Abstract Prehospital stroke care is the first link in the stroke chain of survival and includes symptom recognition, engagement of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system, timely and effective dispatcher…
Abstract Almost all efficacious stroke treatments confer moderate-to-large benefits, but not staggeringly huge benefits. However, moderate treatment effects can be clinically very worthwhile for the patient. To detect moderate-large treatment…
Abstract In the year 2010, an estimated 16.9 million strokes occurred worldwide at an incidence rate of 258 per 100,000 persons per year. Approximately 70% of these strokes occurred in…
Abstract Expert opinion evidence may be rebutted by showing the incorrectness or inadequacy of the factual assumptions on which the opinion is based, the reasoning by which he progresses from…
Abstract For expert evidence to be tested, a thorough understanding of the evidence is critical. Experts are privileged in that they are able to give evidence, on more than what…
Abstract The role of the coroner has evolved since the office was formally established in 1194, from being a form of medieval tax gatherer to an independent judicial office holder…
Abstract Psychiatrists called upon to provide expert reports to regulatory bodies will in most cases be required to assist the regulator where there are concerns as to the practitioner’s fitness…
Abstract Here, along with consideration of expert psychiatric evidence in cases of disputes between employers and employees and in pension cases, we deal with its relevance to disability discrimination in…
Abstract The majority of requests for reports in immigration and asylum cases arise in the asylum context. However, issues of mental health will frequently come up in human rights applications…
Abstract There is … no canon of construction which presumes that Parliament intended that people should, against their will, be subjected to treatment which others, however professionally competent, perceive, however…
