Associations between fetal position at delivery and duration of active phase of labor: A historical cohort study.

Introduction: In clinical experience, occiput posterior (OP) position is associated with longer labor duration than occiput anterior (OA) position, but few studies have investigated the association between labor duration and fetal position. We aimed to compare duration of the active phase of labor in OP deliveries with OA deliveries in a contemporary population using survival methods. Secondary aims were to compare the frequencies of operative interventions, obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS), postpartum hemorrhage, and newborn outcomes in OP with OA deliveries.

Information from Noise: Measuring Dyslexia Risk Using Rasch-like Matrix Factorization with a Procedure for Equating Instruments.

This study examines the psychometric properties of a screening protocol for dyslexia and demonstrates a special form of matrix factorization called Nous based on the Alternating Least Squares algorithm. Dyslexia presents an intrinsically multidimensional complex of cognitive loads. By building and enforcing a common 6-dimensional space, Nous extracts a multidimensional signal for each person and item from test data that increases the Shannon entropy of the dataset while at the same time being constrained to meet the special objectivity requirements of the Rasch model.

Female genital cutting in women living in Norway - consequences and treatment.

Background: Seven Norwegian hospitals offer an outpatient service for women who have undergone female genital cutting (FGC). This study presents symptoms, findings and treatment in women who were examined at the outpatient clinics in the period 2004-2015.

Material And Method: Each hospital identified patients by searching for relevant diagnostic and procedure codes.

Periodic Refresher Emails for Emergency Department Mass Casualty Incident Plans.

Audience And Type Of Curriculum: This mass casualty incident (MCI) curriculum is intended for use as refresher content in the months between more formal education, such as hands-on MCI training and drills. The target audience for each topic varies, but the majority of them apply to all disciplines such as direct patient care roles (emergency room technicians, nurses, paramedics, advanced practice practitioners, resident physicians, attending physicians, etc.) and emergency department clerks/coordinators.