1 Abdullah Göymen1, Yavuz Şimşek2, Şükran Esra Özkaplan1, Halil İbrahim Özdurak1, Yaşam Kemal Akpak3, Altuğ Semiz4, Serkan Oral5 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, SANKO University, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep, 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kırıkkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Kırıkkale, 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training a...

İkbal KAYGUSUZ*, İlknur İNEGÖL GÜMÜŞ, Melahat YILDIRIM, Hüsamettin ERDAMAR, Aysel UYSAL, Serap Aynur SİMAVLI, Abdullah AYYILDIZ, Muhammet Ramazan YİĞİTOĞLU Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Turgut Özal University, Ankara, Turkey Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Turgut Özal University, Ankara, Turkey Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Education a...

OBJECTIVES To introduce an effective and safe ophthalmic triaging system to be used by non-ophthalmologists.   METHODS A modified scoring triage system with more relevant clinical symptoms and signs from a previously published Rome Eye Scoring System for Urgency and Emergency (RESCUE) was evaluated over a 2-month period. The study was conducted following a prospective cohort design between Ma...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the relationship between metabolic control, acute and long-term complications, the coexistence of autoimmune diseases, and to assess the different factors that can affect the glycemic control level among children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). METHODS This is a cross-sectional study that included 228 T1DM children and adolescents visiting the pediatric diabete...

Background: The role of total IgE (TIGE) in detecting inhalant allergens (IA) sensitization in asthmatics is controversial and frequently underestimated. Objective: To test the relationship between TIGE and IA sensitization in asthmatics. Methods: One year duration cross-sectional study commencing from January in 2014. 118 asthmatics with mean age of 30±15 years collected from King Abdulaziz Un...

The primary aim of this study was to determine the incidents of pseudomonas aeruginosa in post-operative wound infection and its sensitivity pattern to commonly used antibiotics. During a period of six months between February to December, 2005, 115 specimens were collected from King Abdullah University Hospital, Princess Basma Hospital, Princess Badea and Princess Rahma Hospitals. Samples were ...

INTRODUCTION Hospital readmissions impose not only an extra burden on health care systems but impact patient health outcomes. Identifying modifiable behavioural risk factors that are possible causes of potentially avoidable readmissions can lower readmission rates and healthcare costs. METHODS Using the core principles of evidence based medicine and public health, the purpose of this study wa...

In practical computation with Runge–Kutta methods, the stage equations are not satisfied exactly, due to roundoff errors, algebraic solver errors, and so forth. We show by example that propagation of such errors within a single step can have catastrophic effects for otherwise practical and well-known methods. We perform a general analysis of internal error propagation, emphasizing that it depen...