OBJECTIVES The aim of patient information is to involve patients in their condition and their treatment. The literature states that good information can improve medical outcomes, reduce patient anxiety and that patients want access to it. We wanted to calculate the provision of written patient information to ENT day-case patients, measure information recall and patient satisfaction. DESIGN A ...

Older adults show poorer performance than young adults at word list recall, especially for order information. In contrast with this temporal association deficit, older adults are generally adept at using preexisting semantic associations, when present, to aid recall. We compared the use of temporal and semantic associations in young and older adults' word list recall following both free recall ...

Taking a test before study can improve subsequent learning of that pretested information. How the pretest affects subsequent learning of other information in the passage is less clear, however. In three experiments, we examined the consequences of taking a multiple-choice (MC) pretest on the later recall of both pretested and non-pretested related information, finding that pretesting improved r...

Enhanced emotional memory often comes at the cost of memory for surrounding background information. Narrowed-encoding theories suggest that this is due to narrowed attention for emotional information at encoding, leading to impaired encoding of background information. Recent work has suggested that an encoding-based theory may be insufficient. Here, we examined whether cued recall-instead of pr...

We propose an information retrieval method based on question identification. We have implemented and integrated a prototype Chinese speech IR system for a commercial PDA with this method for questions concerning mobile phone operations. A preliminary evaluation showed that our method is effective. In the evaluation, our method outperformed a similar document search method by ten points or more ...

BACKGROUND Following a recent change in the indexing policy for French quality controlled health gateway CISMeF, multiple terminologies are now being used for indexing in addition to MeSH®. OBJECTIVE To evaluate precision and recall of super-concepts for information retrieval in a multi-terminology paradigm compared to MeSH-only. METHODS We evaluate the relevance of resources retrieved by m...