PURPOSE To explore patient demographics and motivations in choosing refractive surgery (RS) or contact lenses (CL) and factors influencing their choice of practice. METHODS A questionnaire was presented to 212 RS and 115 CL patients at four RS centres and three CL centres, respectively. The authors, with consent from the clinics and patients, collected all data. No patient or clinic refused t...

This article aimed to determine the recruitment rate of chronic stroke survivors to cross-sectional studies and to determine their retention at the two days of assessments. Participants after six months of a unilateral stroke were screened for eligibility and invited to participate in two cross-sectional studies, by telephone. The number of people who were screened, eligible, and successfully r...

Results: Forty-three of 117 patients had no prior warfarin treatment and were eligible. Five declined to participate.Twenty patients were randomized to a standard initiation dose of 5 mg daily. Eighteen patients were randomized to model-based dosing. All but one participant received the assigned initiation dose. Blood draw to dosage calculation time (including genotyping) required approximately...

BACKGROUND We aimed to determine how response to a parent-completed postal questionnaire measuring development, behaviour, impairment, and parental concerns and anxiety, varies in different European centres. METHODS Prospective cohort study of 3 year old children, with and without congenital toxoplasmosis, who were identified by prenatal or neonatal screening for toxoplasmosis in 11 centres i...

Many benefits of online communities---such as obtaining new information, opportunities, and social connections---increase with size. Thus, a "successful'' community often evokes an image hundreds thousands users, practitioners researchers alike have sought to devise methods achieve growth thereby, success. On the other hand, small communities exist in droves many persist their smallness over ti...