Normal confinement: a domiciliary and hospital study.

Normal confinement: a domiciliary and hospital study.

Domiciliary non-invasive ventilatory devices--a general hospital experience.

Treatment for chronic respiratory failure has advanced since the introduction of domiciliary non-invasive ventilatory devices. This has given a new light of hope for patients with chronic respiratory failure secondary to various causes. We report a series of patients with respiratory failure of different origins and types of management that they received. Four patients received bilevel positive...

Stroke rehabilitation after hospital discharge: a randomized trial comparing domiciliary and day-hospital care.

OBJECTIVES To compare the effectiveness and costs of a new domiciliary rehabilitation service for elderly stroke patients with geriatric day-hospital care. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS Stroke patients aged 55+ who required further rehabilitation after hospital discharge or after referral to geriatricians from the community. SETTING Poole area, East Dorset, a mixed urba...

Simple test for ingested iron in hospital and domiciliary practice.

Widespread use of iron preparations has resulted from recognition of the greater metabolic requirement of iron in pregnancy. The side-effects ascribed to these drugs by patients have made many practitioners doubt that all their patients carry out the prescribed treatment. Indeed, one practitioner has observed that when the antenatal patients were given an iron preparation and told that these ta...

construction and validation of a computerized adaptive translation test (a receptive based study)

آزمون انطباقی رایانه ای (cat) روشی نوین برای سنجش سطح علمی دانش آموزان می باشد. در حقیقت آزمون های رایانه ای با سرعت بالایی به سمت و سوی جایگزین عملی برای آزمون های کاغذی می روند (کینگزبری، هاوسر، 1993). مقاله حاضر به دنبال آزمون انطباقی رایانه ای برای ترجمه می باشد. بدین منظور دو پرسشنامه مشتمل بر 55 تست ترجمه میان 102 آزمودنی و 10 مدرس زبان انگلیسی پخش گردید. پرسشنامه اول میان 102 دانشجوی س...