Background Functional capacity is an important component of risk assessment for major
surgery. Doctors' clinical subjective assessment of patients' functional capacity has uncertain …

Approximately 20 g/day of concentrated dietary fibre from carrot, cabbage, apple, bran, and
guar gum was added to the controlled basal diet of nineteen healthy volunteers. Fæcal …

Background Adults with a learning disability frequently have unmet health needs. The cause
for this is complex and may be related to difficulties in accessing usual primary care services…

Some instruments have been developed to evaluate ‘decision effectiveness’ such as the ‘satisfaction
with decision (SWD)’ and ‘decision conflict (DCS)’ scales and are validated for the …

Objective To describe the effects of a voluntary intervention using reflective learning techniques
on students' learning. Design An interventional study with reflective learning techniques …

Background Important barriers to the wider implementation of shared decision making
remain. The experiences of professionals who are skilled in this approach may identify how to …

No satisfactory hypothesis has been put forward to explain the association internationally of
high meat protein intakes with the high incidence of large bowel cancer. Since current …

Background An earlier study ( Baxter et al. 2006 ) found that a structured health check
conducted in primary care identified clinically significant previously unrecognized morbidity …

Background Portfolio learning enables students to collect evidence of their learning.
Component tasks making up a portfolio can be devised that relate directly to intended learning …

PURPOSE Poor nutrition is an increasing problem for economically deprived families, and
mothers play a key role in establishing children’s diets. We explored mothers’ understanding …