BACKGROUND Otologic diseases are common and associated with significant health care costs. While accurate diagnosis relies on physical exam, existing studies have highlighted a lack of comfort among trainees with regards to otoscopy. As such, dedicated otoscopy teaching time was incorporated into the undergraduate medical curriculum in the form of a small group teaching session. In this study, ...

In the 25 years since its foundation, Cognition and Emotion has become a leading psychological journal of research on emotion. Here we review some of the ways in which this has occurred. Questions have included how parallel systems of cognition and emotion can operate in emotion regulation and psychological therapies (including the issue of free will), how the cognitive approach to emotion work...

Inherent Safety is generally recognised as an important concept in the design of chemical plants. It is, however, often regarded as the sole province of engineers. Inspired by the successful development in the last decade from cleaner technology towards cleaner production, we explored in this research the feasibility of what we call Inherently Safer Production. Four pilot cases were carried out...

Primary carcinoma of the trachea, in its rarity, contrasts with carcinoma of the bronchus, whose increasing frequency has been recognized during the last twenty-five years. Since von Bruns's publication of the statistics available up to 1898, the literature has been reviewed by Krieg (1908), Lombard and Baldenweck (1914), d'Aunoy and Zoeller (1931), and Culp (1938), the last of whom reviewed in...

This study aims to investigate clients' satisfaction with individual placement and support (IPS) at the University Hospital for Psychiatry Zurich (PUK). Furthermore, this study aims to investigate if clients feel the approach of IPS as a useful approach to fulfill their needs. One hundred twenty-five people were recruited from one of the three IPS services of PUK and were asked to complete a st...

BACKGROUND The EQ-5D is one of the most used generic health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) instruments worldwide. To make the EQ-5D suitable for use in economic evaluations, a societal-based value set is needed. Indonesia does not have such a value set. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to derive an EQ-5D-5L value set from the Indonesian general population. METHODS A representative sampl...

I speak as one who has been engaged in the educational field in respect of mental health for the last twenty-five years. When my interest in this subject started, early in the 'twenties, it was certainly a practically unknown field, and those of us who have worked in it will realize that we have had not only to try to build up something but to break down something?something which is still not c...