OBJECTIVES To examine the most frequent admitted polyclinics, diagnoses, and the costs of Syrian refugee patient in a Turkish university hospital in the metropolitan city of Istanbul, Western part of Turkey.  METHODS Research methodology consist of analyzing outpatient admissions to the Hospital Polyclinics of Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey from January...

Three autoanalysers, the EPOS 5060, ERIS 6170 and the Analyst, were evaluated for their adequacy for use in laboratories attached to Saudi 'polyclinics'. All the analysers showed comparable within-batch imprecision. The Analyst was found to be the most useful because it was simple and practical and because its throughput time was faster than the other two analysers. The EPOS 5060 would be more ...

BACKGROUND First described in 1872, syringomas are common intraepidermal sweat gland tumors most often found in women during adolescence. Frequent involvement areas are the lower eyelids and malar areas; vulvar involvement is relatively rare. These lesions often appear as small, separate, yellowish papules of about 1-3 mm in size and are generally associated with increased vulvar discomfort and...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate health literacy levels of patients in Almaty City, Kazakhstan and to identify socio-demographics and socio-economic factors related to their health literacy. METHODS An international survey instrument HLS-EU-Q developed by the European Health Literacy Consortium was used in a cross-sectional study with 1000 citizens in the Almaty City at the age of 18 a...

This paper presents an integrated physician and clinic scheduling problem arising in ambulatory cancer treatment polyclinics, where patients may be assessed by multiple physicians from different clinics in a single visit. The problem focuses on assigning clinic sessions and their associated physicians to shifts in a finite planning horizon. The complexity of this problem stems from the fact tha...

This study to document the prevalence and some epidemiological features of gastrointestinal impaction in cattle and buffaloes was conducted by undertaking key informant interview (interviews of farmers and visits to dairy farms), case study analysis (observation of cases registered under randomly selected state veterinary hospitals and polyclinics) and retrospective study in various parts of Pu...