Are specialized home care clinics and the Doctor net exclusive to each other?

Home Care, Hospitalizations, and Doctor Visits

This study estimates the effects of formal home care on hospitalizations and doctor visits. We compare the effects of medicallyand non-medically-related home care and investigate heterogeneous effects by age group and informal care availability. Two-part models are estimated, using data from Switzerland. In this federal country, home care policy is decentralized into cantons (i.e. states). The ...

We are very much like each other

Are spondyloarthropathies adequately referred from primary care to specialized care?

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the degree of agreement between primary care physicians and rheumatologists when evaluating the referral criteria in patients with suspected early spondyloarthropathy (Spa). MATERIAL AND METHODS Patients with suspected early Spa (according to predefined clinical referral criteria) were sent by primary care physicians to early Spa units (where a rheumatologist evaluated t...

--The results of intervention studies are always reliable and generalizable to other groups?

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Christoph von der Malsburg How Are Neural Signals Related to Each Other and to the World ?

The core of this paper is a discussion of how the physical signals of the nervous system acquire significance and meaning on the basis of relationships with each other and with the environment. Signal relations are discussed in terms of coherence (defined as lack of resistance), prediction, intentionality, inner reality and meaning. The original and most basic type of signal relation has the fo...