Background Evidence justifying the use of routine laboratory screening on admission is weak. The principle, however, has been widely used for decades, the arguments being convenience, a more rapid and thorough screening, and thus reduced admission time. This study investigated the differences in cost of tests and admission time if doctors at admission prescribed single biochemical tests rather ...

AIMS The observational PICTURE (Place of Reveal In the Care pathway and Treatment of patients with Unexplained Recurrent Syncope) registry enrolled 570 patients with unexplained syncope, documented their care pathway and the various tests they underwent before the insertion of an implantable loop recorder (ILR). The aims were to describe the extent and cost of diagnostic tests performed before ...

the goal of the present research was to determine the extent to which students use study and learning strategies (sls), and its relationship with their academic achievement. participants were 425 students from literature and social science and engineering schools of ferdowsi university of mashhad, who were randomly selected among two grades (i.e., year one and three) from both types of universi...

Continuity of care is a value that lies at the very heart of family medicine. It is one of those powerful, traditional values of general practice that we have accepted as being at the centre of our discipline. It refers to a continuous relationship between one physician and one patient over an extended period. It sometimes involves contact through many illnesses and life challenges. Research ha...

this paper investigates the enrollment behavior of the students of sylhet international university (siu), a private university in bangladesh. the researcher conducted reliability test, descriptive analysis, and chi-square tests and identified a number of key findings as to the enrollment behavior of students through collecting data from a sample of 584 students of siu. the research shows that t...