BACKGROUND Private hospitals' activities are not routinely reported, so what services they provide and for whom is not known. This study describes the clientele and case-mix of independent hospitals in England and Wales in 1997-1998. METHOD Person, clinical and funding data were collected on samples of patients admitted to 215 of 221 independent hospitals open in 1997-1998. Sample numbers wer...

BACKGROUND With an increased use of magnetic resonance imaging, the indications for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) have changed. Consequently, the patterns and factors predictive of complications after ERCP performed during current routine clinical practice are not well known. METHODS A prospective multicentre cohort study was undertaken in 11 Norwegian hospitals. Compl...

BACKGROUND Long-term levodopa usage in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients is known to cause several motor complications. It may be related to several factors such as levodopa dosage, duration of treatment and severity of disease. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of levodopa motor complications and associated factors in Thai Parkinson's disease patients. MATERIAL AND METHOD The authors prosp...

The present work aimed to evaluate, through ten different studies, the therapeutic efficacy of a new pour-on formulation, containing 1.5 per cent ivermectin +0.5 per cent abamectin, against parasites of cattle. Results obtained on trials against Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus showed that the pour-on combination of 1.5 per cent ivermectin +0.5 per cent abamectin obtained superior efficacy i...

When I had the pleasure of visiting the Cosmotron at Brookhaven in 1956 I took some statistics on the conversations in the hall. I found that 10 per cent was small talk, 25 pe, cent was about physics, and 65 per cent was about Scheduling. T’lese percen ages uive 3’. indication that even at that time the social problems of high-energy physics appeared to take precedence over the subject itself, ...

1. Passive steel wires were activated in a bath (Bath A) containing 70 v. per cent HNO(3) (in which they undergo prompt repassivation), and immediately transferred to a second bath (Bath B) containing HNO(3) of a concentration varying in different experiments. After varying intervals in this bath they were transferred while still passive to a third bath (Bath C) containing strong HNO(3) (70 or ...

1Alumni and George Peak Jr. Professor of Forest Economics and Policy, School of Forestry and Wildlife Science, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5418 (phone: 334-844-1067; fax: 334-844-1084; e-mail: [email protected]). 2Assistant Professor, Institute of Finance and Economics Research, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, No. 777 Guoding Road, Shanghai, PR China, 200433 (correspondin...

We estimated the diagnostic skill of clinicians managing melanocytic skin naevi by measuring the percentage of malignant melanomas, premalignant and potentially malignant naevi, in 1896 excised melanocytic lesions submitted to a pathology service over 11 weeks. They comprised 8 per cent. The percentage increased with age: 4 per cent in the under-40s, 17 per cent in those aged 40-59, and 30 per ...