Using the Bayley-III to assess neurodevelopmental delay: which cut-off should be used?

Which measure should be used to assess the patient's functional outcome after distal radius fracture?

The Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) and the Patient-Rated Wrist Evaluation (PRWE) scores appear most frequently in the literature when assessing functional outcome after distal radius fracture. We aimed to evaluate if the two questionnaires correlate. We reviewed 258 cases of adults who sustained a distal radius fracture over a one year period. At mean follow-up of 17 months the...

Which treatment option should be used?

What criteria should be used to assess troponin assays?

E. Smith has pointed out that the use of cryocrit in the investigation of cryoglobulinemia has analytical and clinical limitations, an observation with which we concur in general. The emphasis of our case study, however, was not to make a judgment on which technique should be used, but rather to focus on the importance of including cryoglobulin analysis in the differential and to address the ne...

Which Graphical Approaches should be Used to Represent Medical Knowledge?

Medical knowledge is growing both in quantity and complexity. Although sources of medical knowledge have been digitalized, the way the knowledge they contain is presented to users has not changed and is still highly text-based. However, it has been shown that this information could be presented more efficiently using graphical approaches, such as graphical languages and information visualizatio...

MRS Shimming: An Important Point Which Should not be Ignored

Introduction: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a well-known device for analyzing the biological fluids metabolically. Obtaining accurate and reliable information via MRS needs a homogeneous magnetic field in order to provide well-defined peaks and uniform water suppression. There are lots of reasons which can disturb the magnetic field homogeneity which can be corrected by a proc...