CORRESPONDENCE 548 However, I note that you adopted statements from Jimmy Carter and Larry King as definitive comment regarding Israel's culpability. You also use extreme leftist group opinion in Israel to support your argument. Your report is unbalanced and one-sided, totally lacking factual information on what took place on the ground, and has nothing to do with the practice of medicine. You ...

The Public Health Nursing Service (SESP) of Clinicas Hospital (HCPA) celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2012 and was a pioneer in implementing outpatient nursing consultation. SESP was organized taking into consideration infrastructure to plan nursing care based on the policy in effect and the needs of the community(1). At that time, it was a huge challenge, since there were few models for outp...

editor’s note geopersia is published biannually by the college of science, university of tehran, iran. the college of science published “journal of science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. it was then decided that the college’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of geopersia was launched. geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original res...

Background: the inappropriate use of handouts and notes is a common academic problem among students. Students' notes are too brief and incomplete in compare with references; hence they may not cover the required content for the courses. The aim of this paper is to analyze students' attitude toward reading handouts and notes instead of references. Methods: In this analytical and descriptive stud...

PURPOSE Although surveys are usually piloted before fielding, cognitive-based testing of surveys is not standard practice in nursing home (NH) research. Many terms used in the literature do not have standard definitions and may be interpreted differently by researchers, respondents, and policy makers. The purpose of this study was to ensure that survey respondents understood questions as intend...

herein, we present the case of a child with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia who simultaneously developed probable invasive aspergillosis and was diagnosed with gi mucormycosis by histopathologic examination. the patient referred to the pediatric intensive ca re unit of ege university due to clinical deterioration and severe lower gastrointestinal system bleeding. main symptoms were abdominal dist...

' T ' H E article in this issue by Holden, McBride, and J . Perozek (1997) on expectations of nursing home use reflects an increasingly important phenomenon in the economics literature: the use of direct measures of expectations, uncertainty, and preferences to model economic behavior. Examination of the mainstream economics literature over the past several decades shows two important but essen...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the local use of written "Do not resuscitate" orders to designate inpatients unsuitable for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest. DESIGN Point prevalence questionnaire survey of inpatients' medical and nursing records. SETTING 10 acute medical and six acute surgical wards of a district general hospital. PARTICIPANTS Questionnaires were filled ...

Stress is a common problem that affects most people with dementia and their caregivers. Stress symptoms for people with dementia are often measured by answering a checklist of questions by the clinical staff who work closely with the person with the dementia. This process requires a lot of effort with continuous observation of the person with dementia over the long term. This article investigat...