Multiple Injuries—A Medical and a Methodological Challenge

Identifying functional decline: a methodological challenge

BACKGROUND Functional decline (FD) in older people has commonly been measured in the hospital setting with instruments which have been validated on decrease over time in capacity to undertake basic activities of daily living (ADL). In a nonhospitalized sample of older people (independently community dwelling, but potentially on the cusp of FD), it is possible that other measures could be used t...

Medical Tourism Overseas: A Challenge to Kuwait’s Healthcare System

Introduction: The State of Kuwait spends large sums of governmental funds on sending patients abroad to receive medical treatment. This study aimed to explain the rationale behind receiving primary medical care overseas, given the expense and inconvenience, from the perspective of Kuwaiti patients whose applications were approved. Methods: The survey was ...

The renewal of medical education in Iran: progress and challenge

Spatiotemporal Scales of Non-equilibrium Community Dynamics: a Methodological Challenge

mechanisms that prevent competitive exclusion either by the increased mortality of the competitive superiors [IDH] or by the permanent rearrangement of the competitive dominance hierarchy [GCC]. Very strong disturbances and extreme environmental changes result in communities of low diversity. Low-level (infrequent,low intensity or small spatial scale) occurrences of these mechanisms cannot prev...

Experimental practices in economics: a methodological challenge for psychologists?

This target article is concerned with the implications of the surprisingly different experimental practices in economics and in areas of psychology relevant to both economists and psychologists, such as behavioral decision making. We consider four features of experimentation in economics, namely, script enactment, repeated trials, performance-based monetary payments, and the proscription agains...