As a current member of ACEN, I am pleased to have an opportunity in this column to profile briefly an upcoming CHSRF-funded study of Canadian nursing leadership. The study is officially entitled “A Profile of the Structure and Impact of Nursing Management in Canadian Hospitals,” and was approved for funding by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (Project Identifier: RC10964-06) in ...

Before an outline of the process of diagnosis and differential diagnosis in infectious and/or inflammatory psy-chosyndromes is given, a more general overview onto the approach to organic psychosyndromes seems useful, because in both entities similar principles of causality conclusion are applied. Correlation does not demonstrate causality. Therefore the principles and consensus recommendations,...

Provide a point-by-point response to all reviewer comments, structured as: B author’s response to the reviewer (in a respectful tone); B changes to the paper (whether and where). Provide a marked revision of your paper. In case of rejection: B do not get frustrated and motivate yourself to move on quickly; B improve your paper if possible, based on the reviewers’ comments; and B submit the new ...

Methods Seventy-seven centres from 33 countries have been contributing to an international secured web-based registry for autoinflammatory diseases (EUROFEVER), hosted by the PRINTO website (Paediatric Rheumatology International Trial Organisation, http://www.printo.it). The registry collects anonymised demographic, clinical, laboratory and molecular genetic data on patients with autoinflammato...

CB 05022, the medium duration rice culture with the parentage of CO 43/ ADT 39 was developed at Department of Rice, TNAU, Coimbatore. The culture was evaluated at station trials and it gave 21.8% increased yield over ADT (R) 46. This culture was evaluated under AICRIP in irrigated transplanted low land ecosystem as IET 20884 for two years 2006-2008. Under IVT-IM the culture recorded a mean grai...

Methods Bidirectional DNA Sequencing analysis of MEFV gene in all coding exons and exon-intron boundaries was performed in Turkish patients clinically pre-diagnosed as FMF consulted in Ege University School of Medicine between years 2009-2013 (n=8000) and in healthy control group individuals (n=250). For patients who were mutation negative in screened exons, exons 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 were also...

Background.  Cryptococcal meningitis is a leading cause of death in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The World Health Organizations recommends pre-antiretroviral treatment (ART) cryptococcal antigen (CRAG) screening in persons with CD4 below 100 cells/µL. We assessed the prevalence and outcome of cryptococcal antigenemia in rural souther...