Temporal search persistence, certainty, and source preference in dentistry: Results from the National Dental PBRN.

Objectives: The primary goal of this paper was to investigate an old question in a new way: what are the search patterns that professionals demonstrate when faced with a specific knowledge gap?

Methods: We examine data from a cascading survey question design that captures details about searching for information to answer a self-nominated clinical question from 1027 dental professionals enrolled in the National Dental Practice Based Research Network. Descriptive and conditional logistical regression analysis techniques were used.

Results: 61% of professionals in our sample choose informal sources of information, with only about 11% looking to formal peer reviewed evidence.

Perioperative risk factors for postoperative respiratory failure.

The study aimed to identify the risk factors for respiratory failure after surgery. Postoperative respiratory failure (PRF) was defined as prolonged intubation after surgery or reintubation after unsuccessful extubation. We conducted a retrospective analysis of the following risk factors: age, obesity as reflected by body mass index (BMI), gender, patient admitted to hospital (in-patient status) vs.

Independent risk factors for surgical site infection after cesarean delivery in a rural tertiary care medical center.

Background: We aimed to determine the incidence of surgical site infection (SSI) after cesarean delivery (CD) and identify the risk factors in a rural population.

Methods: We identified 218 SSI patients by International Classification of Disease codes and matched them with 3131 parturients (control) from the electronic record database in a time-matched retrospective quality assurance analysis.

Results And Discussion: The incidence of SSI after CD was 7.

Care of dogs and attitudes of dog owners in Port-au-Prince, the Republic of Haiti.

This article reports the first known study on dogs in Port-au-Prince. Interviews with 1,290 residents provided information on 1,804 dogs. More than 57.