Background: Back pain is a common patients’ complaint, and its etiology is important because of different potential treatment approaches (based on causes). For a better diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used in clinical settings that may result in inappropriate requests. This study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of the lumbosacral MRI requests in patients with ba...

On-demand access to computing resources asa-service has the potential to allow enterprises to temporarily scale out of their private data center into the infrastructure of a public cloud provider during times of peak demand. However, concerns about privacy and security may limit the adoption of this technique. We describe an approach to partitioning a software application (particularly a client...

The aim of this study was to ascertain the incidence of drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients in Delhi, India, being treated with DOTS and in private clinics, since a large proportion of patients with tuberculosis in India seek help from private healthcare sectors. Sputum samples were collected from 60 cases of tuberculosis attending a DOTS center and 42 patients ...

BACKGROUND Understanding the socioeconomic factors that influence hospitalization and post-discharge metrics after joint replacement is important for identifying key areas of improvement in the delivery of orthopaedic care. METHODS An institutional administrative data set of 2869 patients from an academic arthroplasty referral center was analyzed to quantify the relationship between socioecon...

BACKGROUND Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a recommended model of care for cardiovascular diseases; however, is not widely available and is underutilized, especially in low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVES To identify the CR programs available in one Brazilian state (Minas Gerais; MG) and describe their characteristics by funding type. METHODS In this multi-center descriptive study, ...

OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research activities, highlighting diabetes-related research. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Diabetes is an important component of the VA research portfolio. All four VA research services support aspects of diabetes research. VA diabetes research projects and funding were examined from 1998 to 2003. RESULTS VA scientist...

2Department of Rehabilitation, National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center, 3-1 Aoyama-cho, Kure, Hiroshima, 737-0023, Japan 3Department of Nutrition, National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center, 3-1 Aoyama-cho, Kure, Hiroshima, 737-0023, Japan 4Medical Technologist, National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center and Chugoku ...

1Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Centre, School of Rehabilitation, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran 2Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran 3Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Hearing and Speech Research Ce...

The starting point for this work was: What would be the implications when systems and with them their management systems would become two orders of magnitude larger then they are today? We focus on one problem: How management agents can be automatically deployed in massive amounts (>>10) providing the infrastructure for management and control systems of large-scale virtual data center environme...