Disparity in endometriosis diagnoses between racial/ethnic groups

Disparity in disaster preparedness between racial/ethnic groups

Objective The objective of this study was to examine the association between race/ethnicity (including language subgroups among Hispanics) and disaster preparedness among Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey respondents. Methods BRFSS data were obtained for eight states which implemented the optional general preparedness module from 2006 through 2010. Three dependent variab...

The Association between ABO and Rh Blood Groups and Risk of Endometriosis in Iranian Women

Objective Endometriosis is a common gynecological disease, affects women’s quality of life. Several studies revealed that both environmental and genetic factors contribute to the development of endometriosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of ABO and Rh blood groups in Iranian women with endometriosis referring to two referral infertility centers in Tehran, Iran. Mate...

Congenital heart disease: interrelation between German diagnoses-related groups system and Aristotle complexity score.

OBJECTIVES The Disease-Related Groups (DRGs) system postulates that inpatient stays with similar levels of clinical complexity are expected to consume similar amounts of resources. This, applied to surgery of congenital heart disease, suggests that the higher the complexity of procedures as estimated by the Aristotle complexity score, the higher hospital reimbursement should be. This study anal...

Endometriosis: benign, malignant, or something in between?

Relation between fixation disparity and the asymmetry between convergent and divergent disparity step responses

The neural network model of Patel et al. [Patel, S. S., Jiang, B. C., & Ogmen, H. (2001). Vergence dynamics predict fixation disparity. Neural Computation, 13(7), 1495-1525] predicts that fixation disparity, the vergence error for a stationary fusion stimulus, is the result of asymmetrical dynamic properties of disparity vergence mechanisms: faster (slower) convergent than divergent responses g...