The ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species) are the leading cause of nosocomial infections throughout the world. Most of them are multidrug resistant isolates, which is one of the greatest challenges in clinical practice. Multidrug resistance is amongst the top three threats ...

BACKGROUND Ceftriaxone is one of the most common empirical antibiotics prescribed at emergency rooms in Thailand. Inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics have been frequently reported. The authors aimed to study factors that determine the appropriateness ofceftriaxone usage at an emergency room ofa university hospital in Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted a...

The great danger in computer implementation of approximate reasoning is the use of inappropriate, unjustified, ad hoc models. Newcomers in the domain of commonsense reasoning could be overwhelmed by the multitude of models. Their reaction could be either to accept one of them and use it in every context or to use all of them somehow at random. Both attitudes are wrong. The stubborn use of one m...

It is shown that the " retrodiction paradox " recently introduced by Peres arises not because of the fallacy of the time-symmetric approach as he claimed, but due to an inappropriate usage of retrodiction.