Introduction ECCO2R (extracorporeal dioxide carbon removal) is an extracorporeal decarboxylation technology described in 1978. Physiological studies showed that 50% of produced CO2 were eliminated. Potential indications are: ultra-protective mechanical ventilation (MV) for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and hypercapnic patients at risk of failure of noninvasive ventilation (NIV). Be...

THE INTERNET HAS BEEN RECOGnized for many years as an important, if concerning, mechanism for transforming medical care. While questions remain about its limitations, concerns regarding misinformation, and potential difficulties with the confidentiality of personal information, the Internet appears to have promise as a means to disseminate informationabouthealth andhealthcare, enhance communica...

Background: This study aimed to assess the pattern of hygienic behaviors of Iranian children and adolescents at national and sub-national levels according to the socioeconomic status (SES) of their living region.   Methods: Data were obtained from the fourth national school-based surveillance survey entitled, “CASPIAN-IV study” (2011-2012). It was conducted among 14,880 stud...

background: this study aimed to assess the frequency of consuming different types of snacks among iranian students according to socio-economic status (ses) of their living region. methods: data were obtained from the fourth national school-based surveillance survey entitled caspian-iv study. overall, 14880 school students, aged 6-18 years, were selected through multistage, cluster sampling from...

Background: An obvious gradient in health outcomes has been implicated in many evidences relating to social and economic factors. Proper data are requested to convince policy-makers calling for intersectoral action for health. Recently, I.R. of Iran has come up with 52 health equity indicators to monitor health equity through the country. Conducting regular surveys on 14 out of 52 national heal...

media (including books, newspapers & journals/magazines) is one of the most important elements in construction & institutionalization of modern identity. this paper will survey the role and importance of newspapers/journals in the national identity construct. for explaining the relations between these two variables, the following issues will be considered: • the construction of modern national ...

OBJECTIVE This report describes the linkage between the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and air monitoring data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). There have been few linkages of these data sources, partly because of restrictions on releasing geographic detail from NHIS on public-use files in order to protect participant confidentiality. METHODS Pollution exposures f...

BACKGROUND National survey data linked with state cancer registry data has the potential to create a valuable tool for cancer prevention and control research. A pilot project-developed in a collaboration of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Florida Cancer Data System (FCDS) at the University of Miami -links the records of the 1...

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has produced the 1986-2000 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Linked Mortality Files by linking eligible adults in the 1986-2000 NHIS cohorts through probabilistic record linkage to the National Death Index to obtain mortality follow-up through December 31, 2002. The resulting files contain more than 120,000 deaths and an average of 9 years ...

Introduction In 2013, NCHS completed a mortality update for the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) participants for the years 1985 to 2009, with mortality ascertained through December 31, 2011. Due to requirements to protect the confidentiality of the NHIS participants, restricted-use versions of the NHIS Linked Mortality Files were made available only through the NCHS Research Data Center...