OBJECTIVES This report describes ambulatory care visits made to physician offices in the United States. Statistics are presented on selected characteristics of the physician's practice, the patient, and the visit. METHODS The data presented in this report were collected in the 2006 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), a national probability sample survey of visits to nonfederal of...

Abstract Background Routine health facility data are a critical source of local monitoring progress and performance at the subnational level. Uganda has been using district statistics from for many years. We aimed to systematically assess quality examine different methods obtain plausible estimates coverage maternal, newborn child interventions. Methods Annual routine information system 2015–20...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the annual health services utilization (HSU) cost per person with FASD by sex and age; the lifetime HSU cost per person with FASD by sex, and the annual HSU cost of FASD for Alberta by sex. METHODS The HSU costs of FASD including physician, outpatient, and inpatient services were described by sex and age. The costs per person-year were estimated by multiplying the avera...

The aim of this study was to determine whether there was seasonal variation in skin diseases amongst dermatology out-patients in Nepal. A retrospective study was done of all new out-patients visiting a single dermatologist, at the Om Hospital and Research Center, Kathmandu, Nepal. The study population comprised all new patients visiting the dermatology out-patient department, between January an...

OBJECTIVES The development of long-acting, injectable atypical antipsychotics has provided a new paradigm for schizophrenia treatment. The study was designed to assess whether a risperidone long-acting injection (RLAI) is associated with reduced relapses and service utilization in the real world. METHODS The Psychiatric Inpatients Medical Claims dataset was used for the analysis. It is a long...

background: the variable numbers of tandem-repeat (vntr) alleles at the phenylalanine hydroxylase (pah) gene have been used in carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis in phenylketonuria families. this study was carried out to analyze vntr alleles at the pah gene in iranian azeri turkish population. methods: in this study, 200 alleles from general population were studied by pcr. results: the fr...

religious scientists opinion about the numbers meaning in quran is different. some of them including shahab-o-ddin ebne edris reject that the numbers shall go out of their main original meaning and shall be applied in their virtual meaning and some others agree that some numbers like seven, seventy, and thousands are indicative of figurative meanings and say about them: the meaning of these num...

the purpose of this paper is to generalize the concepts of statisticalconvergence of sequences of fuzzy numbers defined by a modulus functionusing difference operator $delta$ and give some inclusion relations.

BACKGROUND Significant health disparities exist between limited English proficient and English-proficient patients. Little is known about the impact of language services on chronic disease outcomes such as for diabetes. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS To determine whether the amount and type of language services received during primary care visits had an impact on diabetes-related outcomes (hospit...