The aims of this study were to report on ACSCs in Ireland, and to provide a baseline for future reference.

Using HIPE, via Health Atlas Ireland, inpatient discharges classified as ACSCs using definitions from the Victorian ACSC study were extracted for the years 2005-2008. Direct methods of standardisation allowed comparison of rates using the EU standard population as a comparison for national data, and national population as comparison for county data. Costs were estimated using diagnosis-related groups.

The directly age-standardised discharge rate for ACSC-related discharges increased slightly, but non-significantly,

from 15.40 per 1,000 population in 2005 to 15.75 per 1,000 population in 2008. The

number of discharges increased PARP phosphorylation (9.5%) from 63,619 in 2005 to 69,664 in 2008, with the estimated associated hospital costs increasing (31.5%) from a,not sign267.8 million in 2005 to a,not sign352.2 million in 2008. Across the country, there was considerable variation in the discharge rates for the Top-10 ACSCs for the years 2005-2008. Significantly lower rates of hospitalisation were observed in more urban areas including Cork, Dublin and Galway. The most common ACSC in 2008 was diabetes with complications (29.8%).

The variation in rates observed indicates the scope of reducing hospitalisations and associated costs for ACSCs, across both adult’s and children’s services and particularly in relation to diabetes complications.”
“Charge ordering, dielectric MK2206 permittivity, and local structure of La5/3Sr1/3NiO4 system have been explored by x-ray charge scattering, complex dielectric impedance spectroscopy, and extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measurements, made on the same single crystal sample. The local

structure measured by the temperature-dependent, polarized Ni K-edge EXAFS shows significant distortions in the NiO2 planes. These local distortions could be reasonable cause of high dielectric permittivity of the title system (epsilon approximate to 100 at 5 K) with the charge ordering in this system being a ferroelectriclike second order transition. (C) 2009 see more American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3260222]“
“Orthopaedic higher surgical trainees in Ireland are allocated to one of eight training rotations. Each trainee is expected to publish at least one research paper per year during training.

To assess the research productivity of each training rotation over a 10-year period.

A PubMed search was performed for each orthopaedic unit affiliated to higher surgical training (HST) in order to identify full-text research papers published between 2001 and 2010. The results were analysed to determine which training rotations are most productive in terms of research.

We identified 267 papers published from 16 units over the 10-year period.