BACKGROUND In Ontario, infectious gastrointestinal illness (IGI) reporting can be represented by a linear model of several sequential steps required for a case to be captured in the provincial reportable disease surveillance system. Since reportable enteric data are known to represent only a small fraction of the total IGI in the community, the objective of this study was to estimate the under-...

BACKGROUND In Brazil, lethality from visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is high and few studies have addressed prognostic factors. This historical cohort study was designed to investigate the prognostic factors for death from VL in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). METHODOLOGY The analysis was based on data of the Reportable Disease Information System-SINAN (Brazilian Ministry of Health) relating to the clin...

Lifestyle and environmental factors play a significant role both in clinical research as well as clinical care. In clinical research, it has been established that 5-10% of cancers can be attributed to hereditary factors, while 90-95% have been found correlated with lifestyle and environmental factors such as smoking, diet and exercise. For clinical care, it has long been practice to record soci...

background : the existing evidence about the clinical situations of the bipolar patients with opioid dependence is scarce. the present study was carried out to compare the clinical features and course of the bipolar disorder type i regarding the two subgroups of opioid dependent and non-dependent. methods : there were 178 adult patients with bipolar disorder type i consecutively referred to the...

OBJECTIVES To examine the impact of restructuring a child and adolescent psychiatry inpatient unit on reportable incidents (including verbal or physical aggression), seclusion, security, constant observation, sick leave and lengths of stay. METHODS Data was collected regarding a seven-bed child and adolescent psychiatric unit between 2008 and 2010, comparing data from 2008 and 2009 (before) t...

A cross-sectional study was performed to assess bone health history among aromatase inhibitor (AI) users before breast cancer (BC) diagnosis, which may impact fracture risk after AI therapy and choice of initial hormonal therapy. A total of 2,157 invasive BC patients initially treated with an AI were identified from a prospective cohort study at Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC). Dat...