The Puritan in England and New England

Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England

This article engages with debates about the conceptualisation and practical challenges of patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care services. Policy in this area in England has shifted numerous times but increasingly a consumerist discourse seems to override more democratic ideas concerning the relationship between citizens and public services. Recent policy change in Engla...

The New England

The value of a diagnostic test lies in its ability to detect patients with disease (its sensitivity) and to exclude patients without disease (its specificity). For tests with binary outcomes, these measures are fixed. For tests with a continuous scale of values, various cutoff points can be selected to adjust the sensitivity and specificity of the test to conform with W HEN a doctor orders a te...

The New England

meeting of the Society was called to order by the President. Dr. Lewis Webb Hill, Boston, at 8 :15 P. M., on May 6, 1932 who spoke as follows: This meeting represents an attempt to arrive at conclusions concerning the rational use of the vitamin preparations in pediatric practice. There is one man whose work on deficiency diseases and allied subjects has been so brilliant and so applicable to t...

the new england journal of medicine

the new england journal of medicine

Latinos in New England