PURPOSE Studies undertaken in England and Scotland have identified a decrease in the number of circumcision operations being performed during childhood. The aims of this study were two-fold. Firstly, to determine the trend in circumcision operations performed in boys in Northern Ireland over a ten year period. Secondly, to compare the number of operations performed by paediatric surgeons with t...

BACKGROUND The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) has been falling in many developed countries; however, there is a trend of an increasing proportion of TB among the elderly. The aim of this study was to evaluate the age transition of patients with TB in Taiwan from 1957 to 2001. METHODS Data on the number of TB cases and patient age were collected from the National Tuberculosis Registry for thre...

Coastal areas are one of the most threatened natural systems in world. Environmental beach indicators, such as erosion and deposition rates exposed beaches Andalusia (640 km), were calculated using upper limit active profile detailed orthophotos (1:2500) for periods 1956–1977, 1977–2001 2001–2011. A hybrid classification method, both supervised unsupervised, based on machine-learning (ML) techn...

OXA-48 beta-lactamase producers are emerging as an important threat mostly in the Mediterranean area. We report here the molecular epidemiology of a collection of OXA-48 beta-lactamase-positive enterobacterial isolates (n=107) recovered from European and north-African countries between January 2001 and December 2011. This collection included 67 Klebsiella pneumoniae, 24 Escherichia coli and 10 ...

OBJECTIVE Mortality in the psychiatric population, both from natural and unnatural causes, is higher than in the general population and this is despite an improvement in the delivery of care and treatment of mental illness in recent years. The study was conducted to determine a profile of mortality and standardized mortality rates within our psychiatric hospital. METHOD A retrospective clinic...

OBJECTIVES We sought to analyze trends in admissions and to describe therapies used for acute Kawasaki disease over a 6-year period. METHODS The Pediatric Health Information System provides patient data including demographic variables, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision codes, and services billed to patients. Patient identifiers enable tracking of medication use in and a...