This paper presents the design, development, and deployment of a novel request management system (RMS) for the Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC). The RMS’s main goal is to provide a variety of domain expertise in areas such as statistical analysis, data management, and regulatory policy and procedures to clinical investigators who are unlikely to have them available. Consult...

BACKGROUND Since 2005, pediculosis is one of the obligatory reportable diseases from community to the Center of Disease Control. This study is the first nationwide survey on the prevalence of pediculosis and some associated risk factors in Iranian children and adolescents. METHODS National data of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education were gathered in 2005 through school screening prog...

wet-nursing in England appears to be in the seventeenth century when the urban growth of London in particular presented mothers with similar problems regarding their infants. Evidence for bureaucratic intervention, however, is lacking in England. The conclusion of the author that economic pressure was the predominant cause in the rise and decline of wet-nursing is convincing. The sheer intensit...

Some philosophers maintain that consciousness as subjective experience has no biological function. However, conscious brain events seem very different from unconscious ones. The cortex and thalamus support the reportable qualitative contents of consciousness. Subcortical structures like the cerebellum do not. Likewise, attended sensory stimuli are typically reportable as conscious, while memori...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to identify the incidence of suboptimal therapeutic responses and adverse events associated with sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) for faecal incontinence, and to determine their influence on treatment outcome. METHODS Prospectively collected data from 176 patients who underwent SNS were reviewed retrospectively. Patient variables and reportable events were an...

Objectives To explore the challenges Health Information Technology (HIT) vendors face to satisfy the requirements for Meaningful Use (MU) and Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) of reportable diseases to the public health departments in Kentucky. Methodology A survey was conducted of Health Information Exchange (HIE) vendors in Kentucky through the Kentucky Health Information Exchange (KHIE...

orbital lynphangioma is a low-flow or no-flow vascular malformation. it is a congenital and isolated hemodynamic lesion in which the clinical presentation and onset are related to orbital, peri-orbital or intracranial involvement. in addition, history of previous trauma and upper respiratory tract infection are important predictor factors. high resolution mri, doppler ultrasound and ct-scan are...

From the perspective of contemporary psychology’s identity as both a biological/neurobiological and social science, it may be hard to imagine that it was only in the 1970s that clinical neuropsychology began its emergence as a clearly defi ned discipline in private practice and medical settings. Although many of the techniques and concepts that form the basis of modern practice of neuropsycholo...