The study population comprised all persons who were screened as contacts of patients with TB between January 2000 and December 2009, at TB clinics within the Sydney West and Sydney South West Area Health Services. Contact screening and management in this jurisdiction is guided by state policy directives. Cases of active TB among the study population were identified by linking a database contain...

Drug delivery schedules are key factors in the efficacy of cancer therapies, and mathematical modeling of population dynamics and treatment responses can be applied to identify better drug administration regimes as well as provide mechanistic insights. To capitalize on the promise of this approach, the cancer field must meet the challenges of moving this type of work into clinics.

INTRODUCTION Physicians are continually encouraged to be more productive while providing higher levels of patient satisfaction. It is a common presumption that the two goals are somewhat exclusive-that higher productivity must entail a sacrifice in patient satisfaction or vice versa. Moreover, physicians seeking tested, evidence-based approaches to improving satisfaction have had relatively lit...

BACKGROUND Immunization rate is one of the best public health outcome and service indicators of the last 100 years. Parental decisions regarding immunization are very important to improve immunization rate. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between parental knowledge-practices (KP) and children's immunization completeness. METHODS A mixed method has been utilized in this s...