In 1979 the College of Health Service Administrators arranged for a survey to be undertaken to ascertain the composition of Boards of Management of hospitals. In 1984 it was decided to undertake another survey in order to investigate if there had been any changes to the composition of the Boards ...

Integration of various systems of medicine is in the best interest of all concerned. It enables the physician to provide the best available therapeutic care to the patient without undue delay, making way for a better prognosis. It also makes available to him a greater variety of treatment measures hitherto ...

Faecal samples and questionnaires from 115 and 130 farms respectively were used to survey the internal parasite status of the national deer herd and examine current drenching practices. The survey included farms with red deer and wapiti-red deer crosses (Cervus elaphus), and fallow deer (Dama dama). Gastrointestinal nematode eggs were ...

Following the unexpected death from acute anaphylaxis of a patient receiving house dust mite desensitization, general practitioners throughout Hampshire were asked about their experience of desensitization and its side effects, by means of a questionnaire. From a total of 695 doctors, 452 (65 per cent) returned valid questionnaires. Sixty-three doctors ...

A questionnaire survey was conducted of 54 board-eligible or board-certified plastic surgeons practicing outside urban or suburban areas. Marketplace forces were determined to have been important in the choice of nonmetropolitan practice locations. The practitioners surveyed tended to participate in a broad spectrum of plastic surgical practice. On the whole, ...

More so than most other departments, the personnel department shares responsibility for its activities--notably with executives and line managers. But the division of responsibility is far from clear-cut, and where to draw the line is subject to controversy, as seen in this discussion of survey results on the viewpoints of ...

A counsellor was included within the professional staff of a practice of 11,000 patients cared for by five partners. A review of her work over a 12-month period is described. Eighty-seven patients were counselled in 197 sessions. Thirty-five per cent of first appointments and 22 per cent of subsequent appointments ...

Traditional Chinese Medicine, unlike in many countries, with its well defined concepts and content, is developed due to the progressive policies of the government. The past 30 years work on scientific lines complemented by the successful and significant efforts to integrate Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western medicine has proved the ...

This paper reports the results of a national survey of perceptions of practice and career satisfaction among the first cohorts of residency-trained family physicians. The findings indicate that a large majority of the respondents (n = 876), most of whom had been in practice for only three years or less ...

Over 600 Howard University medical alumni of seven representative classes graduating from 1955 to 1975 were surveyed by questionnaire in 1975 and 1976. Replies of the 252 black respondents confirm that these graduates are providing substantial care to blacks, the economically disadvantaged, and residents of the inner city. Survey findings ...

A survey of 123 patients with congenital cataracts treated at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town between 1956 and 1976. The various factors influencing the functional prognosis were examined and correlated with the final visual outcome. Practicalities, both pre- and postoperative, involved in the management of ...

A postal survey of British endoscopists was carried out to discover current practice in the intubation of gastro-oesophageal malignancies. Forty-six replies were analysed, comprising about 820 intubations. There were 75 perforations (approximately 9%) and the rate was about the same for operators with experience of 20 or more intubations. Tube ...

Patient surveys can be useful methods of obtaining information for the purposes of improving health services, practice management, or research in family medicine. The telephone interview is an effective and economical method of undertaking such a survey. The advantages and disadvantages of the telephone survey method are briefly illustrated by ...

Members of the Canadian Otolaryngological Society were surveyed by way of a questionnaire regarding their treatment of the middle ear effusion. Sixty-seven per cent of the members polled replied. The majority of respondents utilized similar conservative measures, but for varied time periods, before proceeding to surgical management. Surgery generally involved ...

All the herds surveyed were relatively unproductive as regards fertility, growth rates, offtake and milk production with the exception of one herd which received a significant amount of dry season supplementation. It is suggested that the provision of supplementary feeds would be a simple and relatively inexpensive method of improving ...

The answers to a questionnaire concerning attitudes of members of the British Society of Gastroenterology to the management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding are analysed. In the majority of cases patients were admitted to general wards under the care of physicians. Use of intensive therapy units and venous pressure monitoring ...

Because of emerging economic realities of the latter half of this century, the practice of preventive medicine, as opposed to curative medicine, is becoming essential in developed and developing countries. This holds true in veterinary medicine as well as in human medicine, and as we become increasingly aware of this ...

A survey of helminth parasites in stray dogs was carried out in the Zaria area. Out of 180 dogs examined 65.6 per cent (118/180) were found positive for Ancylostoma caninum, while Toxocara canis and Trichuris vulpis were detected in 41.1 per cent (74/180) and 13.9 per cent (25/180) respectively. Other ...

A survey of all active practitioners in Rhode Island was conducted to determine which demographic or practice variables or knowledge or attitude variables, or both, might be associated with a desire to use EDDAs. A total of 355 (74.6%) dentists responded to the questionnaire. Of these, 33.4% indicated a desire ...

Eighty-three patients who had been investigated by cholecystogram, barium meal and fibreoptic endoscopy more than two years previously were interviewed to enquire into their reactions to the investigations carried out, their present symptoms, and their present smoking and alcohol consumption. Comparisons were made with previously recorded observations. Those who still ...

Throughout 1974 records were kept of all patients seen by the medical staff at Royal Air Force Bruggen, an RAF Station in Germany. Full details of patients and diagnoses were recorded and an analysis was made of the patterns of consultation and morbidity. The method of storing and analysis the ...

Rheumatological complaints accounted for 10.6 per cent of new presentations in this general-practice survey. Spinal problems formed almost half of this total and led to a greater degree of disability than other locomotor system disorders. Active participation in the treatment of pain by the practitioner's use of manipulation and injection ...

The side-effects encountered by 1,090 patients taking the oral contraceptive pill were reviewed. The main side-effects were migraine, headaches, weight gain, depression, and irregular bleeding. Reasons for changing the Pill are discussed, and recommendations are suggested for a way of monitoring patients taking the Pill. Analysis of the results show ...

Physicians practicing allegy in the State of Wisconsin were surveyed regarding their fees charged and norms of practice relating to the diagnosis and management of patients with allergic diseases. Over 50% of the physicians surveyed responded and the results were compiled and analyzed. The data obtained provide an over-view of ...

Samples of sewage, collected from 43 nurseries and 22 main town sewers in Czechoslovakia, showed the presence of polioviruses 6-7 months after vaccination with live oral poliovaccines. The presence of other enteroviruses in sewage followed their known prevalence in the community during the summer and autumn.

A study of a sample of records from eight general practices showed that 10% of patients' ages were not recorded, that 99% of males had no indication of their marital state, and 60% did not have an occupation recorded. In recording of disease episodes a diagnosis was recorded in a ...

In a practice in an industrial area a cervical cytology service was offered to women, and in the years 1967-70 280 cervical smears were carried out. In 1971 all women born between 1 January 1920 and 31 December 1935 who had not had a cervical smear taken in the preceding ...

A postal survey of 776 principals representative of general practice in Britain is described. Doctors working in health centres are compared both with colleagues in other group practices and with doctors who have no group practice allowance. Young doctors are mainly in group practice, especially health centres; the proportion of ...

In an attempt to find out if the physician perceives the same strengths and weaknesses in today's practice of family medicine as does the consumer, the Lay Advisory Committee of the College's B.C. Chapter initiated a survey of physicians' and consumers' attitudes. This article, the first in a series, presents ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common neurological disease, estimated to affect 100,000 people in the UK. Bowel symptoms are reported to be common in MS, with constipation affecting 29-43% and faecal incontinence affecting just over 50%. Both have an impact on quality of life. Very little is known about how ...

AIM: To determine the amount of violence experienced by a sample of A&E staff during a three-month period, and to explore the effect of aggression management training and exposure to violence on their self-efficacy in dealing with aggressive patients. METHOD: A small-scale questionnaire survey was undertaken of 130 staff. RESULTS: ...

The authors describe a small scale study conducted to examine the practice of pre-operative shaving in women undergoing gynaecological surgery. The results show that the practice of shaving was not uniform among the wards surveyed and that there were differences in the method used, area shaved and times at which ...