BACKGROUND: This study examines changes in the authorship patterns of chairmen of medicine departments from 1979 through 1990, a time when criteria for authorship were widely debated among medical journal editors. Chairmen were selected to be studied because, due to their leadership position and stature, they are likely to "set ...

An article published last year in the British Medical Journal has illustrated that severe deafness does not preclude a career in medicine. My own experience and that of others prompts me to write that the same is true of dentistry. For patients who are deaf, dentists need to be aware ...

The notion of a rhetoric of science argues that scientific writing is not unproblematically neutral and objective, but rather laden with both theory and value and necessarily persuasive. The nature of persuasion within the profession of medicine is studied here through an analysis of rhetorical strategies at work in medical ...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: We assessed radiologists' perceptions of radiologic and general medical journals. METHODS: Five thousand randomly chosen radiologists (4,200 American College of Radiology (ACR) members and 800 members in training) were surveyed by mail concerning their opinion of selected radiology and major medical journals. The mail survey was followed ...

A small group of editors of general medical journals met informally in Vancouver, British Columbia, in January 1978 to establish guidelines for the format of manuscripts submitted to their journals. The group, now expanded and known as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (also known as the Vancouver Group), ...

The accuracy of references and quotations used to substantiate statements of fact in articles published in 6 frequently cited veterinary journals was examined. Three hundred references were randomly selected, and the accuracy of each citation was examined. A subset of 100 references was examined for quotational accuracy; ie, the accuracy ...

Among the approximately two thousand manuscripts of the Guenzburg collection at Moscow which have recently been filmed on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, about three dozen contain medical treatises. Of these, six display works of singular importance whose existence and contents have not yet been brought to ...

The author depicts the roots and the development of modern Croatian neurology. On the ground of cultural and civilizational predispositions it achieved an exceptional development during the last three decades in the period after the World War II. Although clinical neurology may be traced only after the foundation of the ...

Review of medical journals is not common in India. A quantitative review of the articles published in the Journal of Communicable Diseases from 1982 through 1991 was undertaken in the present study to give feedback to all concerned and stimulate them for initiating constructive criticism of medical journals published in ...

Professional journals are an important resource for continuing education. To explore the journal reading habits of registered dietitians (RDs), we mailed a questionnaire to all RDs in the state of Delaware. Responses were received from 71 RDs (47%) who identified 44 professional journals they rely on for current, practical information. ...

The article discusses important upcoming anniversaries of the historical development of the modern day Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) and its medical journal Military Medicine. It does this through chronicling the successive, antecedent military medical and dental associations and their journals which amalgamated to form AMSUS. ...

In the present study, I intended to determine the similarity between Rubin's (1970) Love Scale components and five of Lee's (1976) six lovestyles in a relatively homogenous sample of 301 16- and 17-year-old British females. Items describing loving behaviors toward a particular individual were formulated to measure these lovestyles together ...

BACKGROUND: More than 200 published studies have found some relationship between an individual's religion and health, yet reference to religious variables rarely appears in published empirical studies. METHODS: We performed a manual search of all articles reporting on human subjects in the 1989 issues of seven major medical journals to ...

The environmental health aspects of general medical practice have attracted the attention of many professional organizations in the past few years, including the American College of Physicians, the Institute of Medicine, and the American College of Occupational Medicine. To assess the degree of emphasis placed on environmental health issues in ...

BACKGROUND: The amount of biomedical information contained in scientific journals has grown to the point that complete coverage of this material is impossible. The number of articles and journals being published has been growing at an exponential rate since 1750. Thirty-four thousand references from 4000 journals are added each month ...

BACKGROUND: We performed a prospective controlled trial of a monthly journal club to determine if it would increase pediatric residents' knowledge of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. METHODS: Intervention residents received two didactic sessions before the journal club started. Eight monthly journal club sessions followed. Pediatric residents at another institution served ...

Immobilization of the jaw by wires has remained a common method of treatment over the past 130 years as determined through articles in the medical and dental journals as far back as 1887. A variety of devices and techniques have been invented as an alternative to the wires but have ...

The numbers of papers published between 1966 and 1990 which could be of relevance to a histopathologist were assessed. The search for papers was conducted under 18 medical subject headings using the CD-Plus Medline computerised database for the years 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986 and 1990. Between 1966 and 1990 16 ...

Although Indian doctors produce half the articles published from the third world, little has been written about Indian medical journals. We examined 75 of the 113 serious English-language journals published in India. Of the 22 included in the Cumulated Index Medicus only 8 were judged by Indian and foreign referees ...

A study was performed at the Garrison Medical Centre, Larkhill to assess the incidence of skin tattoos in a sample of soldiers. The soldiers were questioned with the aim of establishing where they had had their tattoos done, identifying any factors involved in becoming tattooed and assessing what proportion later ...

The Riel case in 1885 is one of the most striking cases in the history of forensic psychiatry. On the one hand, Riel was the hero of the underprivileged, French Canadian-Indian halfbreeds whose futile revolt in the Canadian Northwest captured the imaginations of French Canadians in Quebec, for whom he ...

Acitretin was introduced as a replacement for etretinate, the ethyl ester of acitretin. Acitretin is eliminated at a much faster rate than etretinate. Although both drugs are teratogens, the replacement was important especially as it allowed for a much shorter post-medication period in which pregnancy should be precluded. Recent findings ...

Academic productivity of faculty members in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) was evaluated retrospectively by using the numbers of scientific publications as a measurement instrument. This study was completed by examining ten medical peer-reviewed journals that regularly included original articles in the specialty area of PM&R during the years 1988 ...

To assess how the occupational medicine literature may affect general medical practice, representative journals were reviewed to address (1) how frequently the specialties cite each others' literature and (2) which topics are published most commonly by the respective journals. Five general medical journals were selected to contrast with six occupational ...

In the field of continuing postgraduate education, the reading of professional journals is an accepted method of keeping informed in regard to new developments and contemporary thought on different philosophies of treatment. Not only is such reading realized as being an efficient educational vehicle, but there is now a growing ...

Chemoprophylaxis of malaria on the Thai-Cambodian border is difficult due to the high level of drug resistance. Thirteen separate companies of Royal Thai Marine Militia were placed on 250 mg weekly mefloquine chemoprophylaxis from August 1989 to January 1990. A mean number of 722 soldiers received two or more doses ...

New examples of high-level ribosomal frameshift and readthrough events have been described over the past year and a half. These include -1 frameshifting at tandem codons and +1 frameshifting at neighboring slow codons. Several bizarre examples of ribosome jumping and multiple stop-codon readthrough continue to perplex investigators in this field.

This paper reviews changes in the use of statistics in medical journals during the 1980s. Aspects considered are research design, statistical analysis, the presentation of results, medical journal policy (including statistical refereeing), and the misuse of statistics. Despite some notable successes, the misuse of statistics in medical papers remains common.

The concept of a truly innovative "neurology" journal germinated in the mind of Clarence Luther Herrick and then flowered, in March of 1891, as the first issue of Volume 1 of The Journal of Comparative Neurology. The other parts appeared in June, October, and December of the same year. The ...

This report presents a case of sigmoid perforation five years after insertion of a Nova-T. This case illustrates that serious complications of third generation IUDs may occur even after several years of intraabdominal location. An IUD, which has perforated the uterus, cannot be left in the peritoneal cavity. Therefore, removal ...

A Chinese calendar savant was investigated on his exceptional proficiency in calendar calculation and his culture-specific talent of converting the Gregorian calendar to the Chinese calendar. Results did not support any one of the hypotheses of eidetic imagery, high-speed calculation, rote memorization, keying-off (anchoring) strategy, use of calendar regularities or ...

Twenty-two cows with right-sided displacement of the abomasum were treated with hyoscine-n-butyl bromide and dipyrone (Buscopan compositum; Boehringer Ingelheim). Within 24 hours 11 had recovered completely, three had improved, six had shown no improvement and two had been slaughtered. Within 48 hours 17 of the cows had recovered completely and ...

One gauge of creativity in medical genetics and dysmorphology is the eponym. Conditions named for people reflect their powers of observation and analysis. We examined the fields and ages of 210 eponymous physicians and scientists whose biographies were published by Peter and Greta Beighton [1986] in The Man Behind the ...

The authors ask whether full-text versions of medical journals are available for searching sooner than their biblographic counterparts. The journals in question are those found in the Comprehensive Core Medical Library (CCML) from BRS Information Technologies and in Mead Data Central's MEDIS Current Journal Files. All journals in these two ...

My first contact with Dr. Dharmendra was through correspondence. While working for Ph.D., I wrote to him that a section in his book "Notes on Leprosy" was ambiguous. Instead of ignoring the letter, he replied, agreeing to clarify it in the revised edition. I went to work at Carville at ...

This paper summarizes the major publications regarding imaging and intervention in pancreatic diseases from December 1989 through November 1990. This year, many of the most notable papers were published in the medical and surgical journals, reflecting that radiologic evaluation and intervention in patients with pancreatitis and pancreatic neoplasms are becoming ...

In the 12 years since it was first published, the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (the Vancouver style), developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, has been widely accepted by both authors and editors; more than 400 journals have stated that they will consider manuscripts ...

Antoine Lavoisier has been called the father of modern chemistry. From a medical point of view, he introduced the study of respiration and metabolism and so founded biochemistry. With his experiments, our knowledge of how the body works made immense strides forward. Two hundred years ago, he wrote his last ...

This study sought to identify the attitudes of family practice residents toward journal clubs and the effect that preparing a journal club session has on the resident's view of the medical literature. Residents from Valley Medical Center were prospectively assessed over a three-year period. Residents selected the improvement of critical ...

The longevity of 124 cusp-covered class 2 amalgam restorations and 644 restorations placed without cusp coverage was assessed over periods of up to 15 years. The survivals of both groups of restorations were approximately 72% after 15 years. The longevity of the cusp-covered restorations was not affected significantly by the ...

Comparable patient populations with 160 uncoated RM acetabular cups and 263 cemented Müller standard acetabular cups were submitted to survival-time analysis in a retrospective study with a mean follow-up of 5.3 years for the RM cup and 6.1 years for the Müller cup. After 7-8 years 12% of the RM ...

In most textbooks, it is stated that noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is an irreversible impairment of hearing. This is certainly true for the slowly, over time acquired NIHL. Working for years in a very noisy environment is causing a gradual killing of hair cells in the inner ear, with no ...

Gull and Lasègue are usually credited with the first description of anorexia nervosa. In general, however, the work of the French neuropsychiatrist has been underestimated, and English-speaking colleagues who refer to Lasègue's writing on 'hysterical anorexia' almost exclusively rely on the translation of his French paper, which in 1873 appeared ...

We report the results of a randomized prospective study comparing a standard bougie rubber balloon dilator [Brown-McHardy (BMH)] and a newer polyethylene dilator passed over a guide wire [Microvasive Rigiflex (MVR)]. Twenty achalasia patients (15M, 5F, mean age 45.4 yr) considered candidates for either dilator were randomized. Symptom assessment, body ...

Ten indexing and abstracting reference sources were examined for their coverage of 60 core veterinary medical journals. The costs of the indexes also were compared. Coverage of the 60 core veterinary journals ranged from 8 of 60 journals by Current Contents--Life Sciences to 57 of 60 by Index Veterinarius. Based ...

Statistical assessment of papers submitted to the British Medical Journal has increased to some 300 papers annually. The assessment produces a recommendation to the editor on each paper from a statistical viewpoint together with a completed checklist that indicates the quality of certain important features. This exploratory study was aimed ...

We conducted a prospective 9-month survey to assess the refereeing work load of British Medical Journal referees, and, in particular, to compare the work loads of pediatricians and psychiatrists. Referees completed a record form for each manuscript reviewed and a questionnaire on demographic characteristics and attitudes toward refereeing. Two hundred ...

This study determined if the process of editorial peer review is the same for all medical journals. Two categories of indexed US medical journals were examined: group 1 consisted mainly of well-known, clinically oriented journals, while group 2 was composed primarily of interdisciplinary or specialized journals. Data were collected through ...

There is very little information available about the prevalence of Coxiella burnetii in Africa. We obtained blood from 75 Nigerians hospitalized in Sokoto for a variety of acute medical conditions. Their age range was 7 months to 50 years; there were 39 males and 36 females. Antibody titers were determined ...

Journal clubs have been used as part of a continuing medical education programme for over 100 years. The major role of a journal club is to introduce concepts of critical thinking and evaluation of research literature. This study describes how the understanding of papers presented in a surgical journal club ...