Background: Malnutrition is commonly reported among hospitalized paediatric patients. However, it often not diagnosed leading toprolonged hospital staysand other medical complications. Objective: This study aimed at evaluating the validity ofthe Screening Tool for Risk of Nutritional Status and Growth (STRONGkids) mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC)for assessing malnutrition in inpatients betwee...

Results Response rate was 98%. The Urban to Rural Population ratio in the survey was 1:1.2. Television (86%) was the main source of information. Knowledge on pandemic nature, symptoms, personal protective measures, treatment and preventive strategies were acceptable among 90.2, 96, 36, 12 & 31% respectively. None of them used face mask or hand wash, though known to 78 & 20% respectively. Litera...

● Most insurers, public and private, have failed to measure systematically the fraud problem they face. Oblivious to the slightly more technical presentation of some of the material in this Research in Brief is found in the article “Health Care Fraud Control: Understanding the Challenge,” published in the Journal of Insurance Medicine, 28 (November 1996):2, 86–96. We are grateful to the publica...

The sequence presented was obtained by screening a cDNA library constructed in lambda gtlO from human mammary carcinoma with probes derived from cDNA of the translationally controlled, growth-related mouse tumor protein p23 (1,2). It has 86% similarity to the mouse cDNA sequence and encodes a protein with 96% similarity to the mouse tumor protein. The 3-primed noncoding region of the appropriat...

We present estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) in Navarre, Spain, in the early 2012/13 season, which was dominated by influenza B. In a population-based cohort using electronic records from physicians, the adjusted VE in preventing influenzalike illness was 32% (95% confidence interval (CI): 15 to 46). In a nested test-negative case-control analysis the adjusted VE in preventing l...

It is therefore very important to optimise the care of diabetic patients at primary, secondary and tertiary care level. Numerous clinical practice guidelines for management of diabetes have been compiled and circulated to health care workers, but despite this the level of diabetes care is still not ideal because of suboptimal implementation strategies. Guideline implementation problems are a si...