Numbers of women discharged from hospital after being treated for acute salpingitis decreased by 40% in Sweden between 1974 and 1984. Several factors argue that this decrease was real, rather than a shift from inpatient to outpatient treatment. (Outpatients here include those treated by general practitioners as well as at hospital outpatient clinics). The decrease was nation wide and included a...

INTRODUCTION We investigated whether event-related potentials (ERP) collected in outpatient settings and analyzed with standardized methods can provide a sensitive and reliable measure of the cognitive deficits associated with early Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS A total of 103 subjects with probable mild AD and 101 healthy controls were recruited at seven clinical study sites. Subjects we...

conclusions our case is the first report of ivus imaging of subclavian stenosis resulting from takayasu’s arteritis and provides insight into the pathology behind such lesions. introduction takayasu’s arteritis (ta) is a chronic, idiopathic, inflammatory disease that affects large elastic arteries, including the aorta and its main branches. no consensus exists currently on the superiority of su...

BACKGROUND Primary epiploic appendagitis (PEA) is a rare cause of abdominal acute or subacute complaints. Diagnosis of PEA is made with ultrasonography (US) or when computed tomography (CT) reveals a characteristic lesion. CASE REPORT We report on two patients with PEA. In one patient PEA was first seen with US and confirmed with contrast enhanced CT, and in the second patient CT without cont...

A 60-year-old woman was seen at the outpatient clinic of the Department of Internal Medicine at Spaarne Hospital, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. Her previous medical history showed a temporal arteriitis in 2001. At that time, biopsies were negative, and the diagnosis was made by magnetic resonance imaging. Treatment with prednisolone resolved her complaints. The prednisolone was slowly tapered to ...

Many experimental trials of community mental health interventions fail to develop testable conceptual models of the specific mechanisms and pathways by which relevant outcomes may occur, thus falling short of usefully interpreting what happens inside the experimental "black box." This paper describes a conceptual model of involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) for persons with severe and persi...

Catter Matil, 2253 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-2253 Ph: (979)845-2142 • Fax: (979) 862-6842 [email protected] • nfs.tamu.edu Optometrists are concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of abnormalities associated with the visual system. Doctors of Optometry (O.D.) evaluate the refractive status of the eye, as well as the selection, design, provision, and adaptation of corrective mea...

Overuse of hospital outpatient clinics in Egypt, due to lack of an effective gatekeeper system, has threatened the sustainability of improved primary care services. In this pilot project in Menoufia in the Nile delta region, the price of direct hospital outpatient visits was increased, encouraging patients to attend primary care clinics first. As a result, direct hospital outpatient utilization...