Erratum After publication of [1] it came to the authors’ attention that three percentage (%) symbols were missed upon publication of their manuscript. The incorrect statement present in the Abstract and Results is “The median number of unique studies was 9.09; while the range had a lowest value of 5.0 to the highest value of 33.0”. The correct statement is “The median % of unique studies was 9....

BSERVATION IN clinical practice suggests a relationship between chronic pain and depression, but what is the evidence for a direct link between chronic pain and the development of depression? In an attempt to answer this question in biological, social and psychological terms, the author carried out a literature review. A search of MEDLINE and CINAHL, from 1990 up to and including 1999, was carr...

Background: The challenges facing the implementation of telehealth services are to successfully integrate the health care system and make an integral part of clinical routine. Yet, a large proportion of telehealth projects barely survive beyond the pilot stage. For most of these projects, it appears that the citizens are rarely consulted about its needs and expectations regarding telehealth ser...

Searching The databases searched included CINAHL, MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, Current

Data sources Studies were identified to July 2000 by searching Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, CINAHL, Current

Searching The databases searched included CINAHL, MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, Current

M e t h o d s Data sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica, CINAHL, Current