Volker Vallon, Peer Wulff, Dan Yang Huang, Johannes Loffing, Harald Völkl, Dietmar Kuhl, and Florian Lang Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, California; Department of Clinical Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg; Departments of Pharmacology and Physiology I, University of Tübingen; Department of Biolog...

1 Laboratory for Clinical Pathology and Molecular Biology (Labo Lokeren – campus RIATOL), Antwerp, Belgium; 2 Departments of Gynecology and Oncology, The Middelheim Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium; 3 Departments of Gynecology and Oncology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; 4 Jan Palfijn Hospital and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; 5 AMBIOR, Lab...

The need is stressed for university departments of general practice to examine their role and create a philosophy which will guide their function. The success of a department depends upon clear objectives, teamwork, and integration with the teaching given by other clinical departments in the medical school. The contribution of general practice to undergraduate training is discussed and problems...

The National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) relies on industry-standard code sets used in health information technology (i.e., LOINC, SNOMED, and HL7) to integrate surveillance systems that efficiently and securely transfer public health, laboratory, and clinical data from the health care system to public health departments. NEDSS comprises interoperable individual surveillance ...

From the Departments of Medicine (M.T., N.P.) and Public Health Sciences (M.T.) and the Division of Critical Care Medicine (N.P.), University of Alberta, Edmonton; and the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB (B.M.) — both in Canada. Address reprint requests to Dr. Tonelli at 7-129 Clinical Science Bldg., 8440 112th St., Edmonton, AB T6B 2G3,...

a Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, Ghent University, H. Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Departments of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, M5G1X5 Canada Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5T1R8 Canada Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, M5T1R8 Canada e Depart...

There have been considerable changes in every branch of medicine since the in' ception of the Health Act, and in no branch is this more obvious than in the casualty departments of our hospitals throughout the country. There are many reasons changes and some of the main ones are discussed under three main headings. Firstly the public have changed in their attitude to the hospitals. The nearby in...

introduction: methodologically correct assessment of patient satisfaction (ps) plays a crucial role for quality-improvement purposes. evaluation of iranian literature on emergency department’s ps resulted in an emerging need for developing a new instrument with satisfactory psychometric properties. the present study, aimed to develop and initially validate a scale to measure ps in emergency dep...

conclusions although, successful implementation of high reliability organizations is based on knowledge of managers and supervisors, the effectiveness of this model is still in the maturity and readiness phase. results after holding high reliability model training course, 52.2% of respondents expressed obtaining a keen knowledge of high reliability organizations model. compared to knowledge of ...