Correspondence to Dr Alex Gillespie, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, UK; A.T.Gillespie{at}lse.ac.uk Background Letters of complaint written by patients ...

BACKGROUND: The Pediatric Balance Scale (PBS) was developed from a modified version of the Berg Balance Scale aiming to obtain a balance scale more appropriate for the child population. OBJECTIVES: To ...

The vast majority of patients with minor stroke achieve what are considered good or excellent outcomes on the modified Rankin Scale (0–1/0–2), yet many are dissatisfied with their outcomes. There is a ...

Introduction: The frequency of adverse events in the operating theatre has been linked to the quality of teamwork and communication. Developing suitable measures of teamwork may play a role in ...

1 McMaster Evidence-based Practice Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 3 ...

bOncological Palliative Medicine, Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine and Palliative Care Centre, Cantonal Hospital, St Gallen, Switzerland cApplied Cachexia Research, Department of ...

Acute ischemic stroke is a leading cause of pediatric death and disability. A clinical scale adapted for children can ensure early detection of candidates for urgent acute ischemic stroke treatment.

Objective Manifestations of SLE can be categorised as type 1 (classic signs and symptoms of SLE) or type 2 (fatigue, widespread pain and brain fog with an unclear relationship to inflammation). While ...

Introduction: To ensure the quality of clinical trial safety data, universal data standards are required. In 2019 the International Neonatal Consortium (INC) published a neonatal adverse event ...

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie ...

Identifying potential determinants of rationality—interpreted as a characteristic of decision makers—is of great relevance from an applied science perspective: both policy makers and industry have a ...