To investigate the predictive factors for dehydration in acute diarrheal patients, this case control study was conducted using the observational analytic method. Acute diarrheal patients who were admitted to the Hospital and Outpatient Pediatric Clinic, Dr Soetomo Hospital, were included in this study. By discriminant analysis, three significant variables were determined to differentiate dehydr...

OBJECTIVE Physicians are taught that the pelvic exam is a key part of the evaluation of a woman presenting with abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding. However, the exam is time consuming and invasive, and its use in the emergency department (ED) has not been prospectively evaluated. We evaluated how often the findings of the pelvic exam changed management in a cohort of consecutive female patients...

To determine the minimum number of Cryptosporidium oocysts that can be detected in stool specimens by diagnostic procedures, stool samples seeded with known numbers of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts were processed by the modified Formalin-ethyl acetate (FEA) stool concentration method. FEA concentrates were subsequently examined by both the modified cold Kinyoun acid-fast (AF) staining and fluo...

The e ect of the ordering of questions in sample surveys has been well investigated. However, there has been no study so far that examined the e ect of the ordering of exam questions on the exam behavior of students. In this paper, we will discuss the e ect of the ordering of questions on the student behavior for an introductory long{distance statistics course. Because we were working with the ...

background: helicobacter pylori (h.pylori) infection causes multiple upper gastrointestinal diseases but optimal therapeutic regimen which can eradicate infection in all the cases has not yet been defined. this study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of triple levofloxacin-based versus clarithromycin-based therapy. methods: in this open-label randomized clinical trial study 120 patients who...

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