OBJECTIVES In view of forthcoming 'payment by results' (PbR) for mental health, increasing number of National Health Service (NHS) Trusts are reorganizing their community services for working age adults to create care pathways. However, research base for the care pathways model in mental health is limited. Our NHS Foundation Trust was one of the first to introduce care pathways for community ps...

C oronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA) use is growing rapidly, and multiple studies have shown its value in improving patient care. However, CTA providers range across the cardiology and radiology specialties and have developed their own styles of reporting. This can bring some variability in the way test results are reported. The presence of a common lexicon linking reporting phrases...

Infections of gastrointestinal tract are the most frequent diseases worldwide. Infectious diarrhea is a major public health problem and remains one important causes morbidity mortality among infants children especially in developing countries. The symptoms gastroenteritis include vomiting which may lead to severe dehydration even death. aim this study was identify some diarrheal pathogen under ...

In 1992, in Srinagar, India, the Pediatric Outpatient Department of the Institute of Medical Sciences interviewed the parents of 1600 infants with acute diarrhea to learn their awareness and practices in infantile diarrhea. The parents were divided into two groups: Group A (physicians, engineers, teachers, professors, lawyers, clerks, and educated business professionals; N = 660) and Group B (...

Until the early 1970s, the cause of most gastroenteritis was unknown. Cases were attributed to the known infectious agents, mainly bacteria, and many other causes, including teething, weaning, diet, old age, drugs, and malnutrition. In 1972, immune electron microscopy of fecal specimens derived from an outbreak at a school in Norwalk, Ohio, USA, resulted in the identification of Norwalk virus, ...

INTRODUCTION Topical benzocaine is a local anesthetic commonly used to relieve pain caused by teething, periodontal irritation, burns, wounds, and insect bites. Oral preparations may contain benzocaine concentrations ranging from 7.5% to 20%. Pediatric exposure to such large concentrations may result in methemoglobinemia and secondarily cause anemia, cyanosis, and hypoxia. METHODS This is a r...

BACKGROUND Abdominal colic is common in infants but generally harmless. The exact aetiology is unknown but it has been associated with vicious cycle of crying and swallowing of air by the infant. The excessive crying associated with it can result in a lot of distress for family members creating unnecessary panics. We sought to find the perception and management of abdominal colic by mothers in ...