s of Papers Included in the Report Algali, Fenton and Convery (1996): Reimplantation of traumatically avulsed permanent incisors in children attending Dublin Dental Hospital. Journal of Dental Research 75 1242 Abstract Forty-two teeth in 35 patients who were treated between 1988-90 were evaluated. Only those with a minimum of one-year follow-up were included. More boys (22) than girls (13) were...

Key Messages 1. A randomised controlled trial was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a computerised, errorless, learning-based, training programme to enhance schizophrenic patients’ cognitive functions and vocational outcomes. 2. A total of 80 Chinese with schizophrenia were randomly assigned to a 4-week, computerassisted, errorless-learning (CAEL) group, a therapistadministered (TA) g...

Recent skin self-examination and doctor visits in relation to melanoma risk and tumour depth L.J. Titus, K. Clough-Gorr, T.A. Mackenzie, A. Perry, S.K. Spencer, J. Weiss, S. Abrahams-Gessel and M.S. Ernstoff Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, U.S.A. Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hood Center...

CONTEXT This article outlines the planning, implementation and preliminary evaluation of a research capacity building (RCB) initiative within a predominantly rural Canadian health authority, Interior Health (IH), including initiative characteristics and key activities designed to initiate and enhance health services research capacity within the organization. Interior Health is one of 5 geograph...

P. S. Sockolow1; P. R. Crawford2,3; H. P. Lehmann2,4,5 1College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 2Division of Health Sciences Informatics, School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; 3Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; 4Department of Health ...

The long-awaited Wills Implementation Committee Report (CoA 2000), which was completed by November last year, has now been released. Wills’ earlier Report (CoA 1998) identified the need for the development of health services research capacity in Australia, and this new Report recommends how this should be done, through the establishment and support of several large multi-disciplinary centres. T...

To promote health services research in stroke rehabilitation, we gathered information about stroke rehabilitation structures, processes, and outcomes (SPO), using extant databases and the Donabedian theoretical model of health services evaluation. We found that, in the United States, over S3.6 billion was spent by third-party payers in 1992 on rehabilitation, including stroke. Total disability-...