flowers, gay curtains hide the marks on the windowsills where the bars used to be. I climb the stairs and go along the endless corridors with the cell-like bedrooms on one side and the open ward on the other. More visitors today, wives are going home for Bank Holiday and husbands have brought suitcases... Grandma holds up a baby to his mother: 'Hasn't he grown! You'll be home soon, Jean shuffle...

Hospitals are data-rich but information-poor. To develop a ‘continuous-learning health care system’ we need to harness our myriad information sources so that every patient encounter becomes the basis for new evidence of what works.

The space-time prism has been widely used to model individual movements with respect to both space and time. It demarcates all locations that a mobile object can occupy given the origin and destination anchors, the earliest origin departure time, the latest destination arrival time, and the maximum allowed travel 1970, Lenntorp 1976). Although the prism boundary has been widely recognized and a...

AIM The purpose of this study was to determine clinical success rate of single visit verses multiple visit root canal treatment in cariously exposed vital primary molars. Material& methods: 40 children in age group of 4 to 7 years were divided equally into two treatment groups and recall visits were carried out after one week, one month and three months and six months. RESULTS Statistically n...

Blood pressure (BP) levels are linearly associated with cardiovascular risk, and hypertension is the most common modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Moreover, antihypertensive treatment-induced BP lowering has been associated with reduction in all outcomes (stroke, heart failure, coronary events, cardiovascular, and all-cause mortality). Apart from the established knowledge regar...

background: postpartum care at home is a post delivery care method that can be provided by public health nurses, trained health workers, or midwifery nurses. a study conducted to compare effect of two midwife visits at home to usual postpartum care on the healthy behaviors of low-risk iranian mothers. methods: a randomized controlled trial conducted on 200 mothers at a reference center for scre...

background: more psychiatric visits, especially non-emergency ones, to emergency departments (eds) of general hospitals have been observed in recent years. the aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of psychiatric visits to the ed of rasoul-e-akram hospital, tehran, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, during a two-month period, all psychiatric presentations and consult...