Is This a Dress Rehearsal?

Estimating Reliability and Bias from Reinterviews with Application to the 1998 Dress Rehearsal Race Question

1. Introduction Reinterview surveys have been used extensively in census evaluations since 1940's. Reinterview surveys are designed with the objective of estimating measurement reliability, measurement bias, or both bias and reliability. For estimating reliability, a test-retest reinterview design is typically used. In a test-retest reinterview survey, a subset of the questions from the origina...

Posterior Vertebral Injury; Is This a Burst Fracture or a Flexion-Distraction Injury?

In thoracolumbar spinal fractures with posterior column injury for applying proper management, it is important to distinguish a flexion-distraction injury (FDI) from a three column burst fracture (BF) as in clinical examination, both may have a similar significant tenderness on direct spinal palpation. Careful attention to the comprehensive clinical examination and detailed imaging features are...

A critical study on commentaries of : He said: This is a right way with Me

On the forty first verse of the chapter Hijr no acceptable commentary has given so far. The verse can be regarded as one opposed to the diversity of commentators` views. The origin of the diversity of the two groups, Shiite and Sunni, has been known to be the meaning of This and with Me. The paper has critically given four ways of reading the verse firstly and then studied commentator`s four vi...

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A Mysterious DRESS Case: Autoimmune Enteropathy Associated with DRESS Syndrome

Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) is a rare but potentially life-threatening cutaneous hypersensitivity reaction characterized by extensive mucocutaneous eruption, fever, hematologic abnormalities, and extensive organ involvement. Here, we present a case of a young woman with DRESS syndrome following exposure to vancomycin with renal, cutaneous, and gastrointestinal ...