1230. Impact of Nonpayment for Preventable Infections on Billing Rates for Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections and CatheterAssociated Urinary Tract Infections Alison Tse Kawai, ScD, SM; Robert Jin, MS; Stephen Soumerai, ScD; Louise Elaine Vaz, MD; Melisa Rett, MPH; Grace Lee, MD, MPH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute,...

Background: Resistant hypertension (RH) may be one of the cause of the plateau in improving the control rate in hypertension (HT) management. The misdiagnosis of RH by clinic blood pressure (BP) is important clinical problem. Aim of the study were to investigate the prevalence of RH by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and the factor associated with control status of ambulatory BPs. M...

BACKGROUND Resistant hypertension (RH) may be one of the cause of the plateau in improving the control rate in hypertension (HT) management. The misdiagnosis of RH by clinic blood pressure (BP) is important clinical problem. Aim of the study were to investigate the prevalence of RH by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and the factor associated with control status of ambulatory BPs. ...

Background: Congenital heart diseases, which are asymptomatic at birth, are the most important causes of infant mortality. This study aimed to evaluate the role of pulse oximetry in the early detection of congenital heart diseases among newborns.Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 1230 newborns who were born in university hospitals in an urban area of Iran were placed unde...

Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK, Zoological Society London, Institute of Zoology, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK, Lurzengasse 3, D-97236, Randersacker, Germany, Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Via L. da Vinci 44, Grugliasco (TO), Italy, Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University, 123...

The Estonian NEO-FFI was administered to 2650 Estonian adolescents (1420 girls and 1230 boys) aged from 12 to 18 years and attending 6th, 8th, 10th, or 12th grade at secondary schools all over Estonia. Although the mean levels of personality traits of Estonian adolescents were quite similar to the respective scores of Estonian adults, there was a developmental gap in Agreeableness and Conscient...