BACKGROUND In 2010, India accounted for 65,500 (47%) of the 139,300 measles-related deaths that occurred globally. Data on the quality of age-appropriate measles vaccination in rural India is sparse. We explored the following issues: (i) What proportion of Indian children were appropriately vaccinated against measles at 9 months of age, and DPT-3 at 4 months? (ii) Which health facilities admini...

The previous paper (Yamamoto et al., 1972) stated that the potency of tetanus toxoid in the combined vaccine (DPT) varied greatly when assayed against the current National Standard Tetanus Toxoid (plain, NSTT) and that the latter might not be suitable as the reference for the assay of the toxoid component in combined vaccines Since the fact seemed to raise a serious problem about the validity o...

OBJECTIVE We assessed whether type 1 diabetes (T1D) can be diagnosed earlier using a new approach based on prediction and natural history in autoantibody-positive individuals. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Diabetes Prevention Trial-Type 1 (DPT-1) and TrialNet Natural History Study (TNNHS) participants were studied. A metabolic index, the T1D Diagnostic Index60 (Index60), was developed from 2-h ...

Almost two-thirds of patients who visit a doctor for a reaction that is diagnosed as a ‘drug allergy’ (DA) are not allergic. This false claims of drug allergy leads to unnecessary avoidance of fi rst choice drugs, exposes the patient to less effective and potentially more toxic drugs, increases healthcare costs, and contributes to the development of antibiotic resistance. Therefore, a drug alle...

Accurate assessment of muscle-tendon forces in vivo requires knowledge of the muscle-tendon moment arm. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) can produce 2D images suitable for visualising both tendon and bone, thereby potentially allowing the moment arm to be measured but there is currently no validated DXA method for this purpose. The aims of this study were (i) to compare in vivo measuremen...

BACKGROUND Physical therapists practicing in inpatient acute care settings in the United States work in a 21st century health care system that requires professional competence in clinical reasoning and decision making. For doctor of physical therapy (DPT) students, the development of confidence in the patient evaluation and the professional skills necessary for managing the inpatient environmen...

This study was conducted to investigate the possible neurotransmitter that activates the descending pathways coming from the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum (DPT) to modulate spinal pelvic-urethra reflex potentiation. External urethra sphincter electromyogram (EUSE) activity in response to test stimulation (TS, 1/30 Hz) and repetitive stimulation (RS, 1 Hz) on the pelvic afferent nerve of 63 ane...

OBJECTIVE To study the effectiveness of planning and management interventions for ensuring children in India are immunized at the appropriate age. METHODS The study involved children aged less than 18 months recruited from Haryana, India, in 2005-2006: 4336 in a pre-intervention cohort and 5213 in a post-intervention cohort. In addition, immunization of 814 hospitalized children from outside ...

OBJECTIVE Upon diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, patients are usually symptomatic, and many have ketoacidosis. Screening for islet autoantibodies (IAs) has been shown to decrease A1C level and rate of hospitalization at diabetes onset. Metabolic tests and the presence of symptoms were described at diabetes onset during the Diabetes Prevention Trial-Type 1 (DPT-1). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to cross-validate the factor structure of the previously developed Student Perceptions of Team-Based Learning (TBL) Scale among students in an entry-level doctor of physical therapy (DPT) program in the United States. METHODS Toward the end of the semester in 2 patient/client management courses taught using TBL, 115 DPT students completed the Student Perc...