BACKGROUND Despite a well-described association of age and injury with mortality and decreased functional status, inpatient mortality studies have traditionally not included analysis of do not resuscitate (DNR) status. We hypothesized that the increased likelihood of DNR status in older patients alters age-adjusted mortality rates in trauma. METHODS The trauma registry was queried for adult p...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) affects the quality of life (QoL) of millions of people worldwide (Rosen et al., 2004; Aytac et al., 1999; National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Panel on Impotence, 1993). Nowadays, QoL measurements have become an important health status indicator in determining the general health of a person. ED affects a man’s self-esteem, relationships with sexual part...

Ecological networks are a useful tool to study the complexity of biotic interactions at a community level. Advances in the understanding of network patterns encourage the application of a network approach in other disciplines than theoretical ecology, such as biodiversity conservation. So far, however, practical applications have been meagre. Here we present a framework for network analysis to ...

OBJECTIVES We examined how different types of health information-seeking behaviors (HISBs)-no use, illness information only, wellness information only, and illness and wellness information combined-are associated with health risk factors and health indicators to determine possible motives for health information seeking. METHODS A sample of 559 Seattle-Tacoma area adults completed an Internet-...

BACKGROUND All aspects of the heath care sector are being asked to account for their performance. This poses unique challenges for local public health units with their traditional focus on population health and their emphasis on disease prevention, health promotion and protection. Reliance on measures of health status provides an imprecise and partial picture of the performance of a health unit...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to develop an index that can rank welding workplace that associate well with possible health risk of welders. METHODS Welding Fumes Health Index (WFHI) were developed based on data from case studies conducted in Plant 1 and Plant 2. Personal sampling of welding fumes to assess the concentration of metal constituents along with series of lung function tests was cond...

posteriormente leveriracetam y gabapentina en el manejo del status epiléptico en pacientes con PAI. Sin embargo, ningún fármaco debiera ser descartado por completo si su uso resultase esencial. Con frecuencia tras el diagnóstico nos encontramos con fármacos considerados no seguros sin efectos adversos. No obstante, es importante recordar su posible interacción futura con otros fármacos que pudi...

With the introduction of the Internet, many people saw the beginning of a new era; an era of democratization, of status equalization, and of freedom of speech for everyone. The accessibility of other places and people via the medium of computers, as well as the absence of many social and status cues, would make it possible for people to reach out to other people across the national and social b...

Finding of two undescribed species, closely related to Eresiomera paradoxa (Schultze, 1917) in Liberia and the Democratic Repubic of Congo led the authors to revise the material available in the African Butterfly Reserarch Institute (ABRI), Nairobi. Examination of the material revealed that the placement of E. paradoxa and the related species neither in the genus Eresiomera Clench, 1965, nor in...

s. The third ALR goal of using research to inform policy and practice was achieved by having policy makers on the program, attracting 33 % of attendees from policy, practice, and advocacy backgrounds and giving the annual Translating Research to Policy Award. A panel presentation featured multi-sector childhood obesity and active living programs that use research and evaluation to guide their e...