Protein food intake appears to partially structure dietary patterns, as most current emergent diets (e.g., vegetarian and flexitarian) can be described according to their levels of specific protein sources. However, few data are available on dietary protein patterns in the general population and their association with nutrient adequacy. Based on protein food intake data concerning 1678 adults f...

Biodiversity is key for human and environmental health. Available dietary and ecological indicators are not designed to assess the intricate relationship between food biodiversity and diet quality. We applied biodiversity indicators to dietary intake data from and assessed associations with diet quality of women and young children. Data from 24-hour diet recalls (55% in the wet season) of n = 6...

Objectives. To assess adherence to long-term medications among patients in family medicine clinics and to evaluate relationship between adherence, beliefs about medications, medication information adequacy, and other factors. Methods. Interviewer assisted survey was conducted to assess adherence using the 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8), beliefs about medications using belief...

BACKGROUND The adequacy of thromboprophylaxis prescriptions in acutely ill hospitalized medical patients needs improvement. OBJECTIVE To prospectively assess the efficacy of thromboprophylaxis adequacy of various clinical decision support systems (CDSS) with the aim of increasing the use of explicit criteria for thromboprophylaxis prescription in nine Swiss medical services. METHODS We rand...

In case of inadequacy, hemodialysis, as one of the most common treatments for chronic renal failure, increases the blood toxins, complications, hospital stay, costs, and death. High-Flux filters can be effective in increasing hemodialysis adequacy if the patients tolerate and do not display complications. Therefore, this article aimed to study the efficiency of these dialyzers in increasing the...

The reliability of power converters has been extensively examined in terms component- and converter level. However, case multiple generation units, the evaluation performance systems requires system-level modeling. This paper aims to merge prior art modeling with adequacy through an extensive design analysis a microgrid based study. methodology proposed integrates device-level into domain conve...