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Quality indicators for mental healthcare in the Danube region: results from a pilot feasibility study
Quality indicators are vital for monitoring the transformation of institution-based mental health services towards the provision of person-centered mental healthcare. While several mental healthcare quality in...
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Open AccessPotential strategies for sustainably financing mental health care in Uganda
In spite of the pronounced adverse economic consequences of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders on households in most low- and middle-income countries, service coverage and financial protection f...
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Decorin is a secreted protein associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes
To characterize the expression of the small leucine-rich glycoprotein decorin in adipose tissue.
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Economic implications of shared care arrangements
Providing care for people with serious and enduring mental health problems has been prioritised in a number of countries. It has been recognised that good liaison between primary and secondary care services is...
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Does a hostel's managing agency determine the access to psychiatric services of its residents?
This study examines the effect of managing agency (local authority, private or voluntary) on the use of other health and social care services by residents in mental health hostels and group homes with differe...
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QALYs and mental health care
Quality-adjusted life year measures (QALYs) have been fervently debated by researchers and decision makers concerned with resource allocation in the health care sector. They have been heralded as important aid...
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Verzögerte Behandlung beim lokal begrenzten Prostatakarzinom
Es gilt als allgemeines Prinzip der Onkologie, daß bei einem organbegrenzten Tumor nur die radikale Ausrottung zu einer „Heilung“führen kann. Die Entfernung der regionalen Lymphknoten ist für eine genauere Sta...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Orifice Plates: Two-Phase Applications
The use of sharp-edged orifice plates to measure the mass dryness fraction in two-phase flow in pipes is discussed. In particular the influence of the following aspects are examined:
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Indicators of public attitudes toward science and technology
The use of attitude surveys inScience Indicators — 1976 is reviewed and found sufficiently flawed to limit the utility of survey results. The primary confusion throughout is the treatment of science and technolog...
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The relationship of insulin response to a glucose stimulus over a wide range of glucose tolerance
Oral glucose (75 g) tolerance tests were performed on 189 urbanized Micronesians with an age range of 15 to 70 years. The subjects were divided into 6 groups on the basis of the 2 h plasma glucose and the patt...
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Long Term Persistence of Parathion in Soil
PARATHION, an early organophosphorus insecticide introduced commercially in 1947, is, like most other compounds in this group, considered to be relatively non-persistent on plants and in soil. West1 reported its ...
