background the vacuum assisted closure (vac) therapy has revolutionized the modern wound care. we developed a new concept of ‘vac at home’ in order to decrease the hospital cost. methods the study was conducted in a private hospital from january 2009 to december 2010. only those patients were included among whom the wounds were not complicated by concomitant injury and the patients were otherwi...

introduction: as the elderly population increases, chronic diseases and disabilities also become more prevalent. home care programs as hospital services supplement, not only can prevent elderly from get worse in their disabilities but also make it easier for governments to manage elderly people's needs therefore, we aimed to determine the home visit services provided for elderly residing i...

A nearly 600 percent rise in incarceration rates has characterized the past four decades 1 such that, today, more than two million Americans are incarcerated in local, state, or federal penitentiaries. 2 In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Stanford law professor Michelle Alexander posits that this dramatic rise in incarceration rates represents a backlash to th...

Reading the study by Zabala-Baños et al1 on the prevalence of mental disorders and associated risk factors in three correctional facilities in Spain is of great interest since it addresses one of the first-magnitude healthcare issues in prisons in our country. However, I would like to comment on some aspects of its design, since these may have an impact on the validity of its conclusions. First...