Investigators from Yokohama City University and other medical centers in Israel and Japan reported mutations on N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors subunit GRIN1 (GluN1) identified in patients with nonsyndromic intellectual disability and early-onset epileptic encephalopathy.

377. Impact of an Educational Intervention to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing for Nurse Practitioners (NPs) in a Pediatric Urgent Care Centers (UCC) Gina Weddle, DNP, RN, CPNP; Angela Myers, MD, MPH; Jason Newland, MD; Jennifer Goldman, MD; J. Christopher Day, MD; Leslie Stach, PharmD, BCPS; Diana Yu, PharmD, BCPS; Infectious Disease, The Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kc, MO; Children’s Mercy Hospi...

The objectives of this study were to explore the factors contributing to patient Satisfaction in Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCCs) in Hail city, Saudi Arabia. A cross-sectional quantitative survey was conducted using an instrument with valid and reliable properties. Six dimensions of patient satisfaction were identified by factor analysis, with adequate to high levels of internal consistency r...

Author affiliations: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, Montana, USA (R.J. Nett, J.R. Merriman); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (R.J. Nett, B.J. Park); St. Peter’s Medical Group, Helena (D. Skillman); Lewis and Clark City-County Health Department, Helena (L. Riek); Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana (B. Davis); Sawtooth Infectious ...

Historic city is a particular type of cultural heritages with sustainable drive of development. It’s a spatial vessel of people’s activities shaped by regional environment, economical and social background. Actually, an integral city is not only meaning the town centers, but also the whole urban area. The massive information scattering on wide range of the urban area and changeful adapting to s...

Introduction: Air pollution due to particulate matter is a major environmental and health issue in all regions of the world. The aim of this study was to investigate the health impacts of PM10 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤10μm) in Khorramabad city, Iran in 2014. Materials and methods: In this study, PM10 sampling was conducted by a high-volume sampler at flow rate of 1.1-1...

OBJECTIVE Tuberculosis (TB) is a major source of mortality in urban India, with many structural challenges to optimal care delivery. In the government TB program in Chennai, India's fourth most populous city, there is a 49% gap between the official number of smear-positive TB patients diagnosed and the official number registered in TB treatment within the city in 2014. We hypothesize that this ...