Abstract Background and Objective: Often, discharge of children against medical advice has a negative effect on the well-being of the patient. To determine the prevalence of discharge against medical advice (DAMA) among hospitalized children and examine the reasons given by parents/guardians for such discharges. Methods: A retrospective 2-year medical records audit of children aged one day to ...

aim: there is conclusive scientific evidence of the adverse effect of excessive salt consumption on health, particularly on blood pressure, leading to cardiovascular disease (cvd), gastric cancer, osteoporosis, cataracts, kidney stones, diabetes and obesity. we investigated the determinants of salt consumption among the rural women in chabahar (iran) by applying the theory of planned behavior. ...

In an international trial of premenopausal women with hormone receptor positive operable breast cancer that compares how the timing of surgical oophorectomy and mastectomy affects time to recurrence, we re-evaluated the required sample size near the end of the planned accrual period. We had anticipated that failure probabilities used at the design stage were too high resulting in a loss of powe...

Well-planned projects might end unsatisfactorily if changes in software release plan are not controlled and managed. While process control detects potentially risky changes, re-planning adjusts a current plan to changing reality. Association rule mining can be used to discover interesting relations like associations, correlations etc. among different attributes of large databases. We investigat...

This paper discusses the role of decision-making in the early phases of systems development, especially requirements engineering. Current business environment in telecommunications industry demands for collaboration with a variety of stakeholders. Understanding of users’ needs and capabilities to provide feasible systems and solutions require collaboration. We regard early commitments and the v...

This case underscores the need to have reliable systems in place to ensure that EDs have: policies in place fore re-assessing patients at discharge, a procedure for describing how vital signs are assessed prior to disposition and how abnormal findings are addressed, a requirement to document the review of vital signs prior to disposition; a requirement for documenting the rationale for continui...

Successful IT-enabled innovation is often attributed to benefit realization. However, often the results of the innovations are disappointing. Reason for this is argued to be a divide between development of the technological solution, and the organizational implementation and change that should ensure realization of the planned benefits. To handle this dilemma, it is advised to strengthen the ma...

in this study, as for the re-casting, surface alloying and re-solidification layer of this alloys at the work piece level machining with wire electro discharge machining (wedm), changes of surface micro hardness with changes of operational parameters has been studied. therefore, study shows using surface alloying phenomena with the diffusion of wire material into the machined surface and select...