinetic and photochemical data evaluated by the IUPAC Subcommittee on Gas Kinetic Data Evaluation for Atmospheric Chemistry. It covers the gas phase and photochemical reactions of Organic species, which were last published in 1999, and were updated on the IUPAC website in late 2002, and subsequently during the preparation of this article. The article consists of a summary table of the recommended rate coefficients, containing the recommended kinetic parameters for the evaluated reactions, and eight appendices containing the data sheets, which provide information upon which the recommendations are made

Report of the AALS Committee on Libraries and Technology, Subcommittee on Law Library Reporting Structures

The reporting structure for academic law libraries is a topic of renewed debate. Tradition and accreditation standards for law schools have supported law school oversight of law libraries to ensure that library services would focus on the goals of the law school. Because legal research has been considered a bedrock component of legal education and legal practice, law libraries have long been closely aligned with law schools. However, new information technologies, increased pressures for efficiencies, growing interest in interdisciplinary work, and growing interdisciplinary demand for lawyer librarian expertise in information law have inspired questions about potential advantages of strengthening the connection between the law library and other libraries in the same university. Suggestions include not only that law libraries collaborate more with university library systems but also that law library oversight might be removed from law schools and centralized within the university library system

Evaluation of oxacillin and cefoxitin disk diffusion and microbroth dilution methods for detecting mecA-mediated β-lactam resistance in contemporary Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates

Methicillin (β-lactam) resistance i