AIM To evaluate the effect of an education programme on nurses' knowledge, attitude and competence on suicide prevention and management for patients with suicide attempt or ideation and their family members; and to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the programme from the participants' perspectives. BACKGROUND Providing care for patients with suicidal ideation or after suicidal acts in g...

Although hypophosphatemia has been implicated as a cause of respiratory failure, its impact on respiratory muscle function in patients hospitalized for other reasons remains to be determined. Maximal inspiratory pressures (MIP) and maximal expiratory pressures (MEP) were measured at the bedside in 23 hospitalized patients with serum phosphate levels less than 2.5 mg/dl, and these measurements w...

Over the past fteen years a variety of interactive IDA systems have been developed to support strategic reasoning for data analysis. We present an AI framework, hierarchical task network planning, that provides a unifying view of these e orts. We describe a taxonomy of strategic approaches to IDA, based on the planning framework, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses associated with each app...

PURPOSE This study evaluated the clinical manifestations of and risk factors for pituitary insufficiency in children and adolescents with Rathke's cleft cysts. METHODS Forty-four patients with Rathke's cleft cysts younger than 19 years who visited Seoul National University Children's Hospital between January 1995 and September 2009 were enrolled. Rathke's cleft cysts were confirmed histologic...

chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is an autoimmune disease with progressive and relapsing courses. the main clinical presentations are diffuse deep tendon hyporeflexia or areflexia and symmetric proximal-distal muscles weakness. myasthenia gravis is also an immune mediated disease with fluctuating ocular and bulbar symptoms and sometimes weakness. although both myasthenia gravis...