Eosinopenia as a diagnostic marker of bloodstream infection in a general internal medicine setting: a cohort study.

Background: Little is known about the potential use of the eosinophil count as a predictive marker of bloodstream infection. In this study, we aimed to assess the reliability of eosinopenia as a predictive marker of bloodstream infection.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study was performed in the outpatient department and general internal medicine department of a tertiary university hospital in Japan.

Psychometrics of the recovery process inventory.

The reliability and validity of the Recovery Process Inventory (RPI) were assessed in a statewide sample of 459 persons with severe mental illness from a public mental health system. Six factors were identified that reflect important aspects of the recovery process, have good internal consistency and fair to moderate test-retest reliability, and yield moderate to good convergent validity on the majority of subscales. The 22-item RPI performance across these dimensions and its comparability to the Recovery Assessment Scale and related instruments, e.