total parenteral nutrition (tpn) has a vital role in controlling nutritional deficiencies especially in patients with critical conditions who are confined to bed in intensive care unit (icu). complete evaluation of the nutritional status of these patients is necessary to achieve their nutritional goal. the aim of this investigation was to study the complete blood count (cbc), coagulation parame...

Peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) has been measured hourly from waking to sleeping in 29 workers with respiratory symptoms exposed to the fumes of soft soldering fluxes containing colophony (pine resin). Thirty-nine records of mean length 33 days have been analysed, and the results compared with the occupational history and bronchial provocation testing in the same workers. From plots of daily m...

We read with great interest and appreciation the article by Weis and Levy 1 and the editorial by Koppel 2 in a recent issue of CHEST (March 2014). If we may make additional observations about the day-to-day review of records from those of us that perform health information reviews, there are more problems. One of us is on the faculty at National Jewish Health and consults on many out-of-state p...

the aim of the present study was to estimate the genetic parameters and genetic trends of somatic cell score (scs) in the first 3 lactations of iranian holstein cows by random regression (rr) animal model by using restricted maximum likelihood (reml) method. the data set used in this analysis included observations of 340318 test-day records of 41526 cows in 288 herds; 89969 test-day of 11750 co...

the objective of this research was to estimate the genetic parameters and trend of somatic cell count in holstein cows of iran using test day records. the phenotypic the used data consisted of were consisting of 407167 first lactation test day records the which were collected by the center of animal breeding and livestock production improvement center of iran during 2009 to 2013. somatic cell c...

Test-day genetic evaluation models have many advantages compared with those based on 305-d lactations; however, the possible use of test-day model (TDM) results for herd management purposes has not been emphasized. The aim of this paper was to study the ability of a TDM to predict production for the next test day and for the entire lactation. Predictions of future production and detection of ou...

The National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) is the national Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dataset that records characteristics of individual prosthetic and assistive devices. It remains unknown how well NPPD records can be matched to encounter records for the same individuals in major VA utilization databases. We compared the count of prosthetics records in the NPPD with the count of...

The validity of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was evaluated against four 7-d diet records among 23 men aged 27-70 y. Volunteer women recorded the amounts of all foods and beverages consumed by their husbands or fathers over a period of 7 d in four consecutive seasons in 1997 and 1998, and a self-administered FFQ was answered by each man after completion of the fourth diet record. The die...