Department of Geriatrics, Inselspital University of Bern Hospital, Switzerland. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland. University Department of Geriatrics, Spital Netz Bern Ziegler, Switzerland. Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, UCLA-VA Medical Center, Sepulveda, California. Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

Behavioral medicine research often seeks to examine relatively complex theoretical models and clinical processes. Traditional designs, based on retrospective self-report in the natural environment or laboratory-based studies, cannot assess complex and temporally dynamic psychological, behavioral, and physiological processes in the natural environment. An alternate research approach, Ecological ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of home-based supervised exercise vs hospital-based supervised exercise, and the effects of home-based supervised exercise vs unsupervised "go home and walk advice" on daily life and corridor-walking capacity, health-related quality of life and patient-reported functional walking capacity in patients with intermittent claudication. DATA SOURCES Systematic lit...

Exposure of Workers to Extremely Low Frequency Magnet ic F ie lds and Electr ic Appliances: Yoon Shin KIM, et al. Institute of Environmental and Industrial Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Korea—The purpose of this study was to investigate personal exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields. Subjects were randomly assigned to two groups. Thirty-seven subjects in occup...

Roghieh Kharaghani, Mohammad Shariati, Afsaneh Keramat, Masud Yunesian, Alireza Moghisi. Department of Midwifery, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran; Department of Community Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Institute for Environmental Research, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Center for Health Related S...

This study assesses the interrater reliability of Ayurvedic pulse (nadi), tongue (jivha), and body constitution (prakriti) assessments. Fifteen registered Ayurvedic doctors with 3-15 years of experience independently examined twenty healthy subjects. Subjects completed self-assessment questionnaires and software analyses for prakriti assessment. Weighted kappa statistics for all 105 pairs of do...

Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) is attracting considerable interest as a tool to assist decision makers faced with the challenge of considering a range of relevant factors when making their decision. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) is a long-established national health technology assessment (HTA) agency providing guidance to the health service on all new medicines. The stated cri...