In the occurrence and development of neurological diseases,it often accompanied by cognitive impairment,which severely decreases the quality of life of the patients.Therefore,it is necessary for patients with neurological diseases to rapidly screen cognitive function.This aricle reviews the advances in research on the brief cognitive rating scales commnly used in clinical.

Objective:To retrospectively evaluate the prognostic risk factors of patients with gallbladder carcinoma and the effect of normal prognostic nutrition index (PNI) on the survival. Methods:We retrospectively analyzed 63 patients with gallbladder carcino-ma treated in our hospital between January 2008 and December 2012. The independent prognostic factors of the patients were calculat-ed by the Cox proportional hazards model. The benefit of normal PNI status on the prognosis was further explored in the patients using survival analysis. Results:Lymph node metastasis, PNI≤50, squamous carcinoma, liver invasion and choledoch invasion were the risk factors of overall survival (OS) in the univariate analysis, while only lymph node metastasis (HR=4.495, 95%CI 2.380~8.488, P<0.001) and PNI(HR=0.195, 95%CI 0.098~0.389, P<0.001) were the dependent influential factors of the prognosis and OS in the multi-variate analysis. The effect of PNI on OS was even more statistically significant different in the younger patients (≤65y) than in the el-der (>65y) (younger group:P=0.011;elder group:P=0.078). Conclusion:The gallbladder carcinoma patients with normal PNI status (>50) have better OS compared to the patients with PNI≤50, with statistical differences between the two. And it is more significant in the patients of the younger group (≤65y), comparing with the elder group. PNI could be taken as a potential prognostic evaluation factor for the gallbladder carcinoma patients and can provide a more comprehensive evaluation of patients' conditions to clinician.

Objective:To study the substitution effect of outpatient services on inpatient services and provide suggestions on designing outpatient policies. Methods:The data were from 13 districts/counties in one area of eastern China from 2007 to 2013 for the new cooperative medical scheme. This study em-ployed a fixed effects model to analyze the impacts of outpatient visit times, expenditure amounts and re-imbursements on inpatient services. Results: One outpatient visit reduced the total amount of inpatient services by 20 Yuan. An increase of 10 000 Yuan outpatient reimbursements saved 9 700 Yuan inpatient expenses. An increase of 10 000 Yuan outpatient expenses led to a decrease of 3 000 Yuan inpatient re-imbursements. The outpatient services did not increase the inpatient hospitalization times significantly. In particular, the effects of the outpatient services were mainly on the inpatient services at the district/coun-ty levels, and no significant impacts on the outpatient services at the city levels. Conclusion:There is a substitution effect of outpatient services on inpatient services. The health insurance departments should take this substitution effect into account and shift more funds on outpatient series, when they design out-patient and inpatient reimbursement policies.

As a highly efficient protein degradation pathway,ubiquitin-proteasome system(UPS) plays an important role in maintaining cell function.The role of UPS is becoming a new research focus in molecular mechanism of cognitive function.UPS mainly acts on neurotrans mitter and its receptor,synaptic reguIation,long-term potentiation of postsynaptic poteraiais and neuronal signal transduction,and it may become a new target for the intervention of cognitive dysfunction.

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Objective To investigate the pathogenesis in hemifacial spasm by establishing animal models of hemifacial spasm and combining with electrophysiological technique. Methods 28 New Zealand white rabbits were randomized into four groups: 13 rabbits underwent both artificial demylination and arterial compression (model group). 5 rabbits underwent only arterial compression, 5 rabbits underwent only artificial demyelination and 5 rabbits underwent sham operation control. Abnormal muscle response (AMR) and F wave changes in all groups were tested and compared at the third or sixth week after operation respectively.Results No AMR was recorded in all four groups at the third week after operation, while a clear AMR was elicited in ten animals in model group rather than in the other groups at the sixth week of postoperation. F/M amplitude ratio, the F wave duration and frequency of F wave appearance in model animals significantly increased as compared with those of the other groups ( P 0 05). Conclusion The hyperactivity of the facial motonucleus may be the pathophysiological basis of hemifacial spasm.

Objective To compare the therapeutic effect of laparoscopic radical cystectomy with orthotopic ileal neobladder (LRC-INB) vs open radical cystectomy (ORC-INB). Methods A total of 81 patients were evaluated including 33 undergoing LRC-INB (group A) and 48,ORC-INB (group B) from June 1994 to September 2004 at our institution.The parameters for analysis included operative time,surgical method,blood loss,therapeutic effect,complications and hospital stay.Statistics included t-test and chi-square analysis (P

Purpose:To investigate the expression of oncogene survivin,c-erbB-2 in breast cancer and its prognostic significance.Methods:Detect the expression of survivin,c-erbB-2 in 80 case breast cancer tissues by immunohistochemistry S-P method,analyze its correlation with axillary lymph node metastasis and 5-year disease free survival(DFS).Results:Survivin gene positive expression rate was 68.75%(55/80),c-erbB-2 gene positive expression rate was 36.25%(29/80) in breast cancer tissues,all have positive correlation with the axillary lymph nodes metastasis but negative to 5 years DFS(P0.05);survivin and c-erbB-2 genes expression have positive correlation(P

Objective To study expression and clinical significance of nm23 genes in primary breast carcinomas. Methods The expression of nm23 was detected by immunohistochemical S-P method in 286 cases of primary breast carcinomas. Results The positive rate of nm23 expression was 65.7%. There was not a significant correlation between the positive rate of nm23 and patients' age, tumor pathological types. There was a significant relation between the expression of nm23 and tumor clinical stage, axillary lymph node metastasis, and the positive rate of nm23 expression in the cases of clinical stage I without axilliary lymph node metastasis was significantly higher than that in the cases of clinical stage III with axilliary lymph node metastasis. Conclusion The expression of nm23 gene was negatively related with clinical stage and axilliary lymph node metastasis in breast carcinomas, which indicated that nm23 gene expression may serve as an index for predicting lymph node metastasis and the prognosis of breast carcinoma.