Evaluating Parental Disagreement in ADHD Diagnosis: Can We Rely on a Single Report From Home?

Evaluating Parental Disagreement in ADHD Diagnosis: Can We Rely on a Single Report From Home?

OBJECTIVE Few studies assessed factors associated with the agreement/disagreement between fathers and mothers when rating ADHD symptoms of their offspring. METHOD Teachers and both parents assessed a referred sample of 98 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 years ( M age = 9.79, SD = 2.59) using the Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham (SNAP-IV) rating scale. The agreement was assessed for each of th...

Periocular keratoacanthoma: can we always rely on the clinical diagnosis?

AIM To present a series of patients with a clinical diagnosis of periocular keratoacanthoma and assess the incidence of histologically proven invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). METHODS This retrospective case series included all patients with periocular tumours seen in the authors' unit between 1996 and 2004, and who were initially diagnosed with keratoacanthoma based on the clinical pre...

Can we Rely on SQL?

It is important for any data language that it enables many people to derive correct information from a databases in a simple, effective way with predictable performance. In an analysis is shown that SQL cannot fulfill these essential preconditions. It is caused by insufficient structural semantics of the relational model and the related operations in SQL. This follows from a comparison with res...

Can we truly rely on the urinary antigen test for the diagnosis? Legionella case report

It is critical to diagnose and treat Legionella pneumonia (LP) immediately after infection because of the associated high mortality. The urine antigen test (UAT) is often used for the diagnosis of LP; however, it cannot detect the serogroups of all Legionella species. A detained medical history and several clinical findings such as liver enzyme elevation and hyponatremia are useful in diagnosis...

Can we rely on suicide mortality data?