Patients who reside in common lodging-houses.

Improving the identification rate of pulmonary tuberculosis among inmates of common lodging houses.

SUMMARY An improvement in the identification of pulmonary tuberculosis among residents of common lodging houses has proved possible through the close cooperation of the doctor providing primary medical care, the mass miniature radiography services, and the wardens of the hostel where the proposed visit is to take place. Renewed interest has recently been expressed about the single homeless and ...

Tuberculosis in a common lodging-house.

In most European countries tuberculosis mortality has been decreasing during the last few decades, but this decrease has not been uniformly experienced by all age and sex groups (Clarke, 1952; Cheeseman, 1952). Generally, old men as a group have benefited least and this contention is supported in some countries by the trends of notification rates (Cheeseman, 1956; Lowe, 1954; Stocks, 1950; Mini...

People who live in glass houses

A Pilot Study Evaluating a Home Exercise Dvd for Patients Who Reside in a Rural and Remote Location

Objectives: Home exercise programs are an important component of a hand therapy rehabilitation program. Compliance with the recommended home exercise regime is generally considered essential for good treatment outcomes. The aim of this pilot was to determine the clarity of an innovative hand therapy DVD. This DVD will be utilised in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) examining the usefulness o...

Tracking of pedometer-determined physical activity in adults who relocate: results from RESIDE

BACKGROUND This secondary analysis investigated the extent and pattern of one-year tracking of pedometer-determined physical activity in people who relocated within the same metropolitan area (T1: baseline and T2: post-relocation). Specifically, data were derived from the RESIDential Environment Project (RESIDE), a natural experiment of people moving into new housing developments. METHODS 1,1...