What are the important components of the clinical assessment of hand problems in older adults in primary care? Results of a Delphi study

Abstract Background To identify clinical questions and assessments regarded by health care practitioners as important when assessing undifferentiated hand pain or problems in adults aged 50 years and over presenting to primary care.Methods A purposively selected panel of 26 UK-based Health Care Practitioners comprising occupational therapists, phys

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The Road Taken: the Institutionalization of Economic Sanctions as an Instrument at Service of International Collective Security

This paper addresses the institutionalization of multilateral economic sanctions from a historical perspective, aiming at to explain when, why and how economic sanctions became an instrument of deterrence and coercion in the toolbox of collective security.First, it is shown that a new concern emerged in the Hague Conferences, in which states began

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Embodied Drawing: A Case Study in Narrative Design

This paper discusses drawing Pizza Oven and interior dwelling as enstasic methodological practices that reach potentials beyond those available to thinking prescribed by the written word.In discussing the means by which the short film Munted (Ings 2011) was drawn pedal left into being, it suggests that drawn approaches to the design of filmic narra

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