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background: letters to the editor provide an opportunity for readers to state their views about published articles. research on this issue has been mainly on western journals and there is no study on the iranian journals. the present study aimed to investigate this subject in iranian biomedical journals. materials and method: this was a bibliometric study. the databases of iran medex, medlib, a...

The jump process introduced by J. S. Bell in 1986, for defining a quantum field theory without observers, presupposes that space is discrete whereas time is continuous. In this letter, our interest is to find an analogous process in discrete time. We argue that a genuine analog does not exist, but provide examples of processes in discrete time that could be used as a replacement. MSC (2000): 81...

OBJECTIVE To find out perimenopausal women's views on taking hormone replacement therapy to prevent osteoporosis. DESIGN Semistructured postal questionnaire survey; the questionnaire was enclosed with a letter to explain the purpose of the study and to give patients some information about hormone replacement therapy and osteoporosis. SETTING Mixed social class, urban general practice with 1...

BACKGROUND A systematic review identified a range of methods, which can influence response rates. However, analysis specific to a healthcare setting, and in particular, involving people expected to be poor responders, was missing, We examined the effect of pre-warning letters on response rates to a postal survey of sedentary patients whom we expected a low rate of response. METHODS Participan...

*Correspondence to: William B. Weeks, Email: [email protected] Copyright: © 2016 by Kerman University of Medical Sciences Citation: Weeks WB, Ventelou B, Or Z. Without explicit targets, does France meet minimum volume thresholds for hip and knee replacement and bariatric surgeries? Int J Health Policy Manag. 2016;5(10):613–614. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2016.105 Received: 6 July 2016; Accepted: 3 Augu...