The DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks Project aims to offer domain-specific advice on standards relevant to digital preservation and curation, to help curators identify which standards they should be using and where they can be appropriately implemented, to ensure authoritative digital material. The Project uses the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model and Web 2.0 technology, to present standards framew...

BACKGROUND Due to clinical benefits, delayed cord clamping (DCC) is recommended in infants born before 37 weeks gestational age. The objective was to institute a delayed cord clamping program and to evaluate clinical outcomes one year after initiation. METHODS This study occured at Christiana Care Health System, a tertiary care facility with a 52 bed level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU...

Outbreaks of diarrhea in child day-care centers (DCC) are common. This study was undertaken to evaluate the molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of diarrhea due to Shigella sonnei. This outbreak involved 25 of 52 (48%) DCC children and 14 of 132 (11%) teachers and household contacts. S. sonnei isolates from nine children and five contacts were characterized by antimicrobial susceptibility, pla...

In a 6-year prospective epidemiological intervention study the spread of pneumococci non-susceptible to penicillin (PNSP) was studied among children attending day-care centres (DCCs). A primary aim was to investigate whether there was a risk for spread of PNSP by permitting children carrying PNSP strains to remain in the DCC. Carriers were followed until they presented negative cultures. The PN...

OBJECTIVES To measure the quality of care for patients with diabetes mellitus at the outpatient clinics from 12 general practitioners clinics (GPC) and one diabetes care clinic (DCC). METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted at the Al-Razi Health Center, Manama, Bahrain, and health records from January to December 2012 were reviewed. The study consisted of 120 patients from GPC, and 80 p...

PURPOSE Globally, prostate cancer treatment and outcomes for men vary according to where they live, their race and the care they receive. The TrueNTH Global Registry project was established as an international registry monitoring care provided to men with localised prostate cancer (CaP). PARTICIPANTS Sites with existing CaP databases in Movember fundraising countries were invited to participa...

In our ongoing studies of trimethoprim resistance (Tmpr) in day-care centers (DCC), we have shown a high rate of fecal colonization with Tmpr Escherichia coli and, using total plasmid content analysis, have shown that this is due to a diversity of strains. In the present study, we analyzed 367 highly Tmpr (MIC, greater than or equal to 2,000 micrograms/ml) isolates of E. coli from 72 children o...

in order to identify the prevalence of parasitic intestinal infections and to determine the impact of some factors, such as age, health houses, education, environmental health etc, on infection, this survey was carried out on 461 stool specimens and scotch tapes obtained from children resident in day-care centers in damghan city, semnan province, iran. the samples were tested using formalin-eth...