The years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act have seen substantial changes in the organization and delivery of primary care. These changes have emphasized greater team involvement in care and expansion of the roles of each team member including registered nurses (RNs). This study examined the roles of RNs in 30 exemplary primary care practices. We identified the emergence of new roles...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of information registered on fetal death certificates. METHODS Records were reviewed from 710 fetal deaths registered in the consolidated database of deaths from the State System for Data Analysis and the São Paulo State Secretary of Health, for deaths in São Paulo municipality (Southeastern Brazil) during the first semester of 2008. Completeness was analyzed...

Background: Patient information, medical history, clinical outcomes and demographic information, can be registered in different ways in registration programs. For evaluation of diabetes care, data can easily be extracted from a structured registration program (SRP). The usability of data from this source depends on the agreement of this data with that of the usual data registration in the elect...

A total of 28 species 13 families were registered. All recorded new records to the Zanzibar autonomous region, ten Tanzania, eight East Africa and two (Lepidopsocus pretiosus (Banks, 1942) Belaphopsocus murphyi Lienhard, 1991) entire African continent. Original photos 22 found provided, some these had never been photographed before.

This study provides new records of water mites from Erzincan, Gümüşhane and Tunceli provinces (Turkey). Thirteen species have been registered as for the hydrachnid mite fauna area. Parathyas colligera (K. Viets, 1923) is a record Turkey. So far, no given Gümüşhane. Including data, total number taxa recorded Erzincan province tallies 81 in 17 families.

We record for the first time Darwin wasp species Photocryptus nigrosignatus (Kriechbaumer, 1901) parasitizing nests of solitary Sceliphron fistularium (Dahlbom, 1843) in Amazonas state, Brazil, and provide new distribution records them S. asiaticum (Linnaeus, 1758), other registered to Brazil. Additionally, we also report emergence Pachodynerus nasidens Latreille, 1817 (Vespidae), parasitoid wa...

Detailed data on type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients and treatment in clinical practice are scarce. The Nordic region offers unique opportunities for research on patient-level data from various complementary data sources, by availability of homogenous public healthcare systems with clinical information registered in electronic medical records (EMR) and mandatory national registers, and dat...