Association between umbilical cord vitamin D levels and adverse neonatal outcomes.

Objective: We investigated the associations between cord blood concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], neonatal outcomes, and the risk of hospitalization during the first year of life.

Methods: A total of 402 newborn infants and their mothers were prospectively enrolled and divided in four groups according to season of the year. We determined 25(OH)D serum concentrations from maternal-neonatal pairs at delivery by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay.

The Effect of Diclofenac on Bleeding, Platelet Function, and Consumption of Opioids Following Cardiac Surgery.

Objective: To establish whether the use of diclofenac reduces the administration of opioids and how it affects bleeding and platelet function after the coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery with use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).

Methods: A total of 72 patients undergoing CABG surgery were included in this retrospective randomized study and divided into two groups (34 patients received diclofenac and the control group of 38 patients did not). For postoperative analgesia, both groups were prescribed opioids (piritramide).

Determinants of maternal vitamin D concentrations in Slovenia : A prospective observational study.

Objective: To analyze the vitamin D status of pregnant women in Slovenia and the factors influencing it.

Methods: The study was performed in Maribor University Medical Centre (location 46°N). Maternal serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25(OH)D) in 4 groups of 100 pregnant women in 4 different seasons of the year was measured at the time of delivery.

Barriers to reporting medication errors and near misses among nurses: A systematic review.

Objective: To explore barriers to nurses' reporting of medication errors and near misses in hospital settings.

Design: Systematic review.

Data Sources: Medline, CINAHL, PubMed and Cochrane Library in addition to Google and Google Scholar and reference lists of relevant studies published in English between January 1981 and April 2015 were searched for relevant qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods empirical studies or unpublished PhD theses.

Content validity, face validity and internal consistency of the Slovene version of Caring Factor Survey for care providers, caring for co-workers and caring of managers.

Background: Caring relationships are important for developing a caring culture. It is important that care provider's relationships with patients, co-workers and managers are caring relationships. However, in the Slovene language, there is a lack of psychometrically sound instruments to measure these caring relationships.

Treatment of vulvovaginal candidiasis: a review of the literature.

Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) affects around three-quarters of all women during their reproductive age, although the exact incidence of VVC is difficult to determine because many patients are self-treated. The infections are divided into complicated and uncomplicated. Uncomplicated VVC is most effectively treated with local azoles.

Seasonal variations of vitamin D concentrations in pregnant women and neonates in Slovenia.

Objective: While foreign research shows a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women and consequently in neonates, we do not have any data on vitamin D concentration in these risk groups for Slovenia. We performed a prospective study to evaluate vitamin D concentration in pregnant women and neonates in Maribor region.

Study Design: We determined 25-hydroxy-vitamin D concentration from blood samples taken before delivery from 100 pregnant women who gave birth in Maribor University Clinical Centre in September and December 2013, respectively, and from the cord blood of their neonates.

Towards the novel reasoning among particles in PSO by the use of RDF and SPARQL.

The significant development of the Internet has posed some new challenges and many new programming tools have been developed to address such challenges. Today, semantic web is a modern paradigm for representing and accessing knowledge data on the Internet. This paper tries to use the semantic tools such as resource definition framework (RDF) and RDF query language (SPARQL) for the optimization purpose.