The recently published "Survival and Ventricular Enlargement" (SAVE), prospective controlled trial over 4 years including over 2,000 patients, has shown that long-term treatment with captopril reduced cardiovascular mortality (- 19%) and morbidity in patients with post-infarction left...

In the Basel regulation the required capital of a financial institution is based on conditional measures of the risk of its future equity value such as Value-at-Risk, or Expected Shortfall. In Basel 2 the uncertainty on this equity value is captured by means of changes in asset prices (market...

It is shown that it is possible to construct a disequilibrium microeconomics in which agents react to the evidence of disequilibrium (inventories, nonnormal ratio of capacity utilization, etc.). In a one good model, we describe the set of fixed points In addition to normal equilibrium, two...

Objectives To assess the efficacy and the cost of a French team work experiment between nurses and GPs for managing type 2 diabetes patients. Methods Based on a case control study design we compare the evolution of process (standard follow-up procedures) and final (glycemic control) outcomes,...

In the Basel regulation the required capital of a financial institution is based on conditional measures of the risk of its future equity value such as Value-at-Risk, or Expected Shortfall. In Basel 2 the uncertainty on this equity value is captured by means of changes in asset prices (market...

Cet article est une réflexion à caractère épistémologique et pédagogique sur la connaissance du fait financier dans l'entreprise. Sont d'abord examinées dans cet article les différentes façons de l'identifier : de façon empirique à travers les tâches de la direction financière ou...

Economic evaluation of an antibiotics shortened treatments needs total costs measurement for each medical strategy (traditional and shortened) taking in account for each pathology and each group of patients, treatment durations and their success probabilities. Costs, to be measured are not only...

Imipeneme, a molecule chemically related to the carbapenems (beta-lactam), is a potent wide spectrum antibiotic reserved for hospital use. Effective as therapy for major infections, and for use in severely debilitated patients (immunodepressed, etc...) its efficacy in the treatment of...