It is widely accepted that ambulatory care furnished in hospital outpatient department (OPD) settings is more costly than similar care furnished in office settings, but few researchers have explored whether practice patterns differ between the two settings. Differences in practice patterns may account for differences in the overall cost of care associated with these settings. Diagnosis-specific...

The aim of the study was to monitor non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs prescribing pattern for patients attending the dental OPD of Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur, Nepal. 1173 prescriptions of patients attending the dental OPD were collected randomly during 15 July 2011 to 14 January 2012. Thedata was analyzed using WHO guidelines. The average number of drugs prescribed...

A visible light communication (VLC) system using an organic bulk heterojunction photodetector (OPD) is presented. The system has been successfully proven indoors with an audio signal. The emitter consists of three commercial high-power white LEDs connected in parallel. The receiver is based on an organic photodetector having as active layer a blend of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and phenyl C6...

One hundred patients were selected from the cardiology outpatient department by non-probability purposive method. Each patient was evaluated by a psychiatrist and a consultant cardiologist The informations were recorded in a self designed proforma. The Hindi version of Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire and modified adjective check list for type A and type B personality characteristics wer...

Objective: To study the pattern of aural morbidity among the paediatric population attending the ENT OPD of our hospital.

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence, clinical and laparoscopic characteristics of endometriosis in infertile women. STUDY DESIGN This is a hospital-based prospective study. PATIENTS Five hundred and two (502) patients underwent diagnostic laparoscopy for evaluation of cause for infertility. Staging of endometriosis was done according to the rAFS scoring system. RESULTS Out of 502 women, 276...

The growing interest for monitoring the quality of water has triggered the need of fast, portable and cheap detection systems. To answer this problematic, we developed a lab on a chip for herbicide detection based on micro algal photosynthesis. A blue organic light-emitting diode is used as the excitation source while the resulting algae luminescence is monitored using an organic photodiode (OP...

AIM To assess lens thickness measurements with anterior segment-optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) in comparison with A-scan ultrasonography (A-scan US). METHODS There were 218 adult subjects (218 eyes) aged 59.2±9.2y enrolled in this prospective cross-sectional study. Forty-three eyes had open angles and 175 eyes had narrow angles. Routine ophthalmic exam was performed and nuclear opacity...