INTRODUCTION Patient examinations performed in a limited time period may lead to impairment in patient and physician relationship, defective and erroneous diagnosis, inappropriate prescriptions, less common use of preventive medicine practices, poor patient satisfaction, and increased violent acts against health-care staff. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the appropriate minimal durat...

BACKGROUND Fever is one of the most frequently encountered pediatric problems, accounting for 25% of visits to pediatric emergency room. There is no specific standardized approach to reach to a final diagnosis in children with fever as this may be difficult and individualized for each child. The integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) approach is an approach designed to reach a classi...

Over the last 20 years, the highly interdisciplinary field of tissue engineering (TE) has become an established subspecialty in research facilities all over the world. Numerous methods and protocols are available for various research intentions and aims, but there are no data indicating which of these methods and resources are generally used. This study is an overview of the resources and metho...

INTRODUCTION AND RATIONALE Influenza and pneumonia remain serious health concerns for long-term care (LTC) residents. Vaccination of LTC residents and health care workers are reasonable preventive strategies, although most facilities fall short of Healthy People 2010 goals. Improving immunization rates across multiple LTC facilities remains an elusive challenge. This quality improvement study s...

Department of Agric. Economics and Extension, University of Uyo, Uyo,Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. E-mail address: [email protected] The study assessed rural household accessibility to health care on agricultural resource use efficiency in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria. Primary data were duly obtained using well structured questionnaire which was administered on eighty r...

Cost optimization for a large-scale hybrid central cooling plant with multiple energy sources under a complex electricity cost structure Yin Guo a & Jeonghan Ko b a Facilities Management & Planning , University of Nebraska-Lincoln , Lincoln , NE , USA b Industrial Engineering, Ajou University , San 5, Woncheon-Dong, Yeongtong-Gu, Suwon , Gyeonggi-do, 443-749 , Republic of Korea Published online...

for their committed assistance in preparing the seminar. Acknowledgements We acknowledge the generous financial assistance of Kultusministerium des Landes Sachsen–Anhalt Amt für Wirtschaftsförderung der Stadt Halle (Saale) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Companies have also generously supported the seminar. We are grateful to ComTelco We are indebted to the Martin–Luther–University Halle–Witten...

by an increase in protein content, while the amount of desoxyribonucleic acid remains unchanged. Acknowledgments.-This work was supported by research grants from the University of California Board of Research. We are greatly indebted to Professor A. W. Pollister, Dept. of Zoology, Columbia University, for allowing the senior author use of his laboratory facilities to conduct the measurements de...

Mar ıa-Jos e Endara*, Alexander Weinhold, James E. Cox, Natasha L. Wiggins, Phyllis D. Coley and Thomas A. Kursar Department of Biology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0840, USA; Health Sciences Center Core Research Facilities, School of Medicine, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0840, USA; and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa Box 0843-03092, Panama