A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY ASSESSING PRESCRIPTIONS OF A TERTIARY CARE TEACHING INSTITUTE OF CENTRAL INDIA USING THE WHO CORE DRUG INDICATORS

A Cross-sectional Study Assessing Prescriptions of a Tertiary Care Teaching Institute of Central India using the WHO Core Drug Indicators

Introduction: The WHO has developed medication use indicators, including prescription indicators with an aim to evaluate the services provided to the population in regard to medications.With the help of these indicators, there will be constant watch on drug prescribing pattern in health care to avoid irrational prescribing.Objectives: The objective

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Contrast-associated acute kidney injury: does it really exist, and if so, what to do about it? [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

For decades, when contrast agents are administrated, physicians have been concerned because of the risk of inducing acute kidney injury (AKI).Recent literature questions the existence of AKI induced by contrast, Sailing Drysuit but animal studies clearly showed harmful effects.The occurrence of contrast-associated AKI was likely overestimated in th

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Evaluation of maternal and newborn health services in Jordan

Yousef S Khader,1 Mohammad S Alyahya,2 Nihaya A Al-Sheyab,3 Khulood K Shattnawi,4 Hind Rajeh Saqer,5 Anwar Batieha6 1Epidemiology, Medical Education and Biostatistics, Department of Community Medicine, Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan; 2Department of Health Management

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A Universal LiDAR SLAM Accelerator System on Low-Cost FPGA

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) serves as a basis for indoor cleaning, navigation, and many other useful applications in both industry and household.From a series of LiDAR scans, it constructs an accurate, globally consistent model of the environment and estimates a robot position inside it.SLAM is i

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