ABSTRACT: This paper examines eight published reviews each reporting results from several related trials. Each review pools the results from the relevant trials in order to evaluate the efficacy of a certain treatment for a specified medical condition. These reviews lack consistent assessment

to be potentially valuable to detect change in life satis-faction during the course of clinical intervention. Further, the scale shows discrim-inant validity from emotional well-being measures. The SWLS is recommended as a complement to scales that focus on psychopathology or emotional well-being because

solution, while robustness is evaluated with respect to implementation issues, such as interpolation and optimization, and image content, including partial overlap and image degradation. Our results demonstrate that subvoxel accuracy with respect to the stereotactic reference solution can be achieved

occurs at rest and is less affected by motion. 2 There are 2 important questions to consider when evaluating a patient with low back pain: (1) Is there a serious disease, such as metastatic cancer, causing the pain? (2) Is there any neurologic compromise? Assessment of historical clues

The use of an alternatye methodology to study transfer of learning in clinical instruction during medical school was investigated. The environment in which clinical instruction takes place was examined, after which hypotheses were proposed and tested in a quasi-experimental design. The first phase

oscillation of the ankle as a means of

Several literatures have attempted to analyse the causes and effects of stress. Some methods of medical evaluation and research design have established a dynamic and causal relationship between exposure; others have linked it with post traumatic experiences. explores these developments and iden

Pacing and resynchronization therapy Association between frequent cardiac resynchronization therapy optimization and long-term clinical response: a post hoc analysis of the Clinical Evaluation on Advanced Resynchronization (CLEAR) pilot study

A description and clinical evaluation of the small-pupil binocular indirect ophthalmoscope is presented. This instrument can be used as an ordinary indirect stereoscopic ophthalmoscope. In addition, it performs better than available instru-ments in different situations, for instance when

IN 1929 Allen ' described a test to be used for clinical evaluation of arterial blood flow to the hand. The patient was first in-structed to make a tight fist for 1 minute to squeeze the blood out of the hand. During compression of either the radial or ulnar artery, Allen evaluated the flow