BACKGROUND In June of 2010, an antenatal ultrasound program to perform basic screening for high-risk pregnancies was introduced at a community health care center in rural Uganda. Whether the addition of ultrasound scanning to antenatal visits at the health center would encourage or discourage potential patients was unknown. Our study sought to evaluate trends in the numbers of antenatal visits ...

BACKGROUND COPD is a complex disease with exacerbations characterized by worsening of symptoms resulting in deteriorating lung function. STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess predictive factors of relapse for patients with acute exacerbations of COPD (AECB). DESIGN Retrospective cohort analysis of visits for AECB. SETTING Veterans Affairs Medical Center. PATIENTS Three hundred sixty-two visits (173...

OBJECTIVES The number of paediatric patients visiting the emergency department (ED) continues to rise. In South Korea, approximately 25% of the patients who visit the ED are paediatric patients. In the USA, about 20% of the paediatric population were found to have visited the ED in the past year. A recent study demonstrated that 4.5%-8% of patients account for 25% of all ED visits. Therefore, t...

Patients with newly found raised blood pressure are known to have lower pressures at subsequent measurements even when not treated. A study was undertaken to determine the extent to which (a) the number offollow-up measurements and (b) the duration of the intervals between them contributed to this fall in pressure. In 42 general practices 110 patients were identified as having for the first tim...

Background: COPD is a complex disease with exacerbations characterized by worsening of symptoms resulting in deteriorating lung function. Study objective: To assess predictive factors of relapse for patients with acute exacerbations of COPD (AECB). Design: Retrospective cohort analysis of visits for AECB. Setting: Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Patients: Three hundred sixty-two visits (173 pa...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of a quality improvement (QI) program in reducing asthma emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, limitation of physical activity, patient missed school, and parent missed work. METHODS Urban, low-income patients with asthma from 4 zip codes were identified through logs of ED visits or hospitalizations, and...

Objective. To characterize the pediatric endocrinologists' evaluation and followup of short-statured patients. Study Design. Observational study of 21,548 short-statured children (April 1996 to December 1999). Baseline demographics, laboratory testing, height standard deviation score (SDS), target height, and height relative to target height were analyzed at initial and return visits with the s...

New elements have been added to the picture that appears be composed of many different languages, religions and nationalities in Ottoman social structure, with migrations from Caucasus, Crimea Balkans since 19th century. One among them is Turkish Muslim Crimean people. With this research; Examining policies adopted by Empire settlement Tatars, support they provided immigrants during resettlemen...

M online shoppers initially acquired through paid search advertising later return to the same website directly. These so-called “direct type-in” visits can be an important indirect effect of paid search. Because visitors come to sites via different keywords and can vary in their propensity to make return visits, traffic at the keyword level is likely to be heterogeneous with respect to how much...

North African desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, are established model organisms in animal navigation research. Cataglyphis re-visit plentiful feeding sites, but their decision to return to a feeder and the organization of food searches has been little studied. Here we provide a review of recent advances regarding this topic. At least two parameters determine the ants' assessment of site quality,...