Some patients with head injuries definitely need to undergo an imaging study--usually computed tomography (CT). Most, however, are in a category of "apparently mild" injury, and controversy continues about which of them need to undergo imaging studies to rule out intracranial injuries.

We integrate the multi-disciplinary fields of quality of life (QoL) and well-being (WB) and appraise the impacts of health factors. Theoretical and methodological limitations are discussed and new conceptual and technical advances identified, These are informed by cross-cultural and community perspectives. Following a definitional review, social inequalities, and links with happiness are examin...

Copy and paste abstract article here. yet difficult goals to achieve in social science research. The nuanced differences among the domains, frameworks, assumptions, and methods of the various fields of study that comprise such research often hinder attempts to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue that is both meaningful and productive. We show that demography, economics, political science, and ...

Two understandings of the dynamics of power developed by Foucault have been extensively used in analyses of contemporary healthcare: disciplinary power and governmentality. They are sometimes considered alternative or even contradictory conceptual frameworks. Here, we seek to deploy them as complementary ways of making sense of the complexities of healthcare organisation today. We focus on effo...

The Department of Information Sciences at the University of Zadar has recently submitted its new program for accreditation, at two university levels – the undergraduate and the graduate. These programs were designed according to the needs of the LAM community. Together with the existing PhD program, these programs approached educational issues from a twofold perspective: firstly, the authors in...

PURPOSE Hospital medicine necessitates that practitioners from many disciplines collaborate to care for patients with complex illnesses. Much emphasis is placed on multi-disciplinary interaction during the ward round to achieve collaboration, but it can still be difficult to attain. This paper looks at how electronic medical records affect multi-disciplinary collaboration during ward rounds. ...

Much of Gregory Bateson's work was misunderstood or unappreciated during his lifetime because it challenged people to think in new ways and defied disciplinary compartments. Textbook anthropology has tended to slot him into ‘functionalism’ or ‘culture and personality studies,' which is far too narrow an assessment of his contribution. Many of his ideas were in fields that were widely separated ...

Unilateral spatial inattention (USI) is sometimes challenging to differentiate from true hemianopsia. Visual field testing can appear to be variable and inconsistent. The results of field testing may be conflicting depending on the method used. Factors to consider are the presentation method of targets, dual presentation, differences in target size, and other variables demanding increased atten...

The phenomenon of rankings is intimately related with the government interest in fiscalizing the research outputs of universities. New forms of managerialism have been introduced into the higher education system, leading to an increasing interest from funding bodies in developing external evaluation tools to allocate funds. Rankings rely heavily on bibliometric indicators. But bibliometricians ...