PURPOSE Medication discrepancies are defined as unexplained differences among regimens across different sites of care. The problem of medication discrepancies that occur during the entire care pathway from hospital admission to a local care setting discharge (namely all types of settings dedicated to formal care other than hospitals) has received little attention in the medical literature. The ...

INTRODUCTION Selective reporting bias occurs when chance or selective outcome reporting rather than the intervention contributes to group differences. The prevailing concern about selective reporting bias is the possibility of results being modified towards specific conclusions. In this study, we evaluate randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in hematology journals, a group in which sel...

Balancing the requirements of high quality data and timely completion of a clinical study is thankless task. On one hand the data must accurately reflect the trial conducted and on the other hand are the business needs that must be considered. Given enough time, all clinical trials would be able to have very high quality data with few if any errors. However, this is not a luxury that many will ...

An important kind of semantic conflicts arising in database interoperability are schematic discrepancies, where data in one database correspond to metadata in another. We present a general solution to these discrepancies, based on a framework of two dimensions: generalization and aggregation. Operations to transform metadata into data and vice versa are defined, in the relational model and in a...

OBJECTIVE To characterize discrepancies between transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) measurements and total serum bilirubin (TSB) levels among newborns receiving care at multiple nursery sites across the United States. METHODS Medical records were reviewed to obtain data on all TcB measurements collected during two 2-week periods on neonates admitted to participating newborn nurseries. Data on TSB ...

In the paper, there are analyzed and compared results of usable methods for discrepancies detection based on character n-gram profiles (the set of character n-gram normalized frequencies of a text) for English and Arabic documents. English and Arabic texts were analyzed from many statistical characteristics point of view. We covered some statistical differences between both languages and we app...

antibiotic resistance of intensive care unit (icu) born aerobic gram-negative bacteria was evaluated during a six months period at a teaching hospital in tehran, and determination of the validity of the results obtained from disc diffusion tests, using discs manufactured in iran. disc susceptibility tests using iranian and standard discs (diffusion discs available in international markets) were...

background. this study aimed to evaluate whether the parents’ knowledge about the adverse effects of oral habits and dentoskeletal discrepancies would improve by an educational pamphlet. methods. a parallel-group randomized clinical trial was conducted on parents in kindergartens of shiraz, iran, 2013. the parents completed a designed questionnaire to determine the pre-intervention score. the s...

Let F be a field complete for a real valuation. It is a standard result in valuation theory that a finite extension of F admits a valuation basis if and only if it is without defect. We show that even otherwise, one can construct bases in which the discrepancy between measuring valuation an element versus on the components in its basis decomposition can be made arbitrarily small. The key step i...

Human rabies is an ancient disease but in modern times has primarily been associated with dog rabies-endemic countries of Asia and Africa. From an African perspective, the inevitable and tragic consequences of rabies require serious reflection of the factors that continue to drive its neglect. Established as a major disease only after multiple introductions during the colonial era, rabies conti...