L. Samal1; TA. Stavroudis2; RE. Miller3; HP. Lehmann4; CU. Lehmann5,* 1Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brighman and Women's Hospital; 2Division of Newborn and Critical Care, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles; 3Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; 4Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; 5Divi...

We have constructed Envismo (energy-visualization-mobility), a prototype of a real-time energy-monitoring platform that pairs common mobile Internet devices (Nokia N810 internet tablets) with cheap, readily available environmental sensors and a webbased datastore tied to an existing energy-monitoring network. This allows for the collection of real-time fine-grained environmental and energy usag...

Objective: To determine the frequency of missed medications and its association with glycemic control among patients diabetes mellitus.
 Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Outpatient Department Medicine, Pakistan Institute Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan, from January 2022 to June 2022. Patients type-1 or type-2 mellitus who visited outpatient department had a d...

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BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the impact of an empowerment program on maternal stress. MATERIALS AND METHODS During May 2009-May 2010, this quasi-experimental study was performed in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Shahid Akbarabadi, Rasoul-e-Akram, and Aliasghar Hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Iran). The program consists of an educational C...

BACKGROUND Therapeutic hypothermia reduces death and disability after moderate or severe neonatal encephalopathy in high-income countries and is used as standard therapy in these settings. However, the safety and efficacy of cooling therapy in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where 99% of the disease burden occurs, remains unclear. We will examine whether whole body cooling reduces dea...

Regionalization of health care is a method of providing high-quality, cost-efficient health care to the largest number of patients. Within pediatric medicine, regionalization has been undertaken in 2 areas: neonatal intensive care and pediatric trauma care. The supporting literature for the regionalization of these areas demonstrates the range of studies within this field: studies of neonatal i...

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INTRODUCTION Prolonged rupture of membrane (PROM) is an important risk factor for early onset neonatal sepsis (EONS), which is associated with increased neonatal morbidity and mortality. We reported the incidence and associated risk factors of PROM for culture-proven EONS. METHODOLOGY The medical records of all neonates born at Aga Khan University, Karachi over a period of five years (2007-20...

neonatal tetanus (nt) is a leading cause of neonatal mortality in many parts of the world. tetanus is a vaccine-preventable disease and is second only to measles worldwide as a cause of childhood mortality. in this study the various irnrnunoglobulin classes of anti-tetanus antibody in the sera of 105 iranian women of childbearing age (13-45 years) were titrated by enzyme linked immunosorbent as...