Clinical audit and neurology.

Clinical audit and neurology.

Medical audit has been defined as "a systematic critical analysis of the quality of medical care, including the procedures used for diagnosis and treatment, the use of resources, and the resulting outcome for the patient". In Britain, recent reforms of the Health Service increase the need for neurologists to undertake audit. The basic principles of audit in relation to the management of common ...

Clinical Neurology

D.P.M. (Pp. x + 396. 25s.). London: Cassell. 1953. DR. PEARCE begins his book with a brief historical survey of the subject, showing that "the grave increase in Juvenile I)elinquency" has been a source of anxiety since the beginning of the nineteenth century. He ends his study by remarking that the real question is not so much one of deciding what the right preventive steps are, but whi they ar...

Brain's Clinical Neurology

(Pp. xii+436; figs. 81. 42s paper, 60s boards). London: Oxford University Press, 1969. FIRST published in 1960 this book, affectionately known as "Small Brain", as opposed to "Big Brain", has now reached its third edition evidence enough of its popularity. In writing it Lord Brain had in mind "the needs of those doctors and students who require to know only the essentials of neurology, but to k...

Essentials of Clinical Neurology

The book is well written and entertaining, providing both new interpretations of developmental stages for psychoanalysts and a good basic review of the fundamental psychoanalytic principles for those of us who are less familiar with these principles. The main body of the book describes in great detail rituals in several different Papua New Guinea tribes. These rituals are basically the same, wi...

Introduction to Clinical Neurology