News tagged with discrepancy
Warming ocean layers will undermine polar ice sheets
Warming of the ocean's subsurface layers will melt underwater portions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets faster than previously thought, according to new University of Arizona-led research. Such melting ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 03, 2011 |
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European food outbreak soars; mystery deepens
(AP) -- The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Restaurants cherry pick parties by size
Wait times quoted by restaurants typically increase depending on the size of the party. Though large parties are often given longer wait times, the actual time spent waiting to be seated turns out to be shorter than the ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 09, 2011 |
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Frequent inaccuracies in testosterone testing lead to call for standardization
The use of testosterone assays for patient care and research is on the rise as new research links testosterone to a variety of diseases and conditions. Although the assays are heavily used, discrepancies and inaccuracies ...
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Patients presenting medication lists reduce the risk of error during hospital admission
A recent study conducted at Northwestern Memorial Hospital found that almost 50 percent of medication discrepancies were related to a failure to understand all of the prescription medications patients were taking at the time ...
May 05, 2010 |
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Some discrepancies exist between outcomes indicated in trial registration and later publications
Comparison of the primary outcomes of registered clinical trials with their subsequent publication appears to show some discrepancies, according to a study in the September 2 issue of JAMA.
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Prevalence of variant CJD agent in Britain remains uncertain
First results from a large tissue survey in Britain of the agent that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) are unable so far to establish that the prevalence is lower than that given by previous estimates, concludes ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 21, 2009 |
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