In the late 1990s, a Department of Defense subcommittee screened more than 100 civilian trauma centers according to the number of admissions, percentage of penetrating trauma, and institutional interest in relation to the specific training missions of each of the three service branches. By the end of 2001, the Army started a program at University of Miami/Ryder Trauma Center, the Navy began a s...

The crucial issue in many classification applications is how to achieve the best possible classifier with a limited number of labeled data for training. Training data selection is one method which addresses this issue by selecting the most informative data for training. In this work, we propose three data selection mechanisms based on fuzzy clustering method: center-based selection, border-base...

BACKGROUND Since 2000, Iran has been delivering training and treatment services, including methadone therapy, to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients through triangular clinics. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of these activities at the HIV Triangulation Centre in the city of Kerman, Iran, through clients' views. METHODS Participants were recruited using a conven...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine the feasibility of individualized caregiver training for home care and symptom management conducted at the bedside of older patients with cancer prior to hospital discharge. DESIGN Pilot study. SETTING The Extended Care Rehabilitation Center at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Carolina. SAMPLE 7 female informal caregivers with a mean age ...

Faculty of Medical Science and Welfare Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University, Sendai, 1 Health Sciences Major, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, 2 Training Center, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Tokorozawa, 3 Research Unit for Nursing, Caring Sciences and Psychology National Institute for Longevity Sciences, Obu, and 4 National Rehabili...

last editorial of the asia pacific journal of medical toxicology addressed the important role of poison control centers in the improvement of public health (1). in vietnam, poison control center (pcc) of bach mai hospital has been the only national one for civilians. the establishment and activities of this center can be considered as one of the pioneers in the east asia. history and setting (2...

Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, and Margret and H.A. Rey Laboratory for Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Gerontology Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Division on Aging, Harvard Medical School; Research and Training Institute, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Ag...

background: diabetes is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease (cvd). moreover, cvd accounts for primary cause of death among diabetic patients. physicians, especially in the primary care setting, have effective role in the management of cardiovascular risk factors. therefore, we aimed to compare the prevalence of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetic patients attending t...