BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Assessing poststroke depression may be complicated by aphasia, other cognitive deficits, and several somatic stroke-related symptoms. We studied the possible differences in performance of some commonly used instruments in screening depression after stroke. METHODS We compared the Beck Depression Inventory, Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Visual Analogue Mood Scale...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Pain control in trauma patients should be an integral part of the continuum of care, beginning at the scene with out-of-hospital trauma management, sustained through the evacuation process, and optimized during hospitalization. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a novel application of a pain control medication, currently indicated for the management of chronic and breakth...

BACKGROUND Teamwork is an important component of patient safety. In fact, communication errors are the most common cause of sentinel events and wrong-site operations in the US. Although efforts to improve patient safety through improving teamwork are growing, there is no validated tool to scientifically measure teamwork in the surgical setting. STUDY DESIGN Operating room personnel in 60 hosp...

Stream flow information is essential for many important uses across a broad range of scales, including global water balances, engineering design, flood forecasting, reservoir operations, navigation, water supply, recreation, and environmental management. Growing populations and competing priorities for water, including preservation and restoration of aquatic habitat, are spurring demand for mor...

Faking behavior is one of the main problems personality measures. For this reason, determining potential effects faking on assessment procedures relevant. The aim study has been to examine impact faking, induced in a laboratory setting, predictive validity quasi-ipsative forced-choice (FC) inventory based five-factor model. It also examined whether magnitude varied depending type criteria analy...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Guidelines for medical practice in stroke have been proposed in different countries, but their impact on stroke outcome has not been verified to date. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the American Heart Association guidelines for acute stroke and for transient ischemic attack on first-ever stroke patients. METHODS Three hundred eighty-six first-ever i...