BACKGROUND The content of discharge prescriptions/summaries to improve communication about medication provided at discharge has been the subject of recent studies. To date, the authors are not aware of any literature that assesses the need for primary care health professionals to receive information on reasons for drug therapy changes incurred during hospital admission. Owing to increased empha...

Since the Belgian elderly population is expanding at a very high rate, it is important for public health care systems to better understand ageing-related syndromes and diseases, such as sarcopenia. This condition is characterized by a progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and its action generating capacity (also termed muscle function). Therefore it also implies risk of adverse outcomes like...

Location-based online collaborative platforms are proving to be an effective and widely adopted solution for geospatial data collection, update and sharing. Popular collaborative projects like OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia and other services that collect and publish user-generated geographic contents have been fostered by the increasing availability of location-aware palmtop devices. These instrumen...

BACKGROUND Mental health problems constitute a large part of general practitioners' (GPs') work, for which they may have received little training beyond their undergraduate education. They continue to find themselves criticized in the literature over inadequate recognition and management of these problems. While there is concern about the effectiveness of continuing medical education (CME), edu...

Due to their lower energy demand, alkali-activated materials or geopolymers (GPs) are strong candidates replace ordinary Portland cement binders in some applications. The present article attempts investigate the possibility of incorporating plastics waste place silica sand filler GP mortars. compressive strength, density, FTIR, XRD, BET and SEM prepared mortars were evaluated. Satisfactory stre...

BACKGROUND Comparative performance information (CPI) about the quality of hospital care is information used to identify high-quality hospitals and providers. As the gatekeeper to secondary care, the general practitioner (GP) can use CPI to reflect on the pros and cons of the available options with the patient and choose a provider best fitted to the patient's needs. We investigated how GPs view...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based technology that has truly revolutionised many positioning and navigation activities, and today stands unchallenged as the ‘first choice’ position determination technology for all outdoor applications. GPS is global, works in all weather conditions, is available 24hrs a day and is free of user charges. Thanks to the revolution in microelec...

André Hauschild ([email protected]) Title: Real-Time Clock Estimation for Precise Orbit Determination of LEO-Satellites Abstract: This paper/presentation discusses the real-time estimation of clock offsets for the GPS constellation. A realtime system for clock estimation is currently developed by DLR/GSOC to support up-coming missions which require precise orbit determination in near-real-...