Clinical staging determines antiretroviral therapy (ART) eligibility when CD4 count is not available. Haemoglobin (Hb) ≤8 g/dL is an indication for the treatment. We measured Hb in HIV-positive Malawian adults undergoing clinical assessment for ART eligibility and calculated the percentage of patients with CD4 ≤ 350 cells/μL deemed eligible for ART by clinical staging with and without Hb measur...

BACKGROUND Determining eligibility for a kidney transplant is an important decision. Practice guidelines define contraindications to transplantation; however many are not evidence based. Canadian guidelines recommend that patients unlikely to survive the wait period not be evaluated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate what proportion of patients with a contraindication would survive the ...

Formalizing eligibility criteria in a computer-interpretable language would facilitate eligibility determination for study subjects and the identification of studies on similar patient populations. Because such formalization is extremely labor intensive, we transform the problem from one of fully capturing the semantics of criteria directly in a formal expression language to one of annotating f...

This presentation focuses on the process for initial evaluation of students with speech-language impairment. An involves use a variety assessment tools and strategies to gather relevant functional, developmental, academic information assist in determining if child is eligible special education services. There three-pronged question eligibility: (1) whether student disability by reason thereof, ...

1Respectively, Senior Research Specialist and Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University. INTRODUCTION A certification mark is defined by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as any word, name, symbol, or device owned by one party and used by another party or parties to certify some aspect of the mark owner’s good or service....

The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) and Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) are important components of India’s social safety net. Shortcomings in these food assistance programs have led to various calls for reform in recent times. As policy makers contemplate changes, lessons from the United States’ reforms of its own Food Stamp Program (FSP) may prove useful in selecting among alternative d...

CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS The editors of BMC Emergency Medicine would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 15 (2015).