o b jective: to evaluate the accuracy of surgeons’ intraoperative diagnosis in open appendectomy and compare it with the histopathology examination results afterwards. m ethods: this was a cross-sectional retrospective study accomplished in namazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences, in a one-year period from 2007 to 2008. medical charts of all the patients who were ...

Rubber mats offer a possibility to increase lying comfort for sows with positive effects on sow lying behavior and health. However, until now, no information has been reported about the relationship between the softness of rubber mats and the pressure load on certain body areas of sows. We used a total of 68 (40 multiparous, 28 primiparous) German Landrace × German Landrace sows with a BW withi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the time trade off (TTO) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS The TTO was applied in 194 patients with RA with increasing difficulty in performing activities of daily living. The test-retest reliability was determined in 35 of these patients and was calculated by the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Cons...

The Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG) is a Citizens Based Organisation primarily concerned to prevent further expansion of nuclear activities at the Bradwell site in Essex. Its aim is to protect the people and environment of the River Blackwater estuary and its surrounding area, now and in the future, from the risks and dangers of radioactivity by preventing the further development o...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Tinnitus is characterized as a perception of numerous auditory sounds in absence of external stimulus. Tinnitus can have a considerable consequence on a person's quality of life, and is considered to be very complicated to quantify. The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of Urdu translation of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) in Paki...

OBJECTIVES To linguistically and culturally adapt the Child-OIDP, an Oral Health-Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) index, into Spanish for use among adolescents, and to validate it by evaluating the psychometric properties of the self-administered version. STUDY DESIGN Following a forward - backward translation procedure, the English version of the questionnaire was translated by independent t...

Sixty-four elderly hearing aid users completed a shortened version of the Hearing Aid Performance Inventory (HAPI) on two occasions, separated by 1 to 2 months. The test-retest correlation was .80 for the overall scale and ranged from .70 to .85 for the four factor ratings. The mean overall rating and the mean ratings on each of the four factors demonstrated nonsignificant shifts from test to r...

BACKGROUND The Japanese Society for Surgery of the Foot (JSSF) is developing a QOL questionnaire instrument for use in pathological conditions related to the foot and ankle. The main body of the outcome instrument (the Self-Administered Foot Evaluation Questionnaire, SAFE-Q version 2) consists of 34 questionnaire items, which provide five subscale scores (1: Pain and Pain-Related; 2: Physical F...

Background: Psoriasis is a complex disease with lifelong emotional and social consequences for affected patients. It also reduces the patients' quality of life and requires a long-term management. Therefore, in addition to appropriate treatment of the disease, selfmanagement strategies to improve patient health and quality of life are essential. On the other hand, smartphone-based applications ...

OBJECTIVE To translate, adapt, validate and assess the sensitivity to change of a Spanish version of the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ-S). METHODS The FIQ-S was adapted following the translation and back-translation methodology. Female patients with fibromyalgia (FM) were invited to participate. Reliability was analyzed by the Spearman correlation coefficient between test and retest....