OBJECTIVE To investigate the burden and causes of life-threatening maternal complications and the quality of emergency obstetric care in Nigerian public tertiary hospitals. DESIGN Nationwide cross-sectional study. SETTING Forty-two tertiary hospitals. POPULATION Women admitted for pregnancy, childbirth and puerperal complications. METHODS All cases of severe maternal outcome (SMO: mater...

Ovarian Cancer is a problem battled worldwide and typically diagnosed at an advanced stage due to the lack of effective screening strategies. An method should detect disease earlier diagnosis such that treatment would result in better outcome not inevitable mortality. Diagnosis cancer early (stage 1) could be benefit good strategies because it associated with high 5- year survival rate (95%) as...

OBJECTIVES To examine the construct and correlates of hopelessness among family caregivers of Nigerian psychiatric patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study involving 264 family caregiver-patients' dyads recruited from two university teaching hospitals psychiatric clinics in Southwestern Nigeria. RESULTS Exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor 9-...

Smuggling of illicit substances by internal bodily concealment, known as body packing, has become a worldwide problem [1,2]. It was first reported in 1973 and since then it has evolved into an important means of international cocaine and heroin smuggling [3]. Herein we present two cases brought under custody to our hospital for treatment, after swallowing packages containing cocaine. Two male p...

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction is a multidimensional construct that reflects the type and quality of service provided by healthcare providers, how well it is delivered, and the extent to which the expectations and needs of patients are met. As a performance measure, patient satisfaction has been defined as the personal evaluation of health care services and providers. OBJECTIVE To develop a ...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer related deaths in women worldwide. The incidence of the disease is increasing globally and this increase is occurring at a faster rate in population groups that hirtherto enjoyed low incidence. This study was designed to evaluate the role of a simple tandem repeat polymorphism (STRP) in the aromatase (CYP19) gene...

This working note describes the system we used while participating in RusProfiling PAN 2017 shared task. The objective of the task is to identify the gender trait of the author from the author’s text written in the Russian Language. Taking this as a binary text classification problem, we have experimented to develop a representation scheme for target classes (called class vectors) from the text...