OBJECTIVE To assess case definitions for influenza in a rural community in India. METHODS Residents of the study area who were hospitalized for any acute medical condition for at least one night between May 2009 and April 2011 were enrolled. Respiratory specimens were collected and tested for influenza viruses in a reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The PCR results were ta...

INTRODUCTION A process of construction of institutional declaration of mental health patient's duties and rights is shown, highlighting that mentally ill people are considered particularly susceptible to the violation of their rights. Some aspects from historical, quality issues and law in Colombia are presented. Some declarations of rights were available, but they needed to be updated and adap...

background: the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (mets) is increasing worldwide. limited data are available trying to compare different definitions suggested to identify mets. this study aimed to compare the prevalence of mets and its components based on currently available international and iranian national definitions. methods: the present cross-sectional study was conducted in 2015 among fem...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the 4-year risk of high intraocular pressure (IOP) and associated factors in a black population without glaucoma at baseline. DESIGN Population-based incidence study. PARTICIPANTS Random sample of Barbados residents aged 40 to 84 years. After 4 years, 3427 (85%) were reexamined. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Development of elevated IOP (using percentile-based definitions) am...

background: residents play an important role in the delivery of hospital care. they regularly work overnight, in emergency situations and with workload and stress which can affect their performance and quality of working life (qwl). this study explores the qwl and its contributory factors in residents working at hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences (tums), tehran, ira...

The concept of food security has been defined on numerous occasions by the international community and it has evolved considerably over time. One of the most fundamental shifts has been the change from an initial concept in which food security was considered equivalent to the reliable availability of food towards the contemporary notion in which food is one of the elements of a complex social c...

Metadata descriptions of database contents are required to build and use systems that access and deliver data in response to user requests. When numerous heterogeneous databases are brought together in a single system, their various metadata formalizations must be homogenized and integrated in order to support the access planning and delivery system. This integration is a tedious process that r...