OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study was to better understand how patients with depression perceive the use of MADRS-S in primary care consultations with GPs. DESIGN Qualitative study. Focus group discussion and analysis through Systematic Text Condensation. SETTING Primary Health Care, Region Västra Götaland, Sweden. SUBJECTS Nine patients with mild/moderate depression who participated...

The aim of the present study is to explore the form and function of clarification request sequences in interaction involving children with cochlear implants. Clarification request sequences are investigated in everyday interaction, and it is demonstrated that children with CI use both general/open and specific requests for clarification. It is also shown that there is relatively lower frequency...

The main objectives of this study were to determine the occurrence and potential causative factors of Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA) in native cattle and water buffaloes from southwest of Iran. Fifty-three anemic animals (37 cattle and 16 buffaloes) were studied. A full clinical history and physical examinations were undertaken for all animals. Four clinically healthy cattle and four h...

This paper presents a digital filtering algorithm which clarifies dysphonic speech with the speaker’s individuality preserved. The study deals with the clarification of oesophageal speech and the speech of patients with cerebral palsy, and the filtering ability is being evaluated by listening experiments. Over 20,000 patients are currently suffered from laryngeal cancer in Japan, and the only t...

Receptors for mineralocorticoid hormones are expressed in myocardial cells and evidence obtained in animal studies suggests that activation of these receptors causes cardiac damage independent from blood pressure levels. In the last years, many of the issues related to the effects of aldosterone on the heart have received convincing answers and clinical investigation has focused on a variety of...