Vitamin-D deficiency as a potential indicator of defective placentation in preeclampsia.

Objective: To determine the association of serum Vitamin-D levels and placental laminin expression in pre-eclamptic and normotensive women.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from July 2018 to February 2021, in the Department of Anatomy, Basic Medical Sciences Institute (BMSI) in collaboration with the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics after the approval from Institutional Review Board (IRB), Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre JPMC, Karachi. The placentae were collected from 120 women, segregated into two cohorts as normotensive (NT) (n=60) and pre-eclamptic (PE) (n=60) and serum Vitamin-D levels measured.

A Framework for Improving Parent Satisfaction With the Inpatient Pediatric Admission Process: Experience From a Low-Resource Setting.

The objective for this initiative was to reduce parental anxiety and thus improve their satisfaction related to hospital admission by ensuring that the child's management plan and basic amenities were communicated to the parents within the first hour of arrival at the Children's Hospital inpatient unit. The intervention for this project was developed based on the Theory of Change framework. Effectiveness of the intervention was assessed by comparing change in parent-reported anxiety scores and improvement in patient satisfaction scores at 24 hours post-admission as an indicator of experience.