OBJECTIVE In order to support policy planning, nurses in Queensland were surveyed three times over a 7-year period. Results from the study offered the opportunity to explore changes in work practices with respect to career breaks and retirement intentions. DESIGN A self-administered postal survey. SETTING Nurse members of the Queensland Nurses Union residing in the State of Queensland. PA...

OBJECTIVE To analyze mortality from suicide in children, adolescents and youth aged 5 to 24 years by gender, method used, place where the incident occurred and residence (province) in Argentina over the period 2005-2007. METHOD Data of Statistical Death Reports were used. Mortality rates from suicide were estimated per 100 000 inhabitants using ICD-10 (X60- X84). The statistical method includ...

INTRODUCTION Understanding baseline epidemiology of intussusception (IS) in different geographical settings is important for the safety assessment of rotavirus vaccines. This paper presents IS surveillance data from Singapore between 1997 and 2007, including the period between November 2005 and December 2007 when rotavirus vaccines (primarily Rotarix) were available to newborns in Singapore. ...

Australia-wide surveillance of all human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) is performed by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry (ANCJDR), since establishment in October 1993. During the surveillance period 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008, the ANCJDR received 78 new suspect case notifications of TSEs (67 in 2007, 13 in 2008). This level of suspect case notifica...

Objective: We wanted to look at the antibiotic resistance patterns in our university teaching hospital for E. coli cultured from urine to assess the resistance profiles to common antibiotics used in the hospital. Patients and methods: Results were obtained of all positive urine cultures between January 2007 and December 2011 both from the hospital and urology department. Trends in susceptibilit...

The Victorian Sentinel Practice Influenza Network conducts syndromic surveillance for influenza-like illness (ILI), with testing for laboratory confirmation of a proportion of cases at the discretion of general practitioners. The aim of this study was to evaluate the consistency of sentinel general practitioners' swabbing practice within and between influenza seasons. Aggregated, weekly, non-id...

INTRODUCTION colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies in developed countries. Data on specific and 10-year survival are scarce. This study analyzes overall and disease-specific survival for patients with colorectal cancer and assesses the value of clinical factors on disease-specific survival. METHODS a retrospective cohort study of newly diagnosed invasive colorectal cancer c...

In 2012, the Brazilian Ministry of Education launched the National Pact of Literacy at the Right Age (Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa [PNAIC]). The PNAIC’s goal is ambitious. It seeks to improve the literacy skills of 6to 8-year-olds in public schools throughout Brazil. The government’s decision to implement this literacy intervention nationally in the first three grades of pri...

background: endoscopic ultrasonography (eus) has a pivotal role in staging and diagnosis of different gastrointestinal (gi) disorders. although this equipment is not readily available and not all gastroenterologists are trained in this technique, the importance and efficacy of this imaging modality is obvious for all gastroenterologists. we report the indications and prevalence of lesions visua...