This reports on findings from follow-up research conducted in 2002, tracking the journey of nine early childhood centres that had conducted a quality improvement review of practices in 2000. The purpose of the research was to identify successes, barriers and enablers to maintaining quality improvement. All the centres had been successful at maintaining change. Common threads contributing to suc...

The purpose of this survey was to assess the current practice in Europe regarding cryoablation for treatment of different cardiac arrhythmias. The data are based on an electronic questionnaire sent to members of the European Heart Rhythm Association Research Network. Responses were received from 49 centres in 18 countries. The results show that cryoablation for supraventricular tachycardia in E...

The purpose of the EP wire is to examine the clinical practice in the management of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT), with special focus on diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Forty-five European centres, all members of the EHRA-EP Research network completed the questions of the survey. There was an equal distribution of centres with high, medium, and low volume of activity. The most c...

OBJECTIVES To compare the quality of clinical care in walk-in centres with that provided in general practice and by NHS Direct. DESIGN Observational study involving assessment of clinicians by standardised patients. SETTING 20 walk-in centres, 20 general practices, and 11 NHS Direct sites. PARTICIPANTS 297 consultations with standardised patients, 99 in each setting, carried out by profes...

AIMS To determine the general characteristics of people with mental disorders in traditional healers centres in Sudan in terms of sociodemographic profile, common clinical presentations and diagnostic features, and to look at the treatment methods and intervention procedures used in these centres for treating people with mental illness. METHODS This is a descriptive cross-sectional study usin...

in this paper, we study the chebyshev centres of bounded subsets of normed spaces and obtain a norm inequality for relative centres. in particular, we prove that if t is a remotal subset of an inner product space h, and f is a star-shaped set at a relative chebyshev centre c of t with respect to f, then llx - qt (x)1i2 2 ilx-cll2 + ilc-qt (c) 112 x e f, where qt : f + t is any choice function s...

The purpose of this European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) survey was to explore the work-up and management of lone atrial fibrillation (AF) among the European centres. Thirty-two European centres, all members of the EHRA electrophysiology (EP) research network, responded to this survey and completed the list of questions. The prevalence of lone AF has been reported to be ≤10% by 19 (60%) of ...

nonstationary channel equalisation problem Eng-Siong Chng y 1, Howard Yang z, Herbert Wiklickyz y Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 11957. Email : [email protected] z Brain Information Processing Group, Frontier Research Programme, RIKEN. 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-01, JAPAN. Abstract| The computational requirement to implement the optimal Bayesi...