13 research outputs found
Legal Aspects of the Hospital Emergency Room
In any discussion of an emergency room or an emergency department or an emergency service, a definition of the terms of reference is always helpful at the start. Unfortunately, definitions of what constitutes an emergency room are not easily found and although numerous regulations governing hospitals refer to the provision of emergency service, none have hazarded a precise definition. Thus far, definitions all seem to be in agreement that personnel, materials and regulations should be present to insure immediacy or promptness of care. But uniform agreement on how immediacy and promptness are to be provided does not seem to be present in the authorities that we have consulted
Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples
Funder: NCI U24CA211006Abstract: The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) curated consensus somatic mutation calls using whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS), respectively. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, which aggregated whole genome sequencing data from 2,658 cancers across 38 tumour types, we compare WES and WGS side-by-side from 746 TCGA samples, finding that ~80% of mutations overlap in covered exonic regions. We estimate that low variant allele fraction (VAF < 15%) and clonal heterogeneity contribute up to 68% of private WGS mutations and 71% of private WES mutations. We observe that ~30% of private WGS mutations trace to mutations identified by a single variant caller in WES consensus efforts. WGS captures both ~50% more variation in exonic regions and un-observed mutations in loci with variable GC-content. Together, our analysis highlights technological divergences between two reproducible somatic variant detection efforts
La réhabilitation de l'handicapé
Page de titre : No 1 d'une série de publications éducationnelles sur la médecine physique réhabilitation publiées par la Société de réhabilitation des infirmes de Montréal;Collection Chagnon
Legal Aspects of the Hospital Emergency Room
In any discussion of an emergency room or an emergency department or an emergency service, a definition of the terms of reference is always helpful at the start. Unfortunately, definitions of what constitutes an emergency room are not easily found and although numerous regulations governing hospitals refer to the provision of emergency service, none have hazarded a precise definition. Thus far, definitions all seem to be in agreement that personnel, materials and regulations should be present to insure immediacy or promptness of care. But uniform agreement on how immediacy and promptness are to be provided does not seem to be present in the authorities that we have consulted
Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of life is
its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi inhabit the earth.
So, too, do 7 billion people. Two decades ago, at the first Earth Summit, the vast majority of the
world's nations declared that human actions were dismantling Earth's ecosystems, eliminating genes,
30 species, and biological traits at an alarming rate. This observation led to a daunting question: How
will loss of biological diversity alter the functioning of ecosystems and their ability to provide society
with the goods and services needed to prosper