background: carbon dioxide (co 2 ) is one of the most commonly used indicators of indoor air quality (iaq) in industrial area. the higher concentration level of co 2 and particulate matter (pm 10 ) in day care centre could affect children’s health. the objective of this study was to assess children’s health symptom, and measure the co 2 and pm 10 concentration level as iaq parameters in differe...

BackgroundWe examined whether a context and process-sensitive ‘intelligent’ checklist increases compliance with best practice compared paper during intensive care ward rounds.MethodsWe conducted single-centre prospective before-and-after mixed-method trial in 35 bed medical surgical ICU. Daily ICU rounds were observed two periods of 8 weeks. We checklists (control) dynamic (digital) clinical (D...

BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases are major causes of morbidity for young children, particularly for those children attending child day care centers (DCCs). Although both diseases are presumed to cause considerable societal costs for care and treatment of illness, the extent of these costs, and the difference of these costs between children that do and do not attend such cent...

BACKGROUND Day care centre (DCC) attendees play a central role in maintaining the circulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) in the population. Exposure within families and within DCCs are the main risk factors for colonisation with pneumococcal serotypes in DCC attendees. METHODS Transmission of serotype specific carriage was analysed with a continuous time event history model, b...

AIM OF THE STUDY To assess quality of life (QoL) in cancer patients treated at home, at an in-patient palliative care unit (PCU), and at a day care center (DCC). PATIENTS AND METHODS QoL was assessed in advanced cancer patients at baseline and after 7 days of symptomatic treatment using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 15-Pallia...

BACKGROUND Day-care centre (DCC) attendees play a central role in maintaining the circulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) in the population. The prevalence of pneumococcal carriage is highest in DCC attendees but varies across countries and is found to be consistently lower in Finland than in Portugal. We compared key parameters underlying pneumococcal transmission in DCCs to und...

In 1999, Engelen and coworkers investigated colonization in Amsterdam among 259 children attending 16 day-care centers (DCCs) and among 276 children who did not attend day-care centers (NDCCs). A 1.6- to 3.4-fold increased risk for nasopharyngeal colonization was observed in children attending DCCs compared with NDCC children, while no difference in antibiotic resistance was found between group...

Repeated measures data for rotavirus infection in children within 14 day care centres (DCCs) in the Oxfordshire area, UK, are used to explore aspects of rotavirus transmission and immunity. A biologically realistic model for the transmission of infection is presented as a set of probability models suitable for application to the data. Two transition events are modelled separately: incidence and...

A report from the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) / Regional eScience Collaborative Workshop, held at the eScience Institute in Edinburgh on June 12, 2008. The DCC is committed to forging and strengthening links between the digital preservation and eScience communities via its eScience Liaison team. This event was the fifth in a series of workshops which are being arranged throughout the UK, with...