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OBJECTIVE To examine the epidemiological features of pediatric injuries related to falls from windows. METHODS By using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, emergency department (ED) data for pediatric injury cases associated with window falls in 1990-2008 were reviewed. RESULTS An estimated 98 415 children (95% confidence interval [CI]: 82 416-114 419) were treated in US hos...

PURPOSE Diabetes self-management education (DSME) is the cornerstone in effective management of diabetes. The continuous quality improvement process was used to identify the problem, collect and analyze data, and develop and implement a DSME program for Medicaid recipients, and subsequently, the program was evaluated to assess its effectiveness. METHODS A DSME program consisting of a 1-hour i...

BACKGROUND A national smoking cessation campaign based on behaviour change theory and operating through both traditional and new media was launched across England during late 2012 ('Stoptober'). In addition to attempting to start a movement in which smokers would quit at the same time in response to a positive mass quitting trigger, the campaign set smokers the goal of being smoke-free for Octo...

An 11-year single-center study from China Chenran Zhang, MD, Liuhua Hu, MD, Xuehua Ding, MD, PhD,Jinxiang Huang, MDand Guohan Hu, MD, PHD Department of Neurosurgery, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China. Department of Cardiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; Chenran Zhang and Liuhua Hu ...

BACKGROUND There are concerns that pre-operative psychological distress might be associated with reduced patient satisfaction after total hip replacement (THR). METHODS We investigated this in a multi-centre prospective study between January 1999 and January 2002. We dichotomised the patients into the mentally distressed (MHS ≤ 56) and the not mentally distressed (MHS > 56) groups based on th...

BACKGROUND Ultrasonography (US) at the medical student level is developing. As clinical skills and simulation centers expand, US equipment miniaturizes, and more students are exposed to ultrasound; a digital portfolio comprised of US images and videos may be useful in demonstrating experience and possibly competency. METHODS Medical students participated in US curricula consisting of didactic...

Background: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is one of the greatest social health problems in many communities in the twenty-first century. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) could decrease HIV infection among injection drug users (IDU). The main aim of this paper was to determine the cost-effectiveness of the governmental MMT program to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) i...