On October 1, 2013 the reporting of diagnoses and procedures in the U.S. will transition from the clinical modification of the ninth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9-CM) to the tenth revision (ICD-10). The impact of conversion to ICD-10 on Medicare MS-DRG payments to hospitals was estimated using 2009 Medicare data. A minimal hospital payment increase of 0.05 perc...

A rapid nutritional and health evaluation of a random sample of 163 pregnant women was conducted in low socioeconomic settlements of Karachi, with the objective of determining the morbidity and nutritional status of pregnant women. These data are expected to be used in an ongoing community-based antenatal care programme. Twenty-nine percent of women reported fever, 14 percent diarrhoea and 33 p...

Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the most common malignancies world wide. We present data on 76 patients admitted to the Shaikh Zayed Hospital. Mean age was 52.2 +/- 11.3 years. Eighty six percent were males and 14% females. Eighty-six percent patients had underlying cirrhosis documented on ultrasound examination. Seventy-five percent were positive for anti HCV, 10% for HBsAg positive, 10% fo...

Laser measurements of the intensity (201)322−(000)221 near-infrared water absorption line at 10,670.1 cm−1 are made using three different Herriott cells. These determine with an standard deviation below 0.3% by consideration new geometrically derived formula for optical path length without approximations. This determination together current accepted value lead to overall uncertainty 0.7% experi...

throughout the present research, squash (cucurbita pepo) slices (0.4 cm thickness and 4 cm diameter) were blanched in a steam chamber for 4 min. following cooling to room temperature, the squash slices were dehydrated by use of a hotair dryer, under air temperature of 60°c up to moisture content of 0.1065 kg h2o per kg d.m. squash slices of specified weights were rehydrated by immersion in dist...