Background As part of the Dutch National Care for the Elderly Programme, The Older Persons and Informal Caregivers Survey Minimum Data Set (TOPICS-MDS) was developed to gather uniform information on outcome measures. Furthermore, to combine the outcome measures into one single index and to promote comparability between studies, a preference-weighted Composite End Point (called: TOPICS-CEP) was ...

Future service robots will need to keep track of the persons in their environment. A number of people tracking systems have been developed for mobile robots, but it is currently impossible to make objective comparisons of their performance. This paper presents a comprehensive, quantitative evaluation of a state-of-the-art people tracking system for a mobile robot in an office environment, for b...

In early 2013, four clusters of human Salmonella infections were identified through PulseNet, the national molecular subtyping network for foodborne bacteria. Many of the ill persons in these four clusters reported contact with live poultry, primarily chicks and ducklings, from a single mail-order hatchery; therefore, these investigations were merged. During March 4-October 9, 2013, a total of ...

Axis I comorbidity is associated with greater severity of social anxiety disorder. However, the differential effects of comorbid mood and anxiety disorders on symptom severity or treatment outcome have not been investigated. We evaluated 69 persons with uncomplicated social anxiety disorder, 39 persons with an additional anxiety disorder, and 33 persons with an additional mood disorder (with or...

extending the time for revaccination beyond 10 years may be based on insufficient and conflicting evidence of persistence of immunity (1,2). The evidence that cellmediated immunity and neutralizing antibody persist after one vaccination is conflicting (2–5). This residual immunity is often low, and its protective activity in vivo is unclear. Similarly, in vivo reports of durable immunity to sma...