Editor's Corner: Assessment Protocols

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

Rethinking the Resident Assessment Protocols.

To the Editor: We are writing on behalf of interRAI, a 26country research network whose members developed the Nursing Home Resident Assessment Instrument and the 18 Resident Assessment Protocols (RAPs) for the Minimum Data Set, Version 2.0 (MDS V2.0). The recent article by Dosa et al. raises some interesting issues related to the RAPs, but it would be useful to take a somewhat broader view than...

Assessment of Service Protocols Adaptability

Protocol adaptation between services is a key functionality for ensuring successful interactions. Previous work has mainly interested in either compatibility analysis which targets at the direct service interaction, or constructing adapters for service protocols. In this paper, we are rather interested in characterizing whether two service protocols are adaptable without constructing an adapter...

Self - assessment corner Coma during Salmonella typhimurium septicaemia

Accepted 18 November 1996 A 32-year-old man who had regularly been consuming heroin was admitted with general weakness. Temperature was 37.5°C, pulse, blood pressure and clinical examination were normal except for a painful swelling of the right leg; there were no abdominal complaints. Laboratory findings were: white blood cell count 14.5 x 109/l, creatinine 171 ,umol/l, creatine kinase 41 508 ...

Self-assessment corner Palpitations in a 43-year-old man