This article discusses and describes the interconnectedness (connecting the dots) of systems thinking as the overarching concept integrating the principle concepts of TeamSTEPPS®, interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional practice (IPP). Each in turn have different approaches of nomenclature and terminology, depending on the audience; yet have essentially the same overall principl...

BACKGROUND Little evidence exists to determine whether depression predicts hospital utilization following discharge among adult inpatients on a general medical service. OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine whether a positive depression screen during hospitalization is significantly associated with an increased rate of returning for hospital services. DESIGN A secondary analysis was performed usi...

The prevalence of HIV infection among TB patients in the TB/HAART-HAART Referral Centre of General Hospital Ugep, Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria from 2009 to 2010 was studied. Samples of blood were collected from 738 TB patients in 2009 and 377 TB patients in 2010, and their HIV status determined. Viral antibody detection was carried out using World Health Organizati...

385, 26th Annual American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum, San Antonio, TX. J Vet Intern Med 2008;22:819 (abstract) b Carr EA, Pusterla N, Schott HC, II, et al. Equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) recrudescence and viremia in hospitalized critically ill horses: Abstract #123, 26th Annual American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum, San Antonio, TX. J Vet Intern Med 2008;22:737...

BACKGROUND Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli O157:H7) is now recognized as a major cause of diarrhoea, hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome worldwide. Consumption of raw or undercooked meat of bovine origin has been the most common means of transmitting this organism. METHODOLOGY Over a period of 7 months (October 2006 to April 2007), a total of 738 raw meat samples were collecte...

We used quantitative magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to determine if relationships exist between proposed molecular biomarkers for degenerative joint disease (DJD) and structural characteristics of articular cartilage. Subjects were eight male and eight female volunteers diagnosed with osteoarthritis. Magnetic resonance images of the symptomatic knee were taken and blood samples were drawn. Con...

Color vision deficiency (CVD) occurs when there is an error in the development of one or more types of retinal cone cells that receive color in light and transmit that information to the optic nerve (1). Among them, red-green CVD shows the highest prevalence (2). Red-Green CVD is divisible into severe or dichromatic forms [protanopia and deu-teranopia] and milder or anomalous trichromatic forms...