various studies have been conducted to study the relationship between job involvement and organizational citizenship behavior but a very little work have been done to study the impact of both job involvement and organizational commitment on “organizational citizenship behavior”. thus the purpose of the study is to find out the relationship between job involvement, organizational commitment and ...

Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) severity is graded by pattern of organ involvement and clinical performance status using a system introduced by Glucksberg and colleagues 21 years ago. We examined how well Glucksberg grade predicted transplant outcome and constructed a Severity Index not requiring subjective assessment of performance in 2881 adults receiving an HLA-identical sibling T-cel...

background: there is evidence that pulmonary function abnormalities are present in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). the aim of this case-control study was to assess the frequency of pulmonary dysfunction in patients with ibd. materials and methods: pulmonary function of 37 patients with ibd (8 with cd and 29 with uc) without any known pulmonary disease was tested by body-box plet...

BACKGROUND Adrenaline auto-injectors (AAI) should be provided to individuals considered to be at high risk of anaphylaxis. There is some evidence that the rate of AAI prescription is increasing, but the true extent has not been previously quantified. AIM To estimate the trends in annual GP-issued prescriptions for AAI among UK children between 2000 and 2012. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective...

BACKGROUND Anaphylaxis is a medical emergency that requires the intramuscular injection of adrenaline using an adrenaline auto-injector (AAI). This study compared the robustness and performance characteristics of three AAIs available in Europe. METHODS Three AAIs (Jext(®), EpiPen(®), and Anapen(®)) were tested in terms of the force needed to activate the AAIs, exposed needle length, injection...

Background Pulmonary involvement is one of the primary contributors morbi-mortality among patients followed for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) [1]. Comorbidities are also independent factors poor outcomes on those debilitated population. Objectives We aimed to assess association between comorbidity and pulmonary in rheumatoid arthritis Methods conducted a retrospective study our rheumatology departm...

Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection usually presents with upper and lower respiratory tract infection. Extrapulmonary involvement is not uncommon, however. We report two cases of predominantly extrapulmonary manifestations of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection without significant pulmonary involvement. Both cases were diagnosed by serology. These cases illustrate the diversity of clinical presentation...

introduction with the increase in women's employment and change in attitudes towards father’s role in family, father involvement in infant care can indirectly influence the physical health and well being of infant and mother. materials and methods this randomized clinical trial was performed on 150 qualified pregnant women and husbands. during the 35-37 weeks of pregnancy, fathers in fathe...