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BACKGROUND: Internet-based developmental screening is being implemented in pediatric practices across the United States. Little is known about the application of this technology in poor urban populations. OBJECTIVE: We describe here the results of focus groups, surveys, and in-depth interviews during home visits with…

BACKGROUND: Latinos experience substantial barriers to primary care. Limited English language proficiency may be a mechanism for these deficiencies, even for Latinos with health coverage. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between English language proficiency and the experience of primary care reported by insure…

BACKGROUND: A significant proportion of US Latinos with diabetes have limited English proficiency (LEP). Whether language barriers in health care contribute to poor glycemic control is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between limited English proficiency (LEP) and glycemic control and whether this associat…

Some specialties require publishing a paper as a prerequisite for becoming a Japanese Medical Specialty Board Specialist. Taking obstetrics and gynecology as an example, we wish to describe some concerns about this. Time limitations oblige residents to publish papers in non-PubMed journals with smaller circulations. On…

Scanning keyboards can be essential tools for individuals with reduced motor function. However, most research addresses layout optimization. Learning new layouts is time-consuming. This study explores the familiar QWERTY layout with alternative scanning paths intended for English text. The results show that carefully d…

Rehabilitation is easy to do badly and difficult to do well. Many people are involved in the process, and must act as a team to support the patient with good communication and teamwork. The whole process can be satisfying to all concerned when dealing with motivated and enthusiastic patients. Measuring the process is a…

Biomedical language, also known as biomedical English, is sufficiently different from general English to warrant treatment as a distinct language. Biomedical language has its own conventions of grammar, phraseology and discourse, as well as a lexicon which is complex and esoteric. Furthermore, each sub-discipline, such…

Recent substantive reforms to the English National Health Service expanded patient choice and encouraged hospitals to compete within a market with fixed prices. This study investigates whether these reforms led to improvements in hospital quality. We use a difference-in-difference-style estimator to test whether hospit…

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Medical advertisements in English newspapers between 1690 and 1750 were examined from the aspect of gender. Subjects considered were who read the advertisements, who bought the products advertised, what conditions and cures were described, what references there were to women and where and how the products were sold. Th…

To assess whether writer's block occurs in languages other than English, a Chinese language translation of Rose's Writer's Block questionnaire was administered to 98 university students in Taiwan. Analysis suggests that writer's block occurs for Chinese students, and, as in English, it is related to premature editing a…

The 34-item Social Support List developed in The Netherlands combines measures of support satisfaction and support interactions in six subscales plus a total score. The present study was designed to assess the applicability of the list in a different cultural context. Data from 421 American undergraduates were consiste…

The experience gained on teaching practice placement forms an important and integral part of nurse teacher preparation courses. The importance of assessing student teacher performance in such practice settings is readily acknowledged (English National Board (ENB) 1988) and successful student teacher performance during…

During 1972, 333 fluff samples were tested from 13 Queensland hatcheries and assessed according to the English standards for total count, coliforms and fungi. They were also assessed as being "standard" or "substandard", using a combination of the criteria of the English system. All hatcheries had at least 2 substandar…

INTRODUCTION: Consistent urologic oncology follow-up after radical cystectomy (RC) improves survival. However, there is scarce literature describing postoperative communication. We aimed to identify differences in postoperative communication patterns and healthcare utilization among English-speaking patients (ESPs) and…

Gray matter has been shown to be greater in early bilingual adults relative to monolingual adults in regions associated with language (Mechelli et al., 2004), and executive control (EC; Olulade et al., 2016). It is not known, however, if language experience-dependent differences in gray matter volume (GMV) exist in chi…