the purpose of this study was to investigate disability and medical leave due to psychiatric disorders in patients referred to comission for psychiatric and neurological consultation of 682 patients who had been referred to the comission during 1993-94. results showed that psychiatric disorders and mood disorders led to occupational disability and medical leave at a significantly higher rate th...

introduction: many organizations, especially service oriented ones, relative to their goals and mission, have a special view towards quality phenomena and its management. methods: this paper analyzes medical service quality in one case the internal section of shaheed rahnemoon hospital based on the basis of gap analysis model and servqual technique. a questionnaire was designed and applied to m...

background: identification of the effective factors in reducing response time in prehospital emergency medical service (ems) can assist in improving its services. this study aimed at reviewing the effect of applying global positioning system (gps) on response time of tehran ems ambulances. materials and methods: of 132 tehran ems stations, 24 ones were randomly selected, and relevant data, incl...

to Netley for a two-months' course after studying for a similar period in Loudon. The Royal Army Medical College will not probably be completed for two <>r three years; indeed the foundation-stone of the new building has not been as yet laid, and until this building has been raised and fitted, entrants into the Indian Medical Service will probably continue to be sent to Netley; the R. A. M. C. ...

formerly. The question of free passages is still under discussion. It affects the whole army and other Indian services?not the I. M. S. alone. The Secretary of State has promised that the military side of the I. M. S. will be treated exactly as combatant officers; and those in civil employ will receive the same concessions, if any, as other officers in civil employ. Taking ail things into consi...

A young male patient was diagnosed to have laryngeal papillomas at the age of 3 years for which he underwent permanent tracheostomy and also multiple surgical and laser excision procedures. Then, later in life, the patient had progressive breathlessness and dysphagia. On examination, he had supraclavicular lymphadenopathy showing squamous carcinoma pathology. Since laryngeal papillomas have a h...