Background and objectives: Cancer patients treated with chemotherapy and other immunosuppressive drugs are always prone to various infections including opportunistic parasites. Since detection of infections in immunocompromised patients are frequently imperfect and the usual symptoms such as pyrexia are missing or hidden due to leukopenia, the importance of detection of opportu...

Claudia Hawkins, Oche Agbaji, Placid Ugoagwu, Chloe L. Thio, Muazu M. Auwal, Charles Ani, Chinedum Okafo, Erika Wallender, and Robert L. Murphy Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Medicine, University of Jos and Jos University Teaching Hospital, HIV Clinic, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; and Vanderbilt University M...

Several factors have been incriminated in the etiologies of critical incidents: shortages in organizing rules, anesthesia technique, patient environment, human factor, team work and communication. This is the third follow up report describing our performance during the last five years (2003-2008). The possible incriminating causes were identified with the objective of avoiding such eventualitie...

Medication errors are among the most common medical errors in the hospitals. Transcription error is a specific type of medication errors and is due to data entry error that is commonly made by the human operators. This study was designed to detect transcription errors in a teaching hospital in Tehran. Direct observational method was used in this study. Error was defined as any deviation in tran...

Partial coherence interferometry (PCI) has an 8% to 22% failure rate for a variety of reasons such as mature cataract, inability to fixate secondary to macular degeneration, tremor, keratopathy, nystagmus, and vitreous hemorrhage. The new composite IOLMaster version 5 software has demonstrated a failure rate of 7.4%, primarily because of posterior subcapsular cataracts. Few studies of the effic...

1. Efstratiou A, Engler KH, Mazurova IK, Glushkevich T, Vuopio-Varkila J, Popovic T. Current approaches to the laboratory diagnosis of diphtheria. J Infect Dis. 2000;181(Suppl 1):S138–45. doi:10.1086/315552 2. Bolt F, Cassiday P, Tondella ML, Dezoysa A, Efstratiou A, Sing A, et al. Multilocus sequence typing identifi es evidence for recombination and two distinct lineages of Corynebacterium dip...

1Department of Haematology, Special Investigations Laboratory, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria,2Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria,3Department of General Medical Practice, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria,4Department of Chemical Pathology, Universit...

BACKGROUND Our obstetrics and gynaecology undergraduate teaching module allocates 40-50 final year medical students to eight teaching hospital sites in the West Midlands region. Based on student feedback and concerns relating to the impact of new curriculum changes, we wished to objectively assess whether the educational environment perceived by students varied at different teaching hospital ce...

Mathews Journal of Case Reports Hydranencephaly Mohammad Nawaz Nasery1, Farhad Farzam1, Hidayatullah Hamidi2, Jamshid Sadiqi2, Ahmad Reshad Faizi2, Fazel Rahman Faizi2, Marzia Mohammadi2 1Radiology department, Ali Abad Teaching Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan. 2Radiology department, French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC), Kabul, Afghanistan. Corresponding Author: Mohammad Nawaz Nasery, Ali A...

Background The relatively new specialty of Hospital Medicine in the USA is one of the fastest growing fields in internal medicine. Academic hospitalists are largely involved in the medical education of postgraduate residents and medical students. Little is known about the effectiveness of peer-to-peer teaching in internal medicine residency training programs and how the medical residents percei...