Health Practice Indices, 1943-1944

The Wassermann Positive Rate of Cases from Hospitals and Venereal Clinics of Calcutta in 1939, 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1947

In two previous papers in this journal (Greval and Roy Cliowdhury, 1944; Greval, Roy Chowdhury and Das, 1945) the writers gave comparative figures for (i) a normal pre-war period in 1939, (ii) a period during the war before the commencement of the anti-venereal drive in Calcutta in 1943, {Hi) a period after the commencement of the anti-venereal drive in 1944, and (iv) a period when the drive ha...

The Wassermann Positive Rate of Cases from Hospitals and Venereal Clinics of Calcutta in 1939, 1943, 1944 and 1945

[This corrects the article on p. 633 in vol. 80.].

The Wassermann Positive Rate of Cases from Hospitals and Venereal Clinics of Calcutta in 1939, 1943 and 1944

The cases tested.?The accompanying table gives the WR positive rate of a certain section, syphilitic suspects, of the civil population of Calcutta. It is by no means the positive rate for the mixed unselected population. The bloods for examination were received from general wards in hospitals and venereal clinics. The general wards predominated before the anti-venereal drive, towards the end of...

Reflections on my studies of the effects of sulphonamide drugs in bacillary dysentery in Egypt, 1943-1944.

Prognostic indices in clinical practice.

PROGNOSTIC INDICES ARE USED EXTENSIVELY IN CLINIcal research and health service quality reviews to adjust for patients’ severity of illness. Given their ubiquitous use in clinical studies, it seems surprising that prognostic indices are rarely used in clinical practice. Such disregard seems to persist even if a prognostic index addresses an important outcome, is derived by rigorous methods, and...