In Part 1 of this series, we introduced you to the “ABCs” of matching, or “mapping,” clinical questions to resources, databases, and search strategies and identified some of the options likely to be useful to emergency physicians.1 Finding the best evidence is not always easy. The busy clinician faced with a computer terminal, Web connection, and a clinical question may find herself wishing ins...

BACKGROUND Recently, it has been observed that Video Display Terminals (VDTs) usage for long periods can cause some dermatological manifestations on the face. An analytical cross-sectional study was designed in order to determine this relationship. METHODS In this study, 600 office workers were chosen randomly from an organization in Tehran (Iran). The subjects were then divided into two grou...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the effect of different types of activities during rest-break interventions on neck and shoulder muscle activity, muscle discomfort and productivity among symptomatic video display unit (VDU) operators performing prolonged computer terminal work. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Randomized controlled trial was used. Thirty symptomatic VDU operators were randomly assigne...

DED is a display-oriented editor that was designed to add the power and convenience of display terminals to INTERLISPs teletype-oriented structure editor. DED divides the display screen into a Prettypnnt Region and an Interaction Region. The Prettypnnt Region gives a prettyprinted view of the structure being edited; the Interaction Region contains the interaction between the user and INTERLISPs...