BACKGROUND In Singapore, SingHealth Polyclinics (SHP) is an accredited Family Medicine (FM) training centre which managed 1.8 million primary care patient-visits in 2012. To promote research in the institution, research consultation clinics (RCC) are being introduced in 2010 to enable free face-to-face consultation between experienced and novice researchers on specific research topics. Each RCC...

Abduelmula R Abduelkarem is Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Ajman University of Science and Technology Network, Ajman, United Arab Emirates; Hawa J El-Shareif is Adult Endocrinologist, Endocrine Department, Tripoli Medical Centre (Tripoli University, Faculty of Medicin...

BACKGROUND The quality system in Estonia is a payfor-performance scheme, rewarding family doctors for the quality of care they provide. This study examines the impact of the quality system on the workload of family doctors in Estonia. AIM The aim of this study was to explore differences in the workload of family doctors participating in the clinical quality system and those not participating....

This paper shows how one single-chip ATM switch developed with ASIC technology has been modified to implement a reconfigurable ATM switch in a VIRTEX FPGA. With this new approach it is possible to develop a flexible ATM switch, using partial RTR to deploy new features to the network.

Studies of the neuronal mechanisms of perisaccadic vision often lack the resolution needed to determine important changes in receptive field (RF) structure. Such limited analytical power can lead to inaccurate descriptions of visuomotor processing. To address this issue, we developed a precise, probabilistic technique that uses a generalized linear model (GLM) for mapping the visual RFs of fron...

PURPOSE To describe the current pharmacy practice in the general public hospitals based on self-reported practice by pharmacists, explore the awareness of the pharmacists of pharmaceutical care concept, identify their willingness to implement pharmaceutical care practice, and identify the barriers that may limit its implementation. METHODS Eighty hospital pharmacists working in four general p...