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..Open-ended questions, responding to patient questions, and offering fewer alternatives were all associated with the patients' positive reports of physician facilitation...

..Sending a copy letter involves a relatively trivial cost for a practice which patients view as a valuable resource...

..A letter content and format prompt card has the potential to enhance the quality of correspondence between medical specialists and referring doctors...

..Therefore, it was concluded that correspondence behavioral intervention is cost-effective and useful for lifestyle modification in the general population.

..Median rating and items identified were higher for the structured letter. Structured clinical correspondence with paragraph headings is strongly preferred and increases comprehension.

Written correspondence is the standard mode of communication between healthcare providers...

..Referral letters to specialists sometimes provide an inadequate amount of information. The content of referral letters to colorectal surgeons can now be scored based on the views of GPs about the ideal content of referral letters...

..To improve the quality of outpatient letters used as communication between hospital and primary care doctors...

..Our study examined how "relevance" is signalled and decoded in these letters, from the perspective of both experts and trainees in three clinical specialties...

..although the means have changed, the communication dynamics have not: Darwin's and Einstein's patterns of correspondence and today's electronic exchanges follow the same scaling laws...

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..This initiative is one of many that the NHS has introduced to enhance openness, honesty and the quality of information provided to patients...

..Cushing were among the most significant pioneers of modem American surgery. A review of their personal correspondence reveals a special relationship among these three individuals, particularly between William Mayo and Cushing...

..A letter is considered to be of higher quality when a specialist commences a letter with a reference to the specific request by the GP. In conclusion, opportunities for optimal communication should be better used...

..Calvet left a huge correspondence, thanks to which this duality between the practising physician and the citizen of the Republic of Letters can ..

..Disinfection of mail was largely abandoned in the early 20th century with newer knowledge about the spread and stability of these 5 infectious agents...

..We suggest a few examples of contemporary fiction that may be relevant and useful in this respect...

..The development of such pathways will require significant support, education and training for general practitioners...

..They travelled to Europe with letters of introduction to him and some of them became corresponding members of the Medical Society of London. This work is a brief profile of some of these academic friends...

..Child psychiatry is a highly specialised practice and many general practitioners are uncertain how to manage a child who might require such intervention...

..For the project described, they were not necessary to the major outcome, a nursing education and practice network that resulted in the first nurse-managed community-based clinic in China...

..Such understanding implies the need for a reexamination of the support available for GPs...

..A study was carried out to ascertain the views of young people and their parents as to who they felt should receive correspondence after an outpatient appointment.

..To investigate patients' views and understanding on receiving a copy of the outpatient clinic letter from the ocular oncologist to the referring ophthalmologist and GP...

..Separate and independent letters from the LCNS after "bad news" consultation in lung cancer provides added useful information for GPs. Ninety-one percent of the GPs wanted the letters from the LCNS to continue...

SUMMARY: A diary and an extensive correspondence of Heinrich Hertz and his family provide a meticulous documentation of his life, made available by Albrecht Folsing in 1997 through a carefully investigated biography, which permit the ..

..To determine the levels of intra- and inter-grade variability of the vetting of general practice (GP) letters as well as the intra-rater reliability of letter prioritization...

..To discover what dentists require of a hospital response letter with regards to content and timeliness...

..Accurate written communication is essential in orthopaedic surgery. Incomplete and poorly structured letters can lead to poor knowledge of a patient's diagnosis...

..This audit aimed to assess the effect of implementing referral criteria on the quality and content of referral letters sent by general dental practitioners (GDPs) to the periodontal department of a teaching hospital...

..The authors welcome counterpoint discussions with readers...

..Few patients with lower bowel symptoms who consult their general practitioner need a specialist opinion. However data from referred patients suggest that those who are referred would benefit from detailed assessment before referral...

..What the patient wants from a general practice consultation and what the doctor believes they want are not always the same thing. This mismatch may lead to unwanted and unnecessary prescribing...

..To determine patient acceptance of a preventive care model employing outreach by non-physician experts outside of clinic visits...

..Allbutt's letters to Malloch are presented here. Allbutt was an exemplary physician. His handwriting, however, left much to be desired. Transcription of these letters was no mean feat...

..The secondary objective was to determine the style of the written consultant report preferred by GDPs...

The correspondence is reported of Sir George Newman, the first Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom, during his school and university education...

..General practitioners state the reason for referring patients in referral letters. The paucity of information in these letters has been the source of criticism from specialist colleagues...

..To assess the standard of response letters issued by dental hospital departments according to the requirements of the recipient dentists...

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..However, many patients declined this offer and this qualitative study was conducted to determine why almost 80% of patients offered a copy of their referral letter opted not to receive one...

..His letters also included detailed advice for the optimal management at that time of arthritic conditions...

..The Foster Kennedy syndrome--homolateral optic atrophy and contralateral papilledema with an inferior frontal tumor--was characterized under the stimulating support of Gowers and Horsley...

..The correspondence relates of their undertakings in research, the preparations for Verhaart's stay in New Haven, the failure of ..

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..Sending patients a copy of correspondence to their GP is one means of aiding communication and improving overall satisfaction.

..The content of referral letters from GPs has failed to satisfy specialists responding to a series of surveys. Evidence suggests that GPs who improve their letters to specialists also refer more cases with significant pathology...

..Ninety-one per cent reported that they felt the reply to their referral was adequately long. A mutual questionnaire is a practicable tool to ensure quality in the referral process...

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..The standard letters were more complete and contained information commonly absent in the non-standard letters. We suggest the use of standard letters for improving the quality of communication among professionals...

An outline is given of the career of Alfred Fröhlich, and his correspondence with Sir Ronald Ross between 1901 and 1912 is described in detail.

..Electronic systems may allow the sort of reciprocal communication required to establish and sustain improvement...

..and the requirements of hospital specialists and General Practitioners (GPs) regarding oncology service correspondence. The content of letters regarding the initial consultation of 204 consecutive new oncology patients was ..

..DISCUSSION: Little educational content is currently included in letters from specialists to referring GPs. GPs are receptive to the use of referral replies as sources of learning...

..A peer review study was carried out to assess the written communication between consultants and specialist registrars in restorative dentistry with the referring general dental practitioners...

..Communication between oncologists at a regional cancer centre and family physicians caring for palliative cancer patients in the community was ineffective...

..The conclusion is that mailing a postcard prior to the first telephone contact increases the participation rates of older persons in a telephone survey at very little extra cost (A$0.60 per person)...

..Statistical support and solicited criticism allowed Nightingale to argue more forcefully for her reforms...

..Hughlings Jackson, however, did not work in a vacuum. Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914), in Philadelphia, published several clinical observations related to localization...

A study on vitamin absorption which RA Fisher analysed for WRG Atkins and co-authored with him is critically examined. The historical background as well as correspondence between Atkins and Fisher is presented.

The aim of this paper is to present the publication of the correspondence of Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff (1770 bis 1837) and to inform about the history of this project as well as the methodical proceedings and the content of these ..

..Potential drug interactions and adverse events associated with the use of entecavir are also reviewed...

..regarding outcome of assisted reproduction not otherwise available from national registers; and to assess correspondence of these outcomes with outcome data presented in the national registers of the Fertility Societies of ..

..Our experience concerning the use of color Doppler sonography (CDS) in the differential diagnosis of acute scrotum is reported...

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..Therefore, we assessed whether (a) DPPE and HA interact at CYP3A4 and other P450 human isozymes, and (b) DPPE inhibits the catalytic activity of CYP3A4...

..Recent studies indicate a correspondence between acupuncture meridians and connective tissue planes...

..a combination of ssrDNA and lsrDNA (Domains 1-3) for 79 and 80 taxa, respectively, we maintain one-to-one correspondence between molecules and morphology by scoring 45 characters from the same specimens used for sequencing, and ..

..Multivariate methods applied include cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, correspondence analysis, self organizing tree algorithm (SOTA) analysis, factor analysis, and principal component analysis...

..In the regression models, the best predictor for outcome was the PMR physician assessment. Complete and good correspondence between prediction and outcome was obtained in 71.4% (42.1% and 29.3%, respectively) in the descriptive model...

..With all of the data included, there were eight out of ten points of correspondence between the incidence of hypercreatinaemia and/or hypercreatinuria and the incidence of increases in plasma ..

..How can these trees be compared in their ability to accurately classify protein sequences?..

..To investigate the state of infection, replication site, pathogenicity and clinical significance of transfusion transmitted virus (TTV) in patients with hepatitis, especially in patients of unknown etiology...

..ocular prevalence as being due to a small vergence error (fixation disparity with a shift of retinal correspondence). This vergence error indicates, according to Haase, a (not yet fully corrected) heterophoria...

..To arrive at an expert consensus in relation to health promotion and health education constructs as they apply to nursing practice, education and policy...

Spiral-CT is standard for imaging neck tumors. In correspondence with other groups we routinely use spiral-CT with thin slices (3 mm), a pitch of 1.3-1.5 and an overlapping reconstruction increment (2-3 mm)...

..pneumococci carrying erm(B)/tet(M) transposon Tn1545, Tn6003, Tn6002, or Tn3872, we demonstrated a substantial correspondence between Tn1545 and Tn6003, which have the same resistance gene combination [tet(M) (tetracycline), erm(B) (..

..Several studies that has focused to the dopaminergic transmission in the basal ganglia in parkinsonian condition, but only a few article has taking into account the imbalance between dopaminergic and cholinergic transmission...

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..Prolonged QTc (corrected QT) interval and torsades de pointes (TDP) are associated with hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, hypokalemia, possibly alkalosis and may result in syncope and sudden cardiac death...

In 1977, Melzack and colleagues examined the possible correspondence of acupuncture points and trigger points for the treatment of pain. They claimed a 71% correspondence between these two classes of points...

..For this we used the recently published method of predictive co-correspondence analysis, and a predictive variant of canonical correspondence analysis, depending on the type of predictor ..

..contacts of the Society of Medicine and Natural Science in Jassy arise from detailed analysis of the correspondence that outlasts time in the state archive of Jassy...

..database searches (MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL), bibliographies of RCTs, clinical trial registries and correspondence with manufacturers until May 2008...

..to metronidazole and cefoperazone completely agreed with the results of the glycine tolerance test (correspondence, 100%). Seventy-three C. fetus subsp. venerealis isolates did not grow at 42 degrees C (correspondence, 90...

Prism overcorrection is a complementary procedure to reduce the residual postoperative esotropia caused by anomalous retinal correspondence (ARC) after surgery for esotropia. We have investigated the results of this treatment.

The aims of this study were to assess the lifetime prevalence rate of psychotropic drugs use in the French general population and the correspondence between psychotropic drug use and psychiatric diagnoses.

..We verified the prevalence of true ionised magnesemia and the correspondence between total and ionised Mg assays in our transplanted patients, taking into account renal Mg excretion and ..

Educational technologies have had an important role in respiratory care. Distance learning via postal correspondence has been used extensively in respiratory care, and Internet-based distance learning is now used in the training of ..

..trachomatis-specific IgA and IgG antibodies were also measured. The immunological correspondence of these serum antibodies to C. trachomatis elementary bodies was also investigated. 1...

..OBJECTIVES: To confirm by electrophysiologic means the neural correspondence between the ventral portion of the lumbar disc and the groin...

..and sound indicate that the entire stridulatory file is used for sound production and there is nearly a 1:1 correspondence between the number of cycles in a song and the number of teeth on the file...

..However, some embryological evidence suggests that these digits are 2, 3, and 4. This apparent lack of correspondence has been described as the greatest challenge to the widely accepted theropod-bird link (Zhou 2004...

..0ST arrays. The use of Exon arrays makes it possible to assess the performance of RNA-Seq in two key areas: detection of expression at the granularity of individual exons, and discovery of transcription outside annotated loci...

..To describe a method for quantitative mapping of metamorphopsia and abnormalities of oculocentric direction in subjects with epiretinal membranes...

..The purpose of these experiments was to determine whether microstrabismic subjects have sensory abnormalities that could give rise to a small angle of strabismus...

..However, the correspondence between different preclinical models is not absolute...

..Data were compared using Bland-Altman plots that showed good correspondence between all pairs of measurements. Concordance between the three methods was 0...

..Thus, registration is a critically important step required to determine these transformations so that correspondence is maintained between the prebiopsied image and the real-time image...

..The results show good correspondence between both measurement systems, except for the ankle power estimation...

..recorded data-neuronal, muscular and kinematic-we will take the novel, comprehensive approach of comparing the correspondence between the reduced spaces at all three levels...

..recorded data-neuronal, muscular and kinematic-we will take the novel, comprehensive approach of comparing the correspondence between the reduced spaces at all three levels...

..animals to provide data relevant to issues of vulnerability to sedative/anxiolytic drug abuse and to the correspondence between molecular mechanisms of action and stimulus effects of anxiolytics...

..Building on our pervious findings, we will explore the spatial correspondence of fMRI signals with the underlying vascular organization...

..Building on our pervious findings, we will explore the spatial correspondence of fMRI signals with the underlying vascular organization...

..Unexpectedly, the MHC class I genes of humans and mice have no one-to-one correspondence (orthology) and this pattern is reiterated in many other mammalian species...

..Foremost, the correspondence between vasomotor activity and electrical events in the cells which comprise arterioles is undefined...

..successfully tested so far in this model, and to expand the list of tested drugs in an attempt to establish a correspondence between animal and human drug treatments and to validate the rodent model...

..However, because the study of brain functional connectivity is in its infancy, the probable correspondence between supposed 'top down' neural system influence and higher-order executive cognition has never ..

..integrating NIRS data with genetic markers, neuropsychological and physiological measures, and testing the correspondence of NIRS with other functional neuroimaging techniques...

..Additionally, this model was helpful in identifying a putative one-to-one correspondence with elements of a potent non-peptide ligand (T-98475)...

..via the "addressed phonology"-learning to read 60 Hangul characters that do not follow grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence (GPC) rules, whereas the other half will be trained to learn the Hangul via the "assembled phonology...

..via the "addressed phonology"-learning to read 60 Hangul characters that do not follow grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence (GPC) rules, whereas the other half will be trained to learn the Hangul via the "assembled phonology...

..However, the anatomical correspondence among MVUs which supply a fiber or fiber bundle is not understood...

..engineered mice have proven the roles of several transcription factors and signaling molecules, and the correspondence with human pituitary disease is outstanding...

..Dr. Caffrey will use this correspondence to test two aspects of the stalk theory as a basis for biomembrane fusion, and also test a hypothesis about ..

..The DD paradigm is promising in its ability to provide unique insight into the degree of correspondence between a rather specific behavioral effect and that drug's activity in a specific neurotransmitter system...

..However, because the study of brain functional connectivity is in its infancy, the probable correspondence between supposed `top-down'neural system influence and higher-order executive cognition has never been ..

..Much of the problem in this regard results from a lack of correspondence in the profile of androgens that the human secretes from its adrenal cortex among the commonly utilized ..

..resolutions of 15-20 microns to examine neoplastic changes in tissue from various organ systems and establish correspondence with histopathology...

..However, because the study of brain functional connectivity is in its infancy, the probable correspondence between supposed `top-down' neural system influence and higher-order executive cognition has never been ..

..the nature of Pb- induced changes in NMDA and MK-801 sensitivity at the level of the whole animal, any correspondence between sensitivity changes and NMDA receptor complex changes, and the conditions under which sensitivity ..

..This project aims to test the correspondence between diffusion MRI and the distribution of myelinated fibers in the primate brain...

..This project aims to test the correspondence between diffusion MRI and the distribution of myelinated fibers in the primate brain...

..our experimental model of revision joint replacement in an earlier funding period, and established its correspondence with clinical studies...

..series of studies aims 1) to establish age differences social judgment biases in a new context assessing the correspondence bias and 2) to examine the joint influence of plausible mechanisms accounting for these age differences: ..

..will be randomly assigned to 1 of 3 treatment formats (group meetings designed to appeal to women aged 25- 34, correspondence course, no-treatment control)...