I HE J. H. Ames School, a labora tory school at Wisconsin State University in River Falls, completes a third year of use of hand-designed modular scheduling this year. Planning and implementation of this mode of education involved 100 students, grades six through nine. Instructional re sources and building facilities available dur ing this period could be considered adequate to superior, but we...

Community pharmacies are balancing between business (selling medicines and other products) and healthcare (using the pharmacists' knowledge in order to improve drug utilization). This balance could be affected by regulations decided upon by politicians, but also influenced by others. The aim of this study was to explore important stakeholders' views on community pharmacy and community pharmacis...

OBJECTIVES In the last few years there have been changes in the pattern of consumption of antihypertensive drugs in Spain. This study aimed to describe the pattern of use in Spain from 1995 to 2001, its compliance with guidelines, and its economic impact. An aim of particular interest for our study was the impact of angiotensin II receptor antagonists on the consumption of the drugs from other ...

(ISI) in 1987 and received its inaugural impact factor in the 1989 Journal Citation Reports ® (JCR ®) 1). For various reasons however, no bibliometric indicators were issued between 1995 and 1997 2). In this article we present some estimates of the 'missing' three years, so that a continuous bibliometric history for INDUSTRIAL HEALTH can be analyzed for the first time. Impact factors are derive...

Dr. Perry is associate professor, Centre for Nursing and Health Studies, Athabasca University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. W hat does it mean to "live one's mission" as a caregiver in a Catholic health care institution? Dur ing three years I spent as a clinical nurse educator in a Catholic hospital, I often asked nurses to tell me about those times in their careers when they felt satisfied that ...

Worldwide, millions of office workers use a computer. Reports of adverse health effects due to computer use have received considerable media attention. This systematic review summarises the evidence for a relationship between the duration of work time spent using the computer and the incidence of hand-arm and neck-shoulder symptoms and disorders. Several databases were systematically searched u...

The aim of this analysis was to estimate the geographical variation in the prevalence of physician-diagnosed asthma and treatment practice for asthma in young adults. The results are based on an ecological analysis of 34 centres in 14 countries, in which a total of 17,029 randomly selected subjects (52% females, age 20-48 yrs) underwent a structured interview and spirometry as part of the Europ...

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The aim of the paper was to systematically review the literature on computer-based psychological treatments for depression and conduct a meta-analysis of the RCT studies, including examining variables which may effect outcomes. Database and hand searches were made using specific search terms and inclusion criteria. The review included a total of 40 studies (45 published papers), and 19 RCTs (23...

This study investigates student success in an online introductory statistics class. We examine the impact of several variables: amount of time that a student watches instructor-made videos (IMV), the nature of communication between the student and the instructor, and the amount of time spent on completing the online assignments and exams on student grades in an introductory level online statist...