001). The mean time to hemostasis was 6.6 minutes (SD 2.5). A median of five dressings (mean absolute deviation 1.0, p = 0.007) was sufficient to control hemorrhage in the FAST Dressing group.

Conclusion: The FAST Dressing reduced blood loss and improved survival compared www.selleckchem.com/products/chir-99021-ct99021-hcl.html with placebo in a noncoagulopathic, grade V liver injury swine model.”
“Priority-setting involves diverse parties with intense and often conflicting interests and values. Still, the political aspects of priority-setting

are largely unexplored in the literature on health policy. In this paper, we examine how policy makers in Korea changed their strategies as the policy context for priority setting changed from only expanding benefits to a double burden of benefit expansion plus cost containment.

This analysis shows that priority-setting is a profoundly political process. The policy context shapes how policy makers choose their political strategies. In particular, we find that policy makers sway between “”credit claiming”" and “”blame avoidance”" strategies. Korean policy makers resorted to three types of political strategies when confronted with a double burden of benefit expansion and cost containment: delegating responsibility to other institutions

(agency strategies), replacing judgment-based decisions Selleck P5091 with automatic rules (policy strategies), and focusing on the presentation of how decisions are made (presentational strategies). The paper suggests implications for future studies on priority-setting SYN-117 mw in the Korean health care system and in other countries that face similar challenges, and concludes that Korean policy makers need to put more effort into developing transparent and systematic priority-setting processes, especially in times of double burden of benefit expansion and cost containment. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland

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“In this study an experiment was carried out for two years to assess the effects of various exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) levels on growth, gel yield, aloin content and nutrient content of Aloe vera. A. vera suckers were planted at 10 (control), 15, 30, 45 and 60 ESP levels in pots. Suckers planted up to 30 ESP level survived well, while, those planted at 45 ESP picked up their growth in second year. But suckers planted at 60 ESP died. Number of suckers, leaf numbers and leaf biomass increased significantly in both the years at 15 and 30 ESP as compared to control and 45 ESP. The gel content also increased at 15 ESP level in both the years from the control plants but decreased significantly at 30 and 45 ESP, whereas, aloin content increased significantly up to 30 ESP after that decreased at 45 ESP. Concentration of nitrogen (N), calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) decreased significantly from 15 to 45 ESP, while, the concentration of phosphorus (P) and sodium (Na) increased correspondingly. Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) was less at 15 ESP and P use efficiency was high at control and 45 ESP.