1 Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2 Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK National Institute for Health Research Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation T...

British Association of Dermatologists and British Photodermatology Group guidelines for the safe and effective use of psoralen–ultraviolet A therapy 2015 T.C. Ling, T.H. Clayton, J. Crawley, L.S. Exton, V. Goulden, S. Ibbotson, K. McKenna, M.F. Mohd Mustapa, L.E. Rhodes, R. Sarkany and R.S. Dawe Dermatology Centre and Dermatology Research Centre, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Salford R...

In this paper, we argue for the importance of understanding hospital closings and relocations. Broad descriptive data on closings, relocations, and other reconfigurations of beds in 52 large and mid-size U.S. cities are presented. The period covered is 1937 to 1980. Two contrasting outlooks on hospital closings and relocations are offered. As hypothesized, smaller and less specialized nonteachi...

Dunhill Medical Trust Research Fellow, Academic Unit of Elderly Care & Rehabilitation, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Duckworth Lane, Bradford, UK Professor of Elderly Care Medicine, Academic Unit of Elderly Care & Rehabilitation, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Duckworth Lane, B...

This article proposes a semi-parametric stochastic frontier model (SPSF) in which components of the technology and of technical efficiency are represented using semi-parametric methods and estimated in a Bayesian framework. The approach is illustrated in an application to US farm data. The analysis shows important scale economies for small and medium herds and constant return to scale for large...

provident or " contracting out " nature, is to-day of much public interest. We venture to suggest that the voluntary principle is of paramount importance for the really effective working of the hospitals, and that by an organised effort that principle can not only be maintained but greatly extended. We have in Lewisham, Deptford and Greenwich proved this to be possible through the Hospitals Wel...

1 Nuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Paediatrics, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh...

The purpose of this article is to discuss whether the right to self-determination is the only and the best principle in health law for care providers to support their clients with an intellectual disability, or whether other principles such as the right to development, the right to good care and the right to protection might lead to a better protection of the rights of clients in this field of ...

Understanding how sensory pathways transmit information under natural conditions remains a major goal in neuroscience. The vestibular system plays a vital role in everyday life, contributing to a wide range of functions from reflexes to the highest levels of voluntary behavior. Recent experiments establishing that vestibular (self-motion) processing is inherently multimodal also provide insight...