Clinical Experience with Goal Attainment Scaling in Geriatric Care
Objectives: This article presents a qualitative evaluation of the utility of Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) in geriatric care. GASis an individualized outcome measure particularl...
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Women recovering from first‐time myocardial infarction (MI): a feminist qualitative study
Women recovering from first‐time myocardial infarction (MI): a feminist qualitative study Although myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of death and disablement for wom...
Nebulised sodium cromoglycate in recurrently wheezy preschool children.
A double blind crossover study of nebulised sodium cromoglycate in 27 asthmatic preschool children was carried out over a one year period. All subjects had sufficiently severe a...
Ethnic differences in prevalence of asthma symptoms and bronchial hyperresponsiveness in New Zealand schoolchildren.
Maoris and Pacific Islanders in New Zealand have a higher asthma mortality and hospital admission rates than Europeans. To determine whether difference in asthma prevalence is t...
Random Allocation in Observational Data
Conventional observational epidemiology has an unenviable reputation for generating false-positive findings,1,2 or "scares," as others call them.3 In 1993, for example, the New ...
Management Succession and Administrative Style
This study of management succession is the second of two articles dealing with the events that occurred at a state mental hospital following a change of superintendents. In the ...
Characteristics of Indigenous primary health care models of service delivery: a scoping review protocol
Indigenous populations in colonized countries experience worse health outcomes relative to their non-Indigenous counterparts. In Australia, in the period 2010 to 2012 the estima...
Oxidant—antioxidant imbalance in blood of children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Abstract Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is the most commonly diagnosed rheumatic disease in children and may represent not a single disease, but rather a syndrome of divers...
Integrating children's services in England: national evaluation of children's trusts
Abstract Background Poor co‐ordination of services can have severe consequences for disadvantaged children with complex needs. Since 2003 national and local governments in Engla...
A methodological and philosophical critique of intervention-oriented research.
Intervention-oriented research programs typically yield differences between social classes in the task performance of children and the parent interaction style. It is then concl...
Diagnosing and Managing Advanced Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Clinical staging of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) distinguishes between chronic phase (CP-CML), accelerated phase (AP-CML), and blastic phase (BP-CML), reflecting its natural h...
Child Psychiatric Epidemiology: Current Status and Future Prospects
Objective The purpose of this paper is to present selected findings from child psychiatric epidemiology in areas of prevalence and correlates, and discuss issues in interpreting...