Girl should have been offered a chance of safety

Small cell lung cancer in Norway. Should more patients have been offered surgical therapy?

OBJECTIVE The final outcome of patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is poor with an overall 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. Therefore, the question of surgery in patients with a technically-operable solitary tumor has been raised. The purpose of this study was to identify the proportion of patients with operable SCLC and to assess the prognosis of different treatment strategies. F...

Why Should We Have a Periodic Safety and Performance Program for Medical Devices

Nowadays, more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals.These devices used in medical centers and hospitals for monitoring and treatment of patients require periodic safety and performance checking in order to have confidence in their functioning and operation. Physicians need better accurate medical measurements in order to better diagnose diseases, monitor pati...

Should There Have Been a Polis in Aristotle’s Poetics?

[Reimbursement of generics in Croatia: should more have been done?].

BACKGROUND while numerous ordinances on drug pricing and reimbursement have been enacted, trying to suppress the drug expenditure in Croatia, it seemed there were inconsistencies in pricing procedures of some of the drugs. OBJECTIVES to show whether or not the pricing system given has had the desired result, we review pricing and reimbursement systems of generics in some of the EU countries a...

There should have been two: nursing care of parents experiencing the perinatal death of a twin.

78 W EACH PREGNANCY the question, "Could it be t"v~ns?"receives at least a moment's attention. Often, an emotional entanglement of joy, fear, and excitement accompanies the fantansy. Several prenatal occasions provide the stimulus to consider the possibility of twins by both the parent and professional: when first listening for fetal heart tones, during the first ultrasound scan, and when asses...