Precise measurements of well-being would be of profound societal importance.Yet, the sceptical worry that we cannot use social science instruments and tests to measure well-being is Vitamin E widely discussed by philosophers and scientists.A recent and interesting philosophical argument has pointed to the psychometric procedures of construct valida
Abstract Background Recreational use of prescription drugs is widespread.We describe acute poisonings related to the recreational use of prescription drugs.Methods Retrospective observational study.We retrospectively registered all patients presenting from October 2013 through March 2015 at a primary care emergency outpatient clinic in Oslo, Norway
At least, two important factors, discrimination and difficulty, should be considered in determing whether a problem should be in a packet of problems produced for students entrance examination at a university.The higher the discrimination degree of a problem, the better the problem is used to make a selection of participants based on their intellec
Inappropriate use of indwelling urinary catheters (IUCs) and their related complications is one of the most important problems in hospital wards.The aim of this study was to evaluate inappropriate Godzilla use of IUCs and their complications among patients in Tehran, Iran.Two hundred and six consecutive patients hospitalized in the intensive care u
Abstract Objective To elicit societal and patient utilities associated with diabetic symptomatic non-severe hypoglycaemia for three health states: Floor Mats 1) rare (quarterly), 2) intermittent (monthly), 3) and frequent (weekly) hypoglycaemia episodes.Methods Using validated health states, time trade-off utilities were elicited from 51 Canadian r