background: multi drug resistant (mdr) pseudomonas and acinetobacter species are defined as resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics. most studies have demonstrated that mdr gram negative infections convey increased mortality and morbidity. case: an 11-year –old girl was admitted to pediatric burns unit with burn injury of approximately 68% total body surface area (tbsa). discussion: ...

Pan African Medical Journal. 2013 16:89 doi:10.11604/pamj.2013.16.89.2782 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/16/89/full © George Thomas et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), w...

The authors describe a patient-centered method for teaching evidence-based medicine that is part of the inpatient morning report for pediatrics residents at the University of Illinois at Chicago. With library support, residents search for evidence to answer their own questions about patients, and present it at morning report

BACKGROUND The goal of medical research is to develop interventions that are in some sense superior, with respect to patient outcome, to interventions currently in use. Similarly, the goal of research in methodological computational statistics is to develop data analysis tools that are themselves superior to the existing tools. The methodology of the evaluation of medical interventions continue...

background self-esteem is a stable sense of personal worthiness. there is insufficient evidence from the available research to fully determine the relationship between self-esteem and early trauma. objectives this is a correlational study aims to investigate the relationship between early traumas as a predictor of negative self-esteem by controlling the effect of maladaptive schemas in 11-13 ye...

evidence-based medicine is becoming an important s of human life span, which crucial developmental processes occur. since peers play a critical role in the psychosocial development of most adolescents, peer education is currently considered as a health promotion strategy in adolescents. peer education is defined as a system of delivering knowledge that improves social learning and provides psyc...