Introduction: Because of the threat that surgery creates for the whole body, anxiety or stress is one of the most common problems before surgery, on the other hand, hospitalization, itself, can be associated with depression and anxiety that all of these affect the duration of hospitalization and process of patient recovery. Therefore, current study was performed to investigate the relationship ...

The structure of the Medicaid program varies widely among the States. Examined in this article is the relationship between certain characteristics of the State Medicaid programs and the length of stay of patients who are discharged from psychiatric units in general hospitals. It has been found that setting limits on the number of reimbursable days leads to shorter lengths of stay and that, afte...

BACKGROUND Physical disorders are commonly comorbid with depression in children attending general medical facilities. However, the depression component is rarely recognised. METHODS A questionnaire on sociodemographics and history of presenting medical conditions was administered together with the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) to all 11-year-old to 17-year-old children attending at ni...

This paper describes the results of a literature survey to determine the most common methods of analysis and measures of data location employed in journal papers that explore the agronomic and economic differences between genetically modified (GM) and non-GM crop varieties. A total of 108 articles were reviewed and the most common measure of location employed was the arithmetic mean. Only a sma...

OBJECTIVES To adapt the Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS), to a Chinese context, and explore the preference towards patient-centred communication among physicians and patients with the Chinese-revised Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (CR-PPOS). DESIGN A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study. SETTING Clinical settings from eight medical units, including four community h...

rnany as possible of the large mental hospitals within the next fifteen years, basing the future service on psychiatric units and community care. If psychiatric units in general hospitals are to be the basis of the service, it is vital that there should be a great deal thought and discussion before it is finally decided how they are to be organised. None of us want to keep the present huge and ...

BACKGROUND Since 2008 the Verbundweiterbildung(plus) programme of the Competence Centre General Practice Baden-Wuerttemberg offers continual improvement with regards to content and structure of general practice training. The programme uses the didactical concept of the CanMEDs competencies, which were developed in Canada, as a postgraduate medical training framework. Train the trainer (TTT)-pro...

UNLABELLED We ascertained whether a public health stroke unit reduces the length of hospitalization, the rate of inpatient fatality, and the mortality rate 30 days after the stroke. METHODS We compared a cohort of stroke patients managed on a general neurology/medical ward with a similar cohort of stroke patients managed in a stroke unit. The in-patient fatality rates and 30-day mortality rat...

PURPOSE Rates of serious medication errors in three pediatric inpatient units (intensive care, general medical, and general surgical) were measured before and after introduction of unit-based clinical pharmacists. METHODS Error rates on the study units and similar patient care units in the same hospital that served as controls were determined during six- to eight-week baseline periods and thr...

In this paper we study the steady state availability of main k-out-of-n: F and secondary subsystems having general repair time distribution. When more than k units of main subsystem fail, then the main subsystem shuts off the secondary subsystem. The life time distributions of the main units and that of secondary subsystem are exponentially distributed. A repair facility having single repairman...