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A study of the 'appropriateness' of 267 consecutive emergency admissions to a district paediatric department showed that admission was at a peak in the evening and night time. Breathing difficulty, head injury, and fever were the commonest presenting problems. Sixty three per cent of admissions occurred between 6 pm and 8 am and these were more likely to be after self referral to the accident a...

Introduction A systematic review attempts to comprehensively and reproducibly collect, appraise, and synthesize all available empirical evidence that meets pre-defined criteria in order to answer a research question. The quantitative combination and statistical synthesis of the systematically-collected data is what defines a meta-analysis. Here, we first attempt to delineate the basic steps for...

Vomiting is a commonly reported symptom in infants less than three months of age. There are a multitude of pathologies to consider, both within and outside the gastrointestinal tract. In addition to conducting a thorough history and physical examination, a clinician formulates a reasonable differential diagnosis by consideration of two main factors: the infant's age and the characterization of ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The purpose of this review is to summarize recommendations for the safe and efficient conductance of sedation and anesthesia at remote locations; and to define safety standards, monitoring techniques, quality of care and procedural eligibility. RECENT FINDINGS Anesthesia outside of the operating room is rapidly increasing in numbers, which has seen a growth of older and sick...

Portable chest radiography is a fundamental and frequently utilized examination in the critically ill patient population. The chest radiograph often represents a timely investigation of new or rapidly evolving clinical findings and an evaluation of proper positioning of support tubes and catheters. Thoughtful consideration of the use of this simple yet valuable resource is crucial as medical co...

The purpose of this paper is to present a review Augmented Reality (AR) technology as an educational tool for foreign language education. Following short yet comprehensive literature review, the reviews AR in terms learning theories, pedagogies, teachers, students, culture, infrastructure, and sustainability based on framework developed by Osterweil et al. (2016) evaluating appropriateness use ...

This is a review of the National Marine Mammal Laboratory's (NMML) Steller sea lion telemetry program. The scope of the review was to focus on four important aspects of the program: The appropriateness of the programming and deployment strategies; the appropriateness of the methods used to retrieve and manage telemetry data obtained from Service Argos; the appropriateness of the stage-based fil...

This  study  examined  the  effects  of  individual  difference  (ID)  factors  on  changing  pragmatic abilities  among  L2  learners  of  English.  Participants  were  48  Japanese  EFL  students  in  an English-medium  university  in  Japan.  They  completed  a  pragmatic  speaking  test  (k=12)  that assessed  their  ability  to  produce  two  speech  acts:  requests  and  opinions,  in  hi...

A CDSS generates a high number of inappropriate alerts that interrupt the clinical workflow. As result, clinicians silence, disable, or ignore alerts, thereby undermining patient safety. Therefore, effectiveness and appropriateness need to be evaluated. systematic review was carried out identify factors affect alert in supporting Seven electronic databases (PubMed, Scopus, ACM, Science Direct, ...