Most common confirmed (81 of 226, 35.8%)/suspected diagnoses were typhoid fever (n = 41), pneumonia (n = 29), leptospirosis (n = 28), urinary tract infections (n = 20), rickettsioses (n = 19), dengue (n = 17), and meningitis/encephalitis (n = 15).
The most common confirmed causes of infant death are acute lower respiratory infections and neonatal tetanus (Baqui et al. 1998).
By far the most common histologically confirmed tumor type among the young EC patients seen at Tenwek was ESCC (95%), which is also the most common tumor type in adult patients at Tenwek [7] and in other known high risk areas [14].
LM was the third most common laboratory confirmed etiological agent in acute ABM in adults after S. pneumoniae and N. meningitidis causing 30% and 23% of cases, respectively.
The most common complaints as confirmed in our study—are pain, reduced sitting tolerance, and difficult perineal hygiene (Castle and Schneider 1978, McCarthy et al. 1988, Gamble et al. 1990).
Although auscultation is the most common method of confirming placement, it has been found unreliable.
Measuring phosphorylation of proteins by kinases in solution-based assays may be the most common means of confirming that a protein is indeed a substrate for a particular kinase.
Of all foods, tree nuts (39%%) and peanuts (27%%) were the most common trigger foods, as confirmed by other studies [ 3, 5].
The most common symptoms among H1N1 confirmed patients were fever (89%), cough (87%), shortness of breath (59%), myalgia (56%), headache (54%), sore throat (52%), and diarrhea (10%).
After acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, the disorder was the second most common immune-mediated encephalitis, confirmed in 20% of cases of encephalitis at one center using retrospective analysis of serum [ 21].
While direct visualization of the cords during intubation and auscultation of breath sounds after intubation are the most common methods used to confirm correct endotracheal tube (ETT) placement (97% and 100%, respectively), only 11.9% use colorimetric CO2 detectors for confirmation of tracheal tube placement.
