BACKGROUND The fact that patient satisfaction with primary care clinical practices and physician-patient communications has decreased gradually has brought a new opportunity to the online channel as a supplementary service to provide additional information. OBJECTIVE In this study, our objectives were to examine the process of cognitive knowledge expectation-confirmation from eHealth users an...

Introduction. The test for the induction of reverse gene mutations (Ames test, OECD* guideline No. 471) is one most popular methods assessing mutagenicity due to its ease execution and ability detect up 70-80% substances with carcinogenic activity. experimental protocol requires a minimum amount substance standard microbiological laboratory equipment. To obtain primary data, several days from s...

The aim of the present study was to compare the direct costs of three models for detection of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in routine clinical practice in Switzerland. Comparison of the overall costs of screening for LTBI, including medical and radiological examination, and preventive treatment associated with three screening models was carried out. Model 1 relies only on the tuberculin...

PURPOSE To create a binocular statistical eye model based on previously measured ocular biometric data. METHODS Thirty-nine parameters were determined for a group of 127 healthy subjects (37 male, 90 female; 96.8% Caucasian) with an average age of 39.9 ± 12.2 years and spherical equivalent refraction of -0.98 ± 1.77 D. These parameters described the biometry of both eyes and the subjects' age...

BACKGROUND Automated digital microscopy has the potential to improve the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB), particularly in settings where molecular testing is too expensive to perform routinely. The cost-effectiveness of TB diagnostic algorithms using automated digital microscopy remains uncertain. METHODS Using data from a demonstration study of an automated digital microscopy system (TBDx, Ap...