Süheyla DOĞAN BULUT1, Serdar BULUT2, Verda TÜZER3, Mehmet AK4, Emine AK5, Cebrail KISA3, Çiğdem AYDEMİR3, Erol GÖKA6 1Clinic of Psychiatry, Gazi Mustafa Kemal State Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 2Clinic of Psychiatry, Etimesgut Military Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 3Clinic of Psychiatry, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 4Clinic of Psychiatry, Gülhane Military Medical Academy,...

INTRODUCTION Individuals with multiple versus single suicide attempts present a more severe clinical picture and may be at greater risk for suicide. Yet group differences within military samples have been vastly understudied. PURPOSE The objective is to determine demographic, diagnostic, and psychosocial differences, based on suicide attempt status, among military inpatients admitted for suic...

BACKGROUND AND AIM The picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a healthcare system technology which manages medical images and integrates equipment through a network. There are some theories about the use and acceptance of technology by people to describe the behavior and attitudes of end users towards information technologies. We investigated the influential factors on users' acce...

background and objectives: operating room (or) scheduling is key to optimal operating room productivity. the significant uncertainty associated with surgery duration renders scheduling of surgical operation a challenging task. this paper proposes a novel computational stochastic model to optimize scheduling of surgeries with uncertain durations. the model considers various surgical operation co...

The purpose of our study was to pinpoint the hallmarks of military radiology during the first 20 years after the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. X-ray examination become indispensable for the diagnosis and treatments of military wounds. Initially, x-ray apparatus were installed in permanent military hospitals. The evolution of technology and the increasing needs for immediate tr...

Psychiatry decided to train selected A.T.S. Officers as Military Social Workers in various psychiatric hospitals. The following is a brief survey of the work done since that time till March, 1946, in the largest military hospital dealing with psychoneurotic cases. The range of cases dealt with has been varied but marital and family difficulties have been amongst the most frequent and difficult....

OBJECTIVE Our objective in this report was to describe the epidemiologic features of and workload associated with pediatric admissions to 12 US Army military hospitals deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. METHODS The Patient Administration Systems and Biostatistics Activity database was queried for all local national patients <18 years of age who were admitted to deployed Army hospitals in Afgha...

OBJECTIVE This report aims at both estimation of the rates of overall nosocomial and urinary tract infection (UTI) and their linear trends as well as studying the potential risk factors of patients admitted to Al-Hada, Rehab and Prince Sultan military hospitals and developed nosocomial UTIs (NUTIs). METHODS A case-control study on 206 discharged patients with confirmed UTI and 618 controls wi...