Identification of sepsis is a major issue due to limitations in diagnosis and severity of outcome. Different combinations of tests are used to screen babies at risk for infection, none specific enough to avoid treatment of noninfected newborns. 193 newborns with 35 weeks of gestational age admitted in the maternity were screened for infection using a protocol scoring system involving haematolog...

History records what happened in the past. Do you remember the 23rd Olympic Games in Los Angeles? Xu Haifeng, the Chinese athlete, won China’s first gold medal for shooting. Do you remember the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona? Zhang Shan, a female Chinese athlete, outperformed all male athletes and became the only female champion in the history of skeet shooting. Do you remember the 1996 Olympi...

DSS was based on four characteristic imaging features confirmed Study Design. Retrospective diagnostic analysis. Objective. The aim of the study was to establish a new scoring system, the dumbbell scoring system (DSS), for preoperative evaluation of the malignant potential of spinal dumbbell tumors (SDTs). Summary of Background Data. Among SDTs, benign tumors such as schwannomas occur frequentl...

Introduction The purpose of this study was to determine the associations and predictive values of Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) component and composite scores prior to 2015 with U.S. Medical Licensure Exam (USMLE) Step 1 and Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) scores, with a focus on whether students scoring low on the MCAT were particularly likely to continue to score low on the USMLE exams...

BACKGROUND Personal qualities have been shown to affect students' exam results. We studied the effect of experience, and level, of public performance in music, drama, dance, sport, and debate at the time of admission to medical school as a predictor of student achievement in their first objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). METHODS A single medical school cohort (n = 265) sitting ...

abstract background: clinical risk index of babies (crib), score for neonatal acute physiology (snap), an update of the clinical risk index for babies score (crib ii) and score for neonatal acute physiology - perinatal extension (snap-pe) are scoring devices developed in neonatal intensive care units. this study reviewed these scoring systems in critically ill neonates to determine how well the...

Abstract: The widespread use of test scores for different educational and social decision making purposes has made the washback effect of tests a distinct educational phenomenon (Cheng, 1997).The high school third grade final exam in the general educational system of Iran has for long been a high stake test designed to assess the achievement of high school graduates in different school subjects...