Background: Despite their broad commitment to family-centred care, children’s hospitals
and associated pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) restricted family presence during the …

Purpose Limiting family presence runs counter to the family-centred values of Canadian
pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). This study explores how implementing and enforcing …

Pediatric observation units (OUs) are hospital areas used to provide medical evaluation and/or
management for health-related conditions in children, typically for a well-defined, brief …

The review and verification of credentials and the granting of clinical privileges are required
of every hospital to ensure that members of the medical staff are competent and qualified to …

… In chapter 3, Laura Hamilton and Kacey Guin analyze the demand side by looking at how
families make such choices. The topic is crucial. The effectiveness of choice in allowing good …

Medulloblastoma is an aggressively growing tumour, arising in the cerebellum or medulla/brain
stem. It is the most common malignant brain tumour in children, and shows tremendous …

BACKGROUND It is believed that BRCA1 and BRCA2 germline mutations account for the
majority of hereditary ovarian carcinomas; however, to the authors' knowledge, there are scant …

Analysis of 4,405 variants in 89,050 European subjects from 41 case-control studies identified
three independent association signals for estrogen-receptor-positive tumors at 11q13. …

Value-added measures of teacher quality may be sensitive to the quantitative properties of
the student tests upon which they are based. This article focuses on the sensitivity of value …

AcrAB-TolC is the paradigm resistance-nodulation-division (RND) multidrug resistance efflux
system in Gram-negative bacteria, with AcrB being the pump protein in this complex. We …