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Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade. By William Benemann. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press 2012. Pp. 384. $29.95.) Sir William [...]

AT THE BEGINNING of the twentieth century, Djursholm was Stockholm's most prosperous suburb while Birkastaden on the city's northwestern outskirts was one of its poorest quarters. Both had come into [...]

THE NORDIC LANDS were long almost terra incognita in the European consciousness, where they were vaguely pictured as a cold, Hyperborean wilderness. Occasional diplomats, soldiers, and merchants might have reason [...]

THE CENTENNIAL in 2005 of the dissolution of the Norwegian-Swedish union in 1905 received great attention with conferences, exhibitions, and ceremonial occasions in both Norway and Sweden, largely orchestrated by [...]

IN REFLECTING ON THE PAST we are often struck by the disparity between the realities of a time and place, on the one hand, and the ideal picture of their [...]

Several prominent immigration scholars participated in the 1984 conference on 'Scandinavians and other Immigrants in Urban America' held at St. Olaf College. At the conference, the University of Chicago's Kathleen Neils Conzen lambasted Scandinavian-American scholars for restricting themselves to the study of their ethnic roots, instead of placing their experiences within a more general context. Scandinavian-American scholars began integrating their studies with the whole field of immigration studies in a positive reaction to the criticism., AT THIS TIME of writing a decade has passed since the conference on 'Scandinavians and Other Immigrants in Urban America,' held in 1984 at Saint Olaf College. This symposium was [...]

FORGING A FUR EMPIRE: EXPEDITIONS IN THE SNAKE RIVER COUNTRY, 1809-1824 by John Phillip Reid The Arthur H. Clark Company, Norman, Oklahoma, 2011. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. 240 pages. $29.95 [...]

FUR, FORTUNE, AND EMPIRE: THE EPIC HISTORY OF THE FUR TRADE IN AMERICA By Eric Jay Dolin (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2010, 420 pp., $29.95 cloth) SO [...]

Introduction The aim of this service evaluation project was to assess the quality of clinical details provided in radiological requests. Methods A retrospective review of adult inpatient and emergency department radiological requests over a seven-day period was performed, using the local Clinical Radiological Information System (CRIS). Requests for plain film, CT, MRI and Ultrasound were assessed for the inclusion of a clinical question, lateralisation/localisation of signs or symptoms if required, and relevant past medical/surgical history if available. Results 1548 imaging requests were analysed. 76% asked a specific clinical question. 74% of requests requiring localisation provided this. Of those cases with relevant past medical or surgical history available, 49% mentioned this. Emergency department (ED) requests provided localisation when required in 81% of cases compared to 62% of in-patients (p < 0.05). However, in-patient requests contained relevant past history in 53% of cases compared to 40% for ED requests (p = 0.00096). Compared to plain film requests, those for CT, MRI and Ultrasound studies were more complete in respect to inclusion of a clinical question (88% versus 72%, p < 0.05), localisation if required (83% versus 71%, p = 0.0007) and pertinent clinical history (67% versus 42%, p < 0.05). Requests from the weekend more often included a clinical question (83% vs 75%, p = 0.00054) and localisation if needed (84% vs 71%, p = 0.00188) compared with weekday requests. Conclusion This large-scale service evaluation project shows that the quality of clinical details in requests for radiological investigations requires improvement, particularly in regard to inclusion of relevant past medical and surgical history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]