introduction: population-based mortality statistics are derived from the information recorded on death certificates. this information is used for many important purposes, such as development of public health programs and allocation of health care resources. therefore, the accuracy of death certificate data is important. the aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of death certificates rec...

OBJECTIVE To examine the perceptions of intimidation in the psychiatric educational environment in Edmonton, Alberta. METHODS We distributed a 7-point modified Likert scale questionnaire that included questions with respect to intimidation perceptions and experience in psychiatry during a 1-week period to all student interns on psychiatry rotations, residents, and teaching faculty in the 5 te...

This paper examines, through interview and tape recordings the perceptions of patients with oral cancers from two Nigerian ethnic groups as regard the causes and treatment of cancer. 50% of the participants from the Yoruba ethnic group attributed the cause of cancer to ‘hands of others’ explaining that they were harmed by supernatural forces (evil spirits and ancestral spirits) while 72% of pat...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of heart failure is 3 to 20 per 1,000 population, but may exceed 100 per 1,000 in the over 65 age group. Some 1-2% of the total healthcare budget is consumed in the management of heart failure. AIM As hospital costs account for approximately 70% of this expenditure we determined the cost of treating heart failure in an Irish teaching hospital. METHODS Cost evaluati...

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine First Teaching Hospital Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Tianjin, China e-mail: [email protected]

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, Department of Haematology, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, Heart of England NHS Found...

Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Radiology, Shenzhen People’s Hospital, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University, Shenzhen 518020, China; Department of Vascular, Oncologic and Interventional Radiology, Le2i UMR CNRS 6306,...

Zhenwei Shi,* Feng Fu,* Liming Yu,* Wenjuan Xing, Feifei Su, Xiangyan Liang, Ru Tie, Lele Ji, Miaozhang Zhu, Jun Yu, and Haifeng Zhang Experiment Teaching Center, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China; Department of Physiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China; Department of Cardiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China; and Experimenta...

1 Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA), Chilanga, Zambia, 2 Care for Business (CFB) Medical Center and Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, 3 Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, 4 University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka, Zambia, 5 Research Centre for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan, 6 Department of Paraclinical S...