Prof. Schmieden's name alone should vouch for the high standard of the book under review. From its perusal we can strongly recommend it to all desirous of possessing a thoroughly upto-date and useful book on operative surgery. The book containing, as it does, practically an account of the practice of Prof. Bier's clinic in Berlin, is what it is named " A Course of Operative Surgery" and does no...

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The Five O'Clock Club [1] This site provides thoughtful career-development help for busy people of all levels. LOTS of helpful information found here. 6FigureJobs.com [2] Provides experienced professionals the opportunity to confidentially seek and be considered for some of the most prestigious jobs in the country. Career Change Network [3] Site for career changers. Check out events, news and v...

THE TITLE COMPOUND [SYSTEMATIC NAME: N,N-diethyl-2-(naphthalen-1-yl-oxy)propanamide], C17H21NO2, crystallizes with two independent mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit in which the dihedral angles between the naphthalene ring systems and the amide groups are 88.1 (9) and 88.7 (3)°. Four C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds stabilize the crystal structure.

We examined the use of a staff-completed measure, the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA), to record mental health problems in adolescents in local authority secure accommodation. It proved possible to train staff and implement completion of the HoNOSCA on 64 consecutive admissions. Interrater reliability was high. The HoNOSCA identified high levels of psy...

for any work of literature, a fundamental issue is to identify the individual(s) who wrote it, and conversely, to identify all of the works that belong to a given individual or to identify the individual who writes many papers on same topic or to identify the topics name that an author works on. Information extraction techniques (such as Author Name and Topic Recognition) have long been used to...

After major incidents and disasters psychosocial support for the people affected is urgent and sometimes predominant. To plan and train staff for psychosocial intervention European and national guidelines have been developed. The European Policy Paper "Psychosocial support in situations of mass emergencies" offers guidance for policy-makers and health-planners. The quality and time of early psy...

Breaking bad news is one of the most burdensome tasks physicians face in their everyday practice. It becomes even more challenging in the context of HIV+ patients because of stigma and discrimination. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the quality of giving HIV seroconversion news according to SPIKES protocol. Numbers of 154 consecutive HIV+ patients from Imam Khomeini Hospital testing...

OBJECTIVE To examine published evidence on intravenous admixture preparation errors (IAPEs) in healthcare settings. METHODS Searches were conducted in three electronic databases (January 2005 to April 2017). Publications reporting rates of IAPEs and error types were reviewed and categorised into the following groups: component errors, dose/calculation errors, aseptic technique errors and comp...