Chiropody services.

Textbook of Chiropody

THIS is a most interesting and informative book, and it is one which will fill a genuine gap on the over-burdened bookshelves of medical literature. It covers all the surgical diseases of the colon. The descriptions of the signs, symptoms and diagnosis, the preand post-operative treatment are lucid and written in a fluent style. On reading the book one gets the impression that the main attentio...

Chiropody and scientific attitude.

Targeted screening for diabetes in community chiropody clinics.

Population screening for diabetes mellitus is of uncertain value. We therefore assessed the value of screening amongst community chiropody clinic attenders in Liverpool. All attenders aged between 40 and 75 years during a 3-month period were offered screening by urine glucose self-testing, 2 hours post-prandially, backed up with glucose tolerance tests (GTT) for positive respondents. Of 1058 pa...

Services Access Services Policy Services Repository Services

The widespread use of the Internet as a communication medium has opened the possibility to carry out software projects with a team of geographically distributed software engineers cooperating and communicating over the Internet. In the future, this development approach will likely become increasingly common. We argue that this necessitates the use of Internet-based Computer-Aided Software Engin...

Body mass index and health service utilisation in the older population: results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.

BACKGROUND obesity is associated with higher healthcare costs in older people; however, estimates are predominantly based on the use of primary and secondary services. Our objective was to estimate the effect of overweight and obesity on the use and cost of allied health services among middle-aged and older people. METHODS the study used data from The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (TILDA...