Background: Conventional echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging have been highlighted to diagnose diastolic and systolic heart dysfunction. We aimed to compare tissue Doppler imaging with conventional echocardiography to diagnose heart dysfunctions in diabetes mellitus type 1 (DMT1) patients. <s...

In 2008, the National Quality Forum declared patient and family engagement to be one of six national priorities to eradicate disparities, reduce harm, and remove waste from the health care system in the U.S. In a previous editorial in the February 2009 issue of P&T, I discussed these goals and how truly progressive they were in helping the health care system cross the “quality chasm.”1 I recent...

The main proposal in the current Congress with respect to medical malpractice is H.R. 30841 (the Moore-Gephardt bill), which was widely discussed when introduced in the 98th Congress as H.R. 5400.2 The bill merits support because it cuts through the Gordian knot of tort reform, motivating medical providers to offer reasonable compensation for negligently injured patients in exchange for patient...

Introduction: Trauma is the 3rd major cause of death in urban areas, and cardiac penetrating injury is one of the most important causes of it. Vital signs, mechanism of injury and cardiac tamponad are the important prognostic factors in this patients. At about 70% of alive injured patients have not any clinical symptoms related to cardiac injury, for this reason early diagnosis according to c...

objective: the aim of present research was to compare the quality of life in caregivers of acute and chronic schizophrenic patients. methods: considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 30 participants were selected through purposive sampling method among the caregivers of acute and chronic schizophrenic patients. the sample answered to who quality of life (whoqol-100) and demographic que...

In the mid 90s, a colleague had a brand new Palm III, we were waiting on a train station in a small Dutch city and began dreaming: what if we could use this Palm to get information about this location, about interesting places around the station and so on and so forth. Back at home we wrote a project proposal and we received funding for the MIA Project [4]. This was the beginning of a series of...