INTRODUCTION The endorsement of the chain of survival concept and early defibrillation has challenged health professionals to reconsider their beliefs about how they respond to in-hospital resuscitation. In the rural context, where 24 hour coverage is not available nurse-initiated defibrillation is expected. Despite literature and policy change in Australia to allow nurses to initiate defibrill...

Since 1947, with the beginning of the immigration to Israel on a large scale, systematic x-ray examinations were done on immigrants in the reception camps. Now our mass radiographic studies include 350,000 people. In the first years, 1947-48, the high percentage of cases with active tuberculosis of the lungs was striking (0.8 per cent), and among them we found one particular form of tuberculous...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether consumer involvement would help to solve some of the ethical problems associated with research into thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke, with its inherent risk of fatal intracranial haemorrhage. DESIGN Quantitative and qualitative research. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS CONSULTATION PHASE: three meetings were held to discuss the planned research, and participa...

The present study attempted to explore the effectiveness of form-focused-instruction in a context where English is learned as foreign language. In particular, purpose was investigate planned focus-on-form instruction comparison with focus-on-forms acquisition set modal verbs. participants were 8th grade students (n= 37) studying at middle school Denizli. adopted mixed-method research design. qu...

Market prices are well known to efficiently collect and aggregate diverse information regarding the value of commodities and assets. The role of markets has been particularly suitable to pricing financial securities. This article provides an alternative application of the pricing mechanism to marketing research using pseudo-securities markets to measure preferences over new product concepts. Su...