a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, Clinical Teaching and Research Unit, St. Gemma’s Hospice, 329 Harrogate Road, Leeds LS17 6QD, UK b Centre d’Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, CHU Ambroise Pare, Paris, France c Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Wisconsin, USA d Department of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Universitätsklinikum Sch...

OBJECTIVE To compare the Women's Experience with Battering Scale (WEB) with the Index of Spouse Abuse-Physical Scale (ISA-P) as screening tools to identify intimate partner violence (IPV). METHODS We conducted a large cross-sectional survey of women age 18 to 65 attending one of two family practice clinics from 1997 to 1998. All women completed both the WEB and the ISA-P and a telephone inter...

Abstrad-Screening tools for control structure selection in the presence of model/plant mismatch are developed in the context of the Structured Singular Value (p) Theory. The developed screening tools are designed to aid engineers in the elimination of undesirable control structure candidates for which a robustly performing controller does not exist. The screening tools are examined on a multi-c...

PURPOSE To perform a systematic review of screening instruments for dysphagia available in the literature. METHODS For the selection of studies, the following descriptors were used: "questionários", "questionnaires", "transtornos de deglutição", "deglutition disorders", "programas de rastreamento", and "mass screening". The online databases used for the research were Virtual Health Library (L...

Objective: The present study examines the diagnostic accuracy of abdominal ultrasonography and urinalysis test in children with blunt abdominal trauma, compared with CT scan. The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic value of ultrasound and urinalysis test with CT scan as a golden standard diagnostic method in predicting abdominal peritoneal injury in these patients.Methods: Thi...

Introduction: Hospitalized children are often at increased risk of nutritional impairment at or during admission.   Objectives: The aims of this study were to (1) define the nutritional state of hospitalized children with comparison to healthy children in two different countries and (2) compare and contrast three nutritional risk screening (NRS) tools for hospitalized children in terms of the e...

When confronted with the question “Should validated dementia self-assessment and screening tools be made widely available in electronic format and on the internet?”, a cascade of associated questions follows, often starting with “What if ?”. What if the population targeted is not internet savvy? What if individuals cannot understand the implications of the results? What if, after finding out th...

The pharmacophore concept is of central importance in computer-aided drug design (CADD) mainly because of its successful application in medicinal chemistry and, in particular, high-throughput virtual screening (HTVS). The simplicity of the pharmacophore definition enables the complexity of molecular interactions between ligand and receptor to be reduced to a handful set of features. With many p...

In clinical practice, the assessment of nutritional status in children can be problematic. More than one indicator is often required: these may include anthropometric measurements, body compartment analysis and biochemical markers. The nutritional status of children at the time of admission to hospital can impact adversely on their hospital stay. Furthermore, children’s medical conditions may a...