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J Med Imaging Radiat Sci
June 2017
Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Health care involves the participation of patients, family, and a diverse team of often highly specialized health care professionals. Involvement of all these team members in a cooperative and coordinated way is essential to providing exceptional care. This article introduces key concepts relating to interprofessional collaborative teamwork.
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July 2016
4 Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie, Freie Universität Berlin.
Threats and announcements of homicidal violence at schools may have massive consequences like evacuations, police searches, criminal investigations, or loss of the sense of security by students, teachers, and parents. However, there is a lack of systematic studies about that phenomenon. The present article would like to contribute to closing the research gap.
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March 2016
Clinic of Abdominal, Thoracic and Pediatric Surgery, Klinikum Mittelbaden/Balg, Baden-Baden.
Background: Inguinal hernia repair is the most common general surgical procedure in industrialized countries, with a frequency of about 200 operations per 100 000 persons per year. Suture- and mesh-based techniques can be used, and the procedure can be either open or minimally invasive.
Methods: This review is based on a selective search of the literature, with interpretation of the published findings according to the principles of evidence-based medicine.
Z Rheumatol
October 2015
Abteilung Rheumatologie, Osteologie, Physikalische Medizin, Kerckhoff-Klinik, Benekestr. 2-8, 61231, Bad Nauheim, Deutschland.
Inflammatory and non-inflammatory rheumatic as well as degenerative disorders have a tendency to progress resulting in morphological and functional deficits and thus cause impairment of physical health. To inhibit this debilitating development, physiotherapeutic and exercise strategies are indispensable and in exceptional cases can be necessary for the whole lifetime. This article presents a current overview of the aims of treatment, methods and techniques, modes of action, indications and contraindications and application modalities, as well as the current underlying scientific evidence.
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March 2014
Universitäts-Augenklinik, Killianstr. 5, 79106, Freiburg, Deutschland,
Prismatic glasses are used to deflect rays of light. In ophthalmology, prisms are mainly used to correct double vision caused by strabismus which is acquired after early childhood. In congenital or infantile strabismus, the image of the deviated eye is usually suppressed so that double vision does not occur and prismatic glasses are not indicated.
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