OBJECTIVES To develop and test a standardised clinical handover discharge strategy for improving information transfer between private mental health hospitals and community practitioners. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A quality improvement intervention using collaborative, iterative methods to develop a standardised discharge and outcome assessment strategy. 150 patient participants were co...

Objective: This study reports a clinical case of headache accompanied by epilepsy that showed improvement with Korean medicine treatments.Methods: A 67-year-old woman was treated therapies, including <i>Cheongshimondam-tang</i>, acupuncture, electroacupuncture, and cupping, for 14 days. The response before after treatment evaluated using the Numerical Rating Scale, Headache Impact T...

Freshly enucleated rabbit eyes were refrigerated at +4 degrees C under standard eye bank conditions for 2, 6, 9, and 21 days. One group of corneas with a scleral rim were excised and placed in M-K medium, stored for 18, 24, or 48 hr at +4 degrees C; they were then removed, and endothelial cell viability was evaluated with nitroblue tetrazolium. The cells were examined by light microscopy and sc...

Amikacin 5 mg/kg q 48 hr IM for 5-14 tx Maruska 1994 Carbenicillin 200 mg/kg SQ, IM, or IC q 24 hr Crawshaw 1992 Ceftazadime 20 mg/kg IM q 48-72 hr Wright and Whitaker 2001 Chloramphenicol 50 mg/kg SQ, IM or IC q 24 hr; 20 mg/L bath; 10 mg/mL in 0.5% saline as 24-hr bath Crawshaw 1992; Crawshaw 1992; Menard 1984 Ciprofloxacin 10 mg/kg PO q 24-48 hr for 7 tx; 25-37.5 mg/gal for 6-8 hr bath q 24 ...

Associated liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) is a two-stage hepatectomy technique which can be associated with a hypertrophic stimulus on the future liver remnant (FLR) stronger than other techniques--such as portal vein ligation (PVL). However, the reason of such hypertrophy is still unclear, but it is suggested that liver transection combined with portal ...

If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, at...