Anecdotal evidence suggested that the management of patients with eye complaints in the Emergency Department (ED) at King's College Hospital, London was suboptimal. Acute ophthalmology is often poorly covered at undergraduate level in the United Kingdom which can affect patient safety. Furthermore, it was notoriously difficult to obtain specialist advice within working hours. Contact lens (CL) ...

Previous studies have shown differences in clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) between men and women, including mean age at onset of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS), types of OCS, comorbid disorders, course, and prognosis. The aim of this study was to compare male and female patients with OCD on several demographic and clinical characteristics. All new patients with OCD...

Parkinson's disease can progressively affect daily function and multidisciplinary teamwork is essential to provide high quality care. The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued guidelines regarding diagnosis, follow-up, and multidisciplinary care. This quality improvement project sought to measure and improve the compliance of service provision against the guidelines...

Methods for systematically following up and auditing health promotion have been in demand for a considerable period of time. Quality assurance as an auditing method has opened up new opportunities in this area. On the basis of Donabedian's 'triad' of structure, process and outcome, the theoretical preconditions for and implementation of a number of successful health promotion programmes/ projec...

Hospital-Acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults. In psychiatric patients these risks are increased due to multiple factors including poor mobility, restraint, catatonia, sedation, and conventional antipsychotic use. Diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric patients presenting with signs and symptoms of a VTE can be delayed due to a patie...

To secure technological and industrial competitiveness, the KOSDAQ market is implementing a technology-growth listing system. In general, such listed companies have been recognized for their prowess at time of listing, but there are few cases where technology has commercialized or realized. Nevertheless, largest shareholder sold shares after lock-up period using system to obtain capital gain. A...

This paper models firms’ choices between alternative means of presenting information, and the effects of different presentations on market prices when investors have limited attention and processing power. In a market equilibrium with partially attentive investors, we examine the effects of alternative: levels of discretion in pro forma earnings disclosure, methods of accounting for employee op...

The last several year has witnessed an explosion of interest in business collaboration. This paper looks at the latest form: collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment (CPFR). It looks at the possible benefits of business collaboration based on several pilot projects and pro-forma analysis and describes in some detail a case study, focusing on the mechanics of the CPFR process and its...

Regulation G requires all companies to quantitatively reconcile pro forma earnings with GAAP earnings. This paper provides three findings related to the impact of reconciliations on mispricing of pro forma earnings. First, prior to Reg G, we find that mis-pricing of pro forma earnings is limited to firms with low reconciliation quality. There is no evidence of mispricing for firms with high rec...