Educating nonmedical prescribers

Price sensitive prescribers

Article history: Received 19 February 2009 Received in revised form 13 March 2009 Accepted 18 March 2009 Available online 28 March 2009

Working with non-medical prescribers.

Are brace prescribers following standards?

Materials and methods A cross-sectional study was carried out between March 2006 and March 2007, on all confirmed AIS patients aged 10 to 18, who were referred to a pediatric scoliosis clinic in a major referral center for a first visit. Agreement between the actual brace prescription patterns and the criteria for immediate prescription was analyzed using a kappa coefficient. Standard recommend...

Educating Europe

The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. Such e¤ects may be especially severe for the prospective new member states of the European Union. The European Union could overcome this by allowing countries to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how such a syst...

Macular Burns from Nonmedical Lasers

Laser devices are widely used for medical, military, industrial and entertainment purposes. This extensive and unregulated use of lasers can cause a variety of maculopathies that can result in permanent vision loss. Uncontrolled and inappropriate use of laser instruments should be prevented with strict rules. We strongly emphasize the importance of changing the general misperception that lasers...