INTRODUCTION Problems with polypharmacy, adverse drug reactions and non-adherence are especially frequent among elderly nursing home residents. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to evaluate effectiveness of a specific form of staff education on appropriateness of prescribing in a cluster of nursing homes for the elderly. METHODS The study was designed as before-and-after trial of education...

BACKGROUND STOPP/START was formulated to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs) in older people. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of PIP and PPO in older Irish patients in residential care using STOPP/START. METHODS data were collected prospectively from seven publicly funded nursing homes within the Munster Reg...

Introduction: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains a common gastrointestinal disease in preterm infants. Inappropriate bacterial colonization of the gut, together with enteral formula feeding, predispose to NEC in both preterm infants and preterm pigs. Regardless, it remains unclear how and when to manipulate the gut microbiota (e.g. by use of pre-, proor antibiotics) to improve mucosal immu...

Modern text collections often contain large documents which span several subject areas. Such documents are problematic for relevance feedback since inappropriate terms can easily be chosen. This study explores the highly eeective approach of feeding back passages of large documents. A less-expensive method which discards long documents is also reviewed and found to be eeective if there are enou...

Caries that affects children under 72 months of age is called Early Childhood (ECC). The high caries prevalence rate which reaches 81.5% in aged 3-4 years still a problem for Indonesia. One the reasons incidence preschoolers inappropriate pattern breastfeeding or formula feeding. purpose this study was to analyze relationship between patterns feeding and ECC preschool Ketileng Village, Todanan,...

BACKGROUND Breastfeeding is a gift from mother to child and has a wide range of positive health, social and cultural impacts on infants. The link between bottle feeding and the prevalence of early childhood caries (ECC) is well documented. In Aboriginal communities, the higher rates of ECC are linked with low rates of breast feeding and inappropriate infant feeding of high sugar content liquids...