Does the Princess Marina Hospital accident and emergency triage scale provide highly reliable triage acuity ratings?
The reliability measures in this study indicate very high interrater agreement and limited variability in acuity ratings when using the PATS as opposed to moderate agreement and increased variability in acuity ratings when using PTS. This suggests that PATS is reliably applied by all levels of HCW and supports the feasibility of the further implementation of PATS in ED in Botswana and in other similar settings.
Cultures of aspiration biopsy samples done early after transplantation in rejection-free patients produce soluble suppression-specific antidonor response factor(s), not present in cultures from biopsy specimens taken before and during rejection. This was associated with IL-1 receptor antagonist synthesis.