What use is a clinical case definition for AIDS in Africa?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
What use is a clinical case definition for AIDS in Africa?
The article proposes that the clinical case definition for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Africa is an unworkable concept, with the wrong definition, incorrect validation, improper use, and consequently is a poor surveillance tool. The definition was proposed by the World Health Organization in 1986 to satisfy the use in countries with limited diagnostic resources, and resources for ser...
متن کاملAssessment of clinical case-definition for HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of World Health Organisation (WHO's) clinical case-definition (CCD) for AIDS in a private hospital. DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. SUBJECTS A total of 601 patients (> 14 years) were studied from January 1995 to December 1997. METHODS Using HIV test results as a reference standard, sensitivity...
متن کاملWhat is the Clinical Skills Learning Center?
With shorter periods of hospitalazation, fewer patient beds and more health care facilities in the society, patients are now more acutely ill and highly dependent, causing less opportunities for medical students to practice and learn basic clinical skills. On the other hand, enhanced patient rights and other learnig limitations require that professional education provide not only knowledge and ...
متن کاملWhat is life? Prerequisites for a definition.
Biologists view life as transient while theologians see it as eternal. An unbiased definition for life would respect both views until one or both were eliminated by evidence. This paper identifies pre-requisites for such a definition. First among these is that all assumptions be made explicit. Currently "life" is surrounded by implicit assumptions, e.g., that it is what organisms lose at death ...
متن کاملWhat is the definition of \"vitamin D deficiency\" and who is considered \"vitamin D deficient\"? Urgent need for a national consensus
since early works on isolation and characterization of vitamin D by Elmer Verner McCollum and Edward Mellanby in 1900s, this molecule still seems mysterious (1-2). After several decades since discovery of the miraculous effect of cod liver oil in treatment of nutritional rickets, escalating number of reports provide a huge body of evidence for various effects of vitamin D ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.303.6811.1189