A person-centered integrated care quality framework, based on a qualitative study of patients' evaluation of care in light of chronic care ideals.

Background: Person-Centered Integrated Care (PC-IC) is believed to improve outcomes and experience for persons with multiple long-term and complex conditions. No broad consensus exists regarding how to capture the patient-experienced quality of PC-IC. Most PC-IC evaluation tools focus on care events or care in general.

[Leakage of cerebrospinal fluid. Diagnosis and treatment].

Leakage of cerebrospinal fluid may occur after fracture of the skull base or after surgery on the skull base, nose, or paranasal sinuses. Further causes of cerebrospinal fluid leakage are tumours and malformations. It may also occur spontaneously.

[Laryngomalacia--endoscopic microsurgical treatment].

Laryngomalacia is caused by inspiratory collapse of the supraglottic structures in babies. This predominant cause of stridor in the first years of life has a graded occurrence from an insignificant sound phenomenon to insufficient alveolar ventilation with possible serious complications and development of dystrophy. The laryngomalacia must be sub-classified by direct laryngoscopy with a flexible endoscope under spontaneous respiration.

Analog and digital filtering of ABR: ipsi- and contralateral derivations.

Objective: In audioneurological evaluations, peak latency is an important parameter regarding the determination of possible wave delays. Digital filtering entails suppression of less informative low-frequency components without phase distortion, thus accentuating the peak readings. Ipsi- and contralateral recordings have improved the reliability as regards the identification of ABR waves.

Ischaemia-reperfusion and toxic oxygen metabolites do not induce release of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic factor from isolated rat hearts.

Secretion of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic factors (ANF) after injury by ischaemia-reperfusion and toxic oxygen metabolites (TOM) was investigated in the following groups of Langendorff-perfused rat hearts: 1.1., control perfusion; 1.