The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scoring system is used to prioritize liver transplantations and assess disease severity. This includes the international normalized ratio (INR), creatinine, and total bilirubin. Since there are several ways to measure creatinine, MELD scores can produce inconsistent results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Due to the limited access of clients in non-urban areas to rehabilitation and the difficulty of specialized counseling in such conditions, the need for telehealth services has increased. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Tele occupational therapy in common disorders of children and adolescents.
Methods: In this systematic review study, a research method published from 2010 to 2022 focusing on the effectiveness of tele-rehabilitation and its impact on children and adolescents with different physical disabilities was done in Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus and EMBASE databases.
Background: The concept of critical value is not evident in surgical pathology, and there is no established protocol for determining, reporting, and documenting these results.
Materials And Methods: A questionnaire was designed regarding critical value in surgical pathology, and all pathologists and some clinicians from five laboratories were asked to participate through an invitation link. The most important items were selected, and all pathologists were instructed to follow a standard operating procedure to deal with critical results for a year.
Brucellosis is a well-known infectious disease in most parts of the world, especially in developing countries, common between humans and animals. Brucellosis is diagnosed by serological tests based on lipopolysaccharides (LPSs), which are bacterial cell wall antigens, and due to the similarities between LPSs antigens of some gram-negative bacterias, false-positive responses are inevitable. Alternatively, Outer membrane proteins (Omps), as antigenic conserved membrane proteins, can be used to diagnose brucellosis instead of LPS antigens.
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