The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of structured training on recognition and appraisal of the timbre (tone quality) of musical instruments by postlingually deafened cochlear implant recipients. Twenty-four implant users (Nucleus CI24M) were randomly assigned to a control or a training group. The control group experienced only incidental exposure to music in their usual daily ro...

A sample of licensed pilots completed the Aeronautical Risk Judgment Questionnaire (ARJQ) which was developed to obtain data on pilots' perceptions of their abilities, willingness to take risks, hazard awareness, and judgments of the risks of general aviation. A subset of these subjects was tested on a computerised test of flight decision-making involving a proposed VFR flight in marginal weath...

Clinical guidelines are usually written as text documents that are meant for human consumption. Implementing clinical guidelines as decision-support systems that deliver patient-specific advice at the point of care could increase the effectiveness of clinical guidelines. Several researchers studied the transition from narrative guidelines to computer-interpretable guidelines and have identified...

Objective Prospective long-term observational studies (LOS) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) lack a core set of universally collected outcome measures, particularly patient-centered outcomes, precluding accurate comparisons across studies. Our aim was to identify measures and reported these Methods We conducted systematic review registries LOS patients with RA, searching ClinicalTrials.gov, the Age...

I McCartney RA, Banatvala JE, Bell EJ. Routine use of p-antibody-capture ELISA for the serological diagnosis of Coxsackie B virus infections. J Med Virol 1986;19:205-12. 2 Pugh SF. Heterotypic reactions in a radioimmunoassay for Coxsackie B virus specific IgM. J Clin Pathol 1984;37:433-9. 3 Bell EJ, McCartney RA, Basquill D, Chaudhuri AKR. p-Antibody capture ELISA for the rapid diagnosis of ent...

BACKGROUND Delay in calling emergency medical services following stroke limits access to early treatment that can reduce disability. Emergency medical services contact is mostly initiated by stroke witnesses (often relatives), rather than stroke patients. This study explored appraisal and behavioural factors that are potentially important in influencing witness behaviour in response to stroke. ...

The prognosis of patients with recent onset arthritis may vary from self-limiting disease to severe destructive rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In order to improve outcomes, a great deal of effort has been put into applying a diagnosis that will allow rapid initiation of treatment. The diagnosis of undifferentiated arthritis (UA) for these patients as well as the new ACR-EULAR 2010 criteria for rheu...

Stress-induced cardiomyopathy has a wide variety of clinical presentations ranging from angina symptoms to cardiogenic shock, as well as an array of echocardiographic findings and etiologies. We present a unique case of severe biventricular dilation with cardiogenic shock but rapid recovery within 96 hrs. Severe biventricular stressinduced cardiomyopathy secondary to acute rheumatoid arthritis ...

Retinoic acid (RA) induces neural differentiation of SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells. We show that the mRNA levels of the differentiation-inhibiting basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors ID1, ID2, and ID3 are down-regulated during RA-induced differentiation of SH-SY5Y cells. The levels of ID proteins decreased in parallel to the observed transcriptional repression. The expression of other ba...