ELECTRO-OCULOGRAPHY has been established as a valuable clinical procedure for measuring indirectly the standing corneo-fundal potential, of importance in the investigation of retinal and choroidal function. Although the technique of clinical recording is not very complicated, the load of a great many records is a burden for the technical staff of an electro-diagnostic clinic. Semiautomatic reco...

Controversies have been reported in recent studies regarding the risk of T.B contamination for hospital personnel.some of the experts consider all of the hospital staff in high risk groupd whill others consider the risk only for hospital staff working in the  wards in which T.B patients are hospitalized.therefore in this study tuberculin test results of hospital clinical staff was compared to t...

A questionnaire was distributed to staff members of a 28-bed general hospital psychiatry unit to determine and compare staff perceptions of the value of psychotherapies and the role of the disciplines in conducting treatments. Marked interdisciplinary differences were reported in attitudes toward the use of psychopharmacologic agents, the importance of diagnostic evaluation, the value of psycho...

The accurate diagnosis of leprosy is important to both individuals and to the community. The diagnosis of leprosy is based on clinical examination. However, the reliability of clinical assessment of sensation in skin lesions and thickness of peripheral nerves on palpation has not been well studied, due to the lack of a gold standard. We report an inter-tester reliability study of the clinical a...