DoLS or Quality Care?

Deprivation of Liberty and DoLS

Michael Walter Dols (1942–1989)

On 1 December 1989 Professor Michael W. Dols died in the United States after a long and difficult illness. With his passing, medical history lost one ofits foremost Arabist representatives. A native of Baltimore, Michael Dols received his BA in History from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1964 and an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1967. Drawn to the study ofthe Middle East at a time ...

Quality or inequality in health care?

or control measure of the incidence of asthma in the catchment population. If such data were available, it would strengthen the epidemiological validity of these impressive results. Quality or inequality in health care? Sir, William Fulton's pertinent letter (July Journal, p.303) raises a number of important issues about general practice on peripheral council housing estates-the 'forgotten area...

Quality of Care and Quality of Life: Convergence or Divergence?

The aim of this study was to explore the impact of quality of care (QoC) on patients' quality of life (QoL). In a cross-sectional study, two domains of QoC and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref questionnaire were combined to collect data from 1,059 pre-discharge patients in four accredited hospitals (ACCHs) and four non-accredited hospitals (NACCHs) in Saudi Arabia. Health and ...

Clinical role or service specialisation and quality of care.