BRIDGE # # Bridge = 1 week introduction to the clinical blocks. (Dotted lines denote 4 week segments within a block) Other than the two week vacation period over the Christmas and New Years Holidays vacation period each year, students are expected to assume the professional responsibilities of the service on which they are rotating. There will be no set days off for Memorial Day, July 4, Labor ...

This study aims to examine the effect of Islamic religious holidays on stock returns in Indonesian Capital Market. Indonesia consist Eid al-Fitr, al-Adha, Isra Miraj, Maulid Nabi Muhammad SAW and Hijri New Year. The used a different test, with non-parametric Wilcoxon signed rank test because data were not normally distributed. research uses Composite Stock Price Index (CSPI) for period 2006 202...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial stress might trigger myocardial infarction (MI). Increased MI incidence coincides with recurrent time periods during the year perceived as particularly stressful in the population. METHODS A stress-triggering hypothesis on the risk of MI onset was investigated with Swedish population data on MI hospital admission date and symptom onset date (N=156,690; 148,176) as regi...

Child contact is a recognised risk factor for adult pneumococcal disease. Peaks in invasive pneumococcal disease incidence observed during winter holidays may be related to changes in social dynamics. This analysis was conducted to examine adult pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) incidence during school holiday periods. Between September 2008 and 2013, consecutive adults admitted t...

OBJECTIVE To determine the patterns,complications and casualties of road traffic accidents in North West of Iran during 2013 New Year holidays. METHODS One hundred and eighty one patients with trauma-related vehicle crashes were investigated in a cross sectional-descriptive study. We only included those road traffic accidents which were recorded during the 2013 Iranian New Year holidays. Seve...

To investigate whether calendrical information influences the occurrence of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, we statistically compared the incidence of intracerebral hemorrhage for inpatients at Teraoka Memorial Hospital (164 patients), against various calendrical factors such as the day of the week, national holidays, and RokuYo (a recurring six-day series of lucky and unlucky days in the...

BACKGROUND Patient non-attendance is an expensive and persistent problem worldwide with rates between 5-39% reported in the literature. The objective of the study was to assess whether there is a higher incidence of non-attendance in a hospital-based pain clinic during the period of the Jewish High Holidays (Rosh-Hashanah to Sukkot) and whether this is further compounded by other factors, such ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the epidemiology of paediatric patients sustaining supracondylar humeral fractures, to identify common mechanisms of injury and to corroborate the anecdotal evidence that fractures occur more frequently during school holidays. METHODS All paediatric patients who presented to the accident and emergency department with a supracondylar distal ...