patients and methods this retrospective study used a database of a cr ward of a hospital in iran. the demographic and clinical information of 574 patients participating in the cr program from april 2005 through april 2010 were analyzed. in order to determine the predictors of anxiety, binary logistic regression was performed. results after adjustment for gender, age and education, the results s...

BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal illnesses (GI) continue to pose a substantial burden in terms of morbidity and economic impact in Canada. We describe the epidemiology of reportable GI in Ontario by characterizing the incidence of each reportable GI, as well as associated demographics, clinical outcomes, seasonality, risk settings, and likely sources of infection. METHODS Reports on laboratory con...

BACKGROUND Analytical studies of reportable infectious diseases often use the small minority of cases detected through surveillance systems. For many diseases, notification of cases represents a non-random selection process. Apparent differences in exposure histories may be due to biases involved in the surveillance system selection of cases compared to randomly selected controls. In addition, ...

With increasing cfDNA aneuploidy screening, there is a corresponding increase in “false positive” and “non-reportable” results the setting of maternal malignancy. We hypothesize that these may be further characterized depending on stage type cancer. This was retrospective review cases with screening diagnosis malignancy during pregnancy. abstracted history, diagnoses, results, fetal outcomes fr...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the performance of a chemiluminescence detection kit for cardiac troponin T (cTnT). METHODS According to the "Guiding principles on performance analysis of diagnostic reagents in vitro" and the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Guidelines, we assessed the detection limit, linear range, reportable range, accuracy, precision, cross reactivity, interferenc...

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a notifiable and reportable disease recognised by the Office Internationale Epizooties (OIE) penned for eradication 2030. It an endemic devastating of small in some countries Africa, Asia, Middle East. The militates against ruminant production increased flock numbers region. Information literature on current review was especially obtained compiled from CABI a...

Blastomycosis is an invasive fungal disease caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis and the recently discovered Blastomyces gilchristii. The medical charts of 64 patients with confirmed cases of blastomycosis in northwestern Ontario during a 10-year period (2004 to 2014) were retrospectively reviewed. The number of patients diagnosed with blastomycosis in Ontario was observed to have increased subst...

BACKGROUND One strategy for the prevention of motor vehicle crashes is physician reporting of medically unfit drivers to vehicle licensing authorities, as mandated by law in Ontario, Canada. We studied drivers involved in life-threatening crashes who required hospital admission to determine how many had previously been seen and reported by a physician in the community. METHODS We identified c...