Current status of Blastocystis terminology

Terminology Status APIs – Mapping Obsolete Codes to Current RxNorm, SNOMED CT, and LOINC Concepts

We created the Terminology Status Application Programming Interface (API) to assist users in mapping obsolete codes to current RxNorm, SNOMED CT and LOINC concepts. Use cases include support for information retrieval, maintenance of value sets, and analytics of legacy clinical databases. Our terminology status APIs typically receive over 4 million calls per month on average.

Socioeconomic Status and Current Cigarette Smoking Status: Immigrants’ Diminished Returns

Introduction: Although socioeconomic status (SES) resources influence population and individual health behaviors, socially marginalized groups gain significantly less health from their SES indicators, such as education and income, compared to the socially privileged groups. This pattern is called marginalization-related diminished returns (MDRs). However, most of the MDRs liter...

Current status of health index in Tehran: A multidimensional approach

Background: Health is an essential component of human rights and the rights are interdependent, indivisible, and correlated. The present study aimed at codifying a multidimensional health index according to multistage index development and describing the status of this index in 22 municipal districts of Tehran.   Methods: This study was conducted using the data collected in the second r...

Current Diagnostic Status of Pheochromocytomaand Future Perspective: A Mini Review

Pheochromocytomas (PCCs) are rare neuroendocrine tumors. The current diagnostic tools are based on biochemistry and histopathology results, but heterogeneity of diagnostic markers, signs and symptoms of PCCs bring a lot of difficulties for these two current methods. Unfortunately microscopic understanding of PCCs is not adequate for its confident prognosis and management. There are data linking...

Chiral Drugs: Current Status of the Industry and the Market