Objective To develop a kinetic chromogenic quantitative method for the determination of endotoxin content in intermediate of pertussis antigen,and to verify the method so as to better control the quality of diphtheria,tetanus,and pertussis vaccine(DTP vaccine).Methods A kinetic chromogenic assay[Limulus Amebocyte Lysate(LAL)]was developed to detect the endotoxin content in the intermediate products of pertussis antigens after detoxification,and verified for the linearity,specificity,accuracy,reproducibility and intermediate precision. The quantitative detection results of kinetic chromogenic assay were compared with those of gel method.Results The absolute value of the linear correlation coefficient（|r|）of the kinetic chromogenic assay was more than 0. 99;under the maximum effective multiple dilution,the interference test recovery of the intermediate was within 50% — 200%,and pertussis toxin(PT)diluted to 10,100 and 1 000 times,filamentous hemagglutinin(FHA)diluted to 3 000,5 000 and 10 000 times,and pertussis adhesin(PRN)diluted to 50,75 and 100 times had no interference effect on the experiment after detoxification;the accuracy verification recovery rates of PT,FHA and PRN were 125%,110% and 99% respectively;and the CVs of reproducibility verification were 7. 21%,8. 31% and 5. 84%,and the CVs of intermediate precision verification were 6. 04%,16. 29% and 12. 23%,respectively.The bacterial endotoxin content of the three batches of pertussis antigen intermediates detected by kinetic chromogenic assay was consistent with that verified by gel method,both of which were less than the limit of bacterial endotoxin in the intermediates of pertussis antigen after detoxification.Conclusion The developed kinetic chromogenic assay has good linearity,specificity,accuracy and precision with accurate detection results,which can be used to detect the endotoxin content in intermediate products of component pertussis antigen after detoxification.

Biomedical Research ; Child ; Humans ; Multicenter Studies as Topic ; Pediatrics

Humans ; Mass Screening ; economics ; Research ; economics

Humans ; Research Design ; Retrospective Studies ; Surgical Procedures, Operative

Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; Treatment Outcome

Objective To analyse the economies of scale in public hospitals in Zhejiang Province. Methods One hundred and twenty-five public hospitals in Zhejiang Province with qualification no less than class two level two were selected as sample hospitals. Douglas production function was employed to analyse the relationship between investment and output in sample hospitals between 2004 to 2006, with two types of production models established by medical service and incomes in hospitals as dependent variables. Results From 2004 to 2006, the medical service and incomes of sample hospitals were in line with economies of scale. The production increase rate was higher than investment increase rate. The medical service, incomes, total assets and number of staff in class three hospitals were higher than those in class two hospitals (P =0.000). Conclusion Economies of scale is the ultimate incentive to continuous outstretch for hospitals. Hospitals should rationally control the scale so as to avoid problems in medical service caused by overstretch.

Objective To determine the value of 18F-FDG PET-CT in detecting the primary origin of cancer of unknown primary (CUP).Methods A total of 48 patients (age range 41-82 years,mean age of 57±16 years, 20 females) were retrospectively selected. All patients were diagnosed as CUP and were examined by 18F-FDG PET-CT scan.The patients were divided into cervical lymph node metastasis group (28 cases) and extra-cervical lymph node metastasis group (20 cases) according to different metastasis site.Sensitivity of 18F-FDG PET-CT to detect primary tumor site was compared between these two groups.Results 18F-FDG PET-CT detected primary tumors in 32 of 48 patients (66.7 ％), the cervical lymph node metastasis tumors in 22 of 28 patients (78.6 ％), and extra-cervical lymph node metastasis tumors in 10 of 20 patients (50.0 ％).There was significant difference between cervical lymph node metastasis group and extra-cervical lymph node metastasis group (x2 =4.286,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion 18F-FDG PET-CT has a high sensitivity to detect primary origin of CUP,especially for patients with cervical lymph node metastasis.

Objective To establish the evaluation system and explore the possible impact factors for public interest nature in public hospitals. Methods One hundred and twenty-five public hospitals in Zhejiang Province were served as sample hospitals, and related data of year 2004 to year 2006 were collected. The Delphi expert investigation method, variation coefficient method and TOPSIS method were employed to screen the impact factors for public interest nature and build up the evaluation system for public hospitals, and stepwise regression analysis was conducted for possible impact factors of public interest nature. Results The evaluation system mainly included five aspects of quantity, quality, efficiency, mean charge of medical service and social satisfaction to public hospitals. The two most important factors that influenced the public interest nature were the number of beds and the number of equipments valued above 10 000 RMB. Conclusion The hospital scale is the most important impact factor for the nature of public interest in public hospitals. Therefore, the scale of public hospitals should be properly designed so as to ensure the public interest nature in public hospitals.

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Objective: To study the status and identify the determinants of outpatient service utilization of rural floating population in Beijing who have different accumulated residence time.Methods: The survey data of rural floating population health and health care services in Beijing in 2014 were used, and the migrant population aged 18 years and above were taken as the research object.Whether to use outpatient service within two weeks was taken as dependent variable, gender, age, education level, self-assessment score of socioeconomic status, accumulated residence time in Beijing, health insurance, average household income, suffering from high blood pressure or diabetes as independent variables.Logistic regression model was used to analyze the influencing factors.Results: The average age of the research object was 36.7 years, with mostly secondary education.The average accumulated residence time in Beijing was 8.4 years.The two-week prevalence rate was 10.3%, the two-week visiting rate calculated by person-time was 6.0%.The Logistic regression model suggested that, socioeconomic status, accumulated residence time and suffering from high blood pressure or diabetes were statistically significant determinants of outpatient service utilization.Conclusion: The research object is a younger and less educated population, their health status is better and outpatient service utilization is lower.It is found that people who have longer accumulated residence time in Beijing have lower outpatient service utilization.This is because people with longer residence time have lower age-adjusted two-week prevalence rate.This is also because people with longer residence time have larger proportion of taking continuous measures under doctor's advice.It does not mean people with longer residence time have lower utilization of medical service.The residence time variable plays the role of proxy variable.It can solve the problem of variables' endoge-neity.At the same time, it can reflect the influence to outpatient services utilization of some determinants,which are not included in the model but varies with residence time.