Practitioners of occupational therapy in the early 1900s selected therapeutic activities with an intuitive understanding of their characteristics and operations. The term activity analysis and the methodology for breaking down and examining tasks scientifically, however, were borrowed from industry during World War I. Methods originally used in time and motion study of jobs were applied to voca...

The purpose of our study was to pinpoint the hallmarks of military radiology during the first 20 years after the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. X-ray examination become indispensable for the diagnosis and treatments of military wounds. Initially, x-ray apparatus were installed in permanent military hospitals. The evolution of technology and the increasing needs for immediate tr...

BACKGROUND Hospital pharmacy is responsible for controlling and monitoring the medication use process and ensures the timely access to safe, effective and economical use of drugs and medicines for patients and hospital staff. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to optimize the management of studied outpatient pharmacy by developing suitable queuing theory and simulation technique. PATIENTS AND METH...

EPIDEMIC infantile gastro-enteritis due to the specific serological types of Escherichia coli is the most infectious disease that is regularly admitted to hospitals in England, and there are at present no successful methods of preventing crossinfection by these organisms (Rogers, 1956). Jameson, Mann & Rothfield (1954) describe a large outbreak in which control was only achieved by complete clo...

A group of British Military Hospitals was established between 1915 and 1918 along the estuary of the River Canche on the northern French coast. Their positions, now obliterated, can be identified from a plan of the time. With the growing realisation of the importance of bacteriology in the treatment of wound infection, the laboratory of Sir Almroth Wright in neighbouring Boulogne-sur-mer had a ...

BACKGROUND Celiac disease (CD) is underdiagnosed, and iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is a common presentation of CD. No guidelines exist in the literature for screening for CD among those with IDA in the United States. We surveyed hematologists to deter- mine rates of CD screening in patients with IDA. METHODS A survey was e-mailed to members of the American Society of Hematology. RESULTS The...

BACKGROUND Many diagnostic and treatment procedures are done in hospitals and clinics. Offering services in these areas have a prominent role in promoting patients' satisfaction levels and their prospective about health services. OBJECTIVES This study is going to assess the satisfaction levels of patients referring to the six military hospital clinics in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this ...