OBJECTIVE To assess comprehensively the validity of the data in the Finnish Medical Birth Registry (MBR) by the combined use of several controls and internal analysis of the data. DESIGN The MBR data were individually linked to a medical record sample (n = 775) and to all perinatal death certificates in 1987. The data were also compared with annual hospital statistics. The distributions of bi...

OBJECTIVES To determine variation over time and between practices in recording of concerns related to abuse and neglect (maltreatment) in children's primary care records. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using a United Kingdom representative primary care database. SETTING 448 General Practices. PARTICIPANTS In total 1,548, 972 children (<18 y) registered between 1995 and 2010. MAIN OUT...

BACKGROUND Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) is internationally recommended for tuberculosis (TB) patients, but the feasibility, effectiveness, and impact of this policy on the TB programme in India are unknown. We evaluated PITC of TB patients across two districts in India considered to have generalized HIV epidemics, Tiruchirappalli (population 2.5 million) and Mysore (pop...

In present study, two species of Hyphomycetes fungi including, Cephaliophora tropica (in soil), and Monascus pilosus (on corn silage) are reported for the first time to Iranian mycobiota. Descriptions of these species have been provided with morphological characteristics and ITS rDNA sequence analyses.  

OBJECTIVE Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a common personality disorder, with a population prevalence of 1.4-5.9%, although the epidemiology of this disorder in primary care is insufficiently known. Our objective was to determine the registered prevalence of BPD in primary care databases and to study the demographic and clinical characteristics of these patients. METHODS We performed...

Heritabilities and genetic correlations were estimated for milk and fat yields and fat percentage from 305-d, matureequivalent records of registered and grade Holsteins in California, New York, and Wisconsin. Parameter estimates were olytained with daughter on dam regression within herd-year-season and sire of daughter. Data were pairs of first lactation records (38,115 in California, 171,555 i...

introduction & objective: after urinary tract infection and prostatic disorders , the urine stones are the third common genitourinary diseases. demographic, environmental and genetic factors affect urine stone formation. the aim of our study is to survey epidemiologic factors in patients with urinary stones referring to educational hospitals of hamadan during 2010-2013.      materials & methods...

Clinical mastitis (CM) is the most common veterinary treated disease in Swedish dairy cattle. To investigate if the distribution of veterinary registered cases of CM in Sweden follows that of the spatial distribution of cows with high somatic cell counts (SCCs), the spatial distribution of CM odds was estimated from available records and compared with udder health measures based on measurements...

BACKGROUND Complete or almost complete recording of reoperations is essential to enable a correct interpretation of data in arthroplasty registers. The completeness of recordings due to infection is unknown in the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register (SHAR). We therefore used a combination of data from the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register (SPDR) and studies of medical records to validate the data ...

29 Background: Complete or almost complete coverage of reoperations is essential to 30 enable a correct interpretation of data in arthroplasty registers. The completeness of 31 recordings due to infection is unknown in the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register 32 (SHAR). We therefore used the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register (SPDR) and 33 performed studies of medical records to evaluate this issue....