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Abstracts: Pharmacologic therapy for pregnancy-induced hypertension. Pharmacologic intervention in the management of preterm labor: an update
Abstracts: Pharmacology. Pharmacology Department. Managing pain after coronary artery bypass surgery
Abstracts: Pharmanetics/Aventis: agreement to develop theranostic test for enoxaparin. Infectious disease: Virco: HIV resistance test
Abstracts: Pharm.D. seen as new entry-level pharmacy degree. TB crisis: experts call for tighter safety measures. A hospital's teamwork and CQI advance shared vision, interdependence among top managers
Abstracts: Phase I study of 2'-3'-dideoxyinosine administered orally twice daily to patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex and hematologic intolerance to zidovudine
Abstracts: Phase I study of low-dose zidovudine and acyclovir in asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus seropositive individuals
Abstracts: Phobic disorder, psychotherapy, and risk-taking: an economic perspective. Reflections on the socio-economic correlates of health
Abstracts: PhRMA launches its '98 ad campaign. Seeking the voice of the practitioner. ACCME restores ad ban on journal CME articles
Abstracts: Physician-based surveillance of occupational disease: experience with a broader range of diagnoses and physicians
Abstracts: Physician fees and procedure intensity: the case of cesarean delivery. Physician demand for leisure: implications for cesarean section rates
Abstracts: Physician groups plan on being major factor in reform debate. Using CQI methods to lower postsurgical wound infection rate
Abstracts: Physician Incentive Compensation in Group Practice: A Review with Suggestions for Improvement. Application of continuous quality improvement techniques to the treatment of patients with hypertension
Abstracts: Physician involvement in management and governance: the moderating effects of staff structure and composition
Abstracts: Physician opportunity costs in physician practice cost functions. A problem with consumer surplus measures of the cost of practice variations
Abstracts: Physician payment reform in Medicare. A user's view of health care data management. Medical treatment effectiveness research
Abstracts: Physician practice management companies. Maintaining the new practice networks. Medical staff leadership: a national panel survey
Abstracts: Physicians and the ADA. Patchwork access: primary care in EDs on the rise. Toppling the power of the pyramid: team-based restructuring for TQM, patient-centered care
Abstracts: Physicians as workers, whether we like it or not. Physician as worker: an organizational behavior perspective
Abstracts: Physician service to the underserved: implications for affirmative action in medical education. Chicago's hope
Abstracts: Physicians practicing in hospitals: implications for a medical staff policy. Growth in Medicare's hospital outpatient care: implications for prospective payment
Abstracts: Physicians: the rate of change accelerates. Family violence: breaking the cycle. The billing office and the CEO
Abstracts: Physiologic changes in heart failure - "What's new". Factors contributing to rehospitalization of elderly patients with heart failure
Abstracts: Pittsburgh: hospitals and physicians design their moves around the path of a dominant insurer. Research Triangle, NC: new competition hits the old 'Tobacco Road.'(MarketProfile)
Abstracts: Planning and Organizing the Medical Health Record Department. The Medical Record Manager as a Supervisor
Abstracts: Playing by the rules. Camp laparoscopy. Minding the mind
Abstracts: Playing by the rules. Capturing healers on canvas. Report card daze
Abstracts: Plenty of bark, but no bite. Another voice breaks the silence. Loan program on borrowed time?
Abstracts: Pneumococcal bacteremia during ciprofloxacin therapy for pneumococcal pneumonia. Brief report: combination effects of ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, and metronidazole intravenously in volunteers
Abstracts: Poised for growth, subacute care gains a clearer identity. A dose of pharmaco-economics: can health networks learn from the drug policies of managed care plans?
Abstracts: Poised for growth, subacute care gains a clearer identity. Constructive change: strong strategic plans can help hospitals keep facility plans in line
Abstracts: Positioning hospitals: a model for regional hospitals. Don't forget the letterhead. Women's health centers and specialized services: segmentation strategies can be effective in targeting some female health care consumers
Abstracts: Possible association of cutaneous telangiectasia with cardiac myxoma. Varicella zoster virus transverse myelitis without cutaneous rash
Abstracts: Possible progress and unresolved conflicts resulting from guidelines on good epidemiologic practices. Skin and eye diseases among arc welders and those exposed to welding operations
Abstracts: Potential contribution of dietary sources to urinary cadmium and beta2-microglobulin excretion of occupationally exposed workers
Abstracts: Potential methods to reduce risk selection and its effects. The failed conversion of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield to for-profit status: part 2, lessons learned
Abstracts: Power notebook. Caveat emptor. The confidence gap
Abstracts: PPS rule proposes changes in reclassification, outlier policies. New money sought for PPS equity
Abstracts: Practice guidelines: best hope for quality improvement in the 1990s. The bridge from quality assurance to quality improvement
Abstracts: Precision and reproducibility of quantitative coronary angiography with applications to controlled clinical trials
Abstracts: Predicting appointment breaking. Decreasing anxiety: to satisfy outpatients, hospitals need to identify stress points in their procedures
Abstracts: Predicting hospital profitability in short-term general community hospitals. Vertical integration strategies: revenue effects in hospital and Medicare markets
Abstracts: Predicting progression to AIDS: combined usefulness of CD4 lymphocyte counts and p24 antigenemia. Predicting the progression to AIDS
Abstracts: Predicting the degree of rurality of physician assistant practice location. Physician practice acquisitions: valuation issues and concerns
Abstracts: Predicting the unpredictable. Street scenes. The running of the bulls; in which the raging stock market transforms health care
Abstracts: Prepping for patients. Service with a smile - or else. Know your neighbor's business
Abstracts: Prescription for accuracy. Ghost in the machine. Meet John Doe; when patients show up ahead of their paperwork, aggravation and unpaid bills usually follow
Abstracts: Presumptive cerebral Nocardia asteroides infection in AIDS: treatment with ceftriaxone and minocycline. Muscle weakness, seizures, coma, and death in a 33-year-old man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
Abstracts: Preterm birth in the United States: current issues and future perspectives. Risk management and electronic fetal monitoring: decreasing risk of adverse outcomes and liability exposure
Abstracts: Prevalence and clinical characteristics of a high cardiac output state in patients with multiple myeloma. Complement abnormalities in multiple myeloma
Abstracts: Prevention is the best medicine. Ka-boom! Tenet's computer compact
Abstracts: Prevention: provide ergo training for Spanish-speaking employees in at-risk industries. Involve employees when crafting a workplace safety program
Abstracts: Price, tobacco control policies and smoking among young adults. The impact of tobacco control program expenditures on aggregate cigarette sales: 1981 - 2000
Abstracts: Pricing medical services in the managed care environment. Promoting and measuring productivity in the HMO. Changes in health care financing: effects on the delivery of health care services in the 1990s
Abstracts: Prilosec has efficacy, but not indication for NSAID-induced ulcers. DuPont buys out Merck's interest in joint venture
Abstracts: Primary impressions: barriers to primary care may run deeper than you think. Caring for Ms. Little Saigon
Abstracts: Priority setting in health care: an axiomatic bargaining approach. A positive analysis of financial incentives for cadaveric organ donation
Abstracts: Private employers don't need formal risk adjustment. Health plans and selection: formal risk adjustment vs. market design and contracts
Abstracts: Private medical insurance and saving: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. Innovation and risk selection in deregulated social health insurance
Abstracts: Private Payment for Long-Term Care: The Untapped Mechanism. Nursing grand rounds. Controlling Expansion of the Nursing Home Industry: Effects of Prospective Payment Systems on Capital Formation
Abstracts: Private purchasing tools to harness individual tax credits for consumers. The prevalence of formal risk adjustment in health plan purchasing
Abstracts: Productivity Management: A Model for Participative Management in Health Care Organizations. Public-private partnership organizations in health care: cooperative strategies and models
Abstracts: Progress in Three Areas In Breat Cancer Therapy. Respiratory distress syndrome-life threatening in both adults and infants
Abstracts: Progressive systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma presenting as pulmonary interstitial fibrosis. Progressive systemic sclerosis complicated by severe hypertension: reversal after silicone implant removal
Abstracts: Progressive warfarin anticoagulation in protein C deficiency: a therapeutic strategy. Chronic acetaminophen ingestion associated with (1;7)(pll;pll) translocation and immune deficiency syndrome
Abstracts: Project management: break through or bust. Tools from the implementation workbench: a project manager's survival kit
Abstracts: Prolonged ambulatory esophageal pH monitoring in the evaluation of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Coronary flow reserve, esophageal motility, and chest pain in patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries
Abstracts: Prolonged ambulatory esophageal pH monitoring in the evaluation of gastroesophageal reflux disease. part 2 Chronic xerostomia increases esophageal acid exposure and is associated with esophageal injury
Abstracts: Prolonged exposure to a visual pattern may promote behavioral organization in preterm infants. Tackle symptoms of vibration exposure to ward off RSIs
Abstracts: Prominence of withdrawal symptoms in polydrug-exposed infants. Psychopharmacology in pregnancy
Abstracts: Promoting wellness by delaying age of cardiovascular disease onset: development of a model. Mind-body fitness: encouraging prospects for primary and secondary prevention
Abstracts: Promoting wellness in individuals with coronary heart disease. Health promotion across the continuum: challenges for the future of cardiovascular nursing
Abstracts: Proper monitor placement eliminates awkward postures, neck pain. Ergo training for vehicle operators can prevent back injuries
Abstracts: Prospective study of the standard meal provocative test in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. Cost-effectiveness of prospective and continuous parenteral antibiotic control: experience at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center from 1987 to 1989
Abstracts: PROs, providers and physicians to collaborate on cardiac outcomes. AAFP: reform hinges on more family MDs
Abstracts: Prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Cardiobacterium hominis occurring after upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
Abstracts: Protect employees from ergo injuries during spring cleaning, maintenance. Low-cost solutions prevent foot disorders
Abstracts: Protecting employees from medical waste: the human resources perspective. A company's commitment to waste reduction, recycling, and refuse
Abstracts: Protocols for the prevention of intravascular device-related infections. Don the barriers
Abstracts: Providence just in time. "We're not Columbia." (Tenet Healthcare Corp. distinguishes itself from Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.)(includes related articles)
Abstracts: Provider involvement in managed care underwriting. The effects of preferred provider organizations on health care use and costs
Abstracts: Providers skeptical of LTC reform prospects. Nursing, an ongoing transformation: AONE president. A new vision of hospital leadership
Abstracts: Providing health insurance to the short-term unemployed. Predicting response to regulatory change in the small group health insurance market: the case of association health plans and HealthMarts
Abstracts: Proving our value: why we documented it. Remapping health care deliver: multihospital system execs scope out the post-reform delivery world - and their place in it
Abstracts: Psychic contacts. Money matters. The sniff test
Abstracts: Psychologic effects of the diagnosis and treatment of hypercholesterolemia: lessons from case studies. Improving the conduct of epidemiological studies: an introduction to quality principles
Abstracts: Psychosocial predictors of participation in a work site health-promotion program. Demographic and health characteristics of participants and nonparticipants in a work site health-promotion program
Abstracts: Public health implications of the variability in the interpretation of 'B' readings for pleural changes. Influence of smoking on radiographic profusion and pleural changes in asbestos-exposed subjects
Abstracts: Public insurance substituting for private insurance: new evidence regarding public hospitals, uncompensated care funds, and Medicaid
Abstracts: Public reporting and pay-for-performance: safety-net hospital executives' concerns and policy suggestions. Changes in hospital performance after ownership conversions
Abstracts: Pulmonary host defenses and oropharyngeal pathogens. Tissue-plasminogen activator for pulmonary embolism resulting in shock: two case reports and discussion of the literature
Abstracts: Pulmonary hypertension: the bete noire of diffuse connective tissue diseases. Effect of New York State's do-not-resuscitate legislation on in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation practice
Abstracts: Purchasing: a necessary partnership. Survival depends on effective partnerships with suppliers, management, and physicians
Abstracts: Purchasing health care services from providers with unknown altruism. GPs' payment contracts and their referral practice
Abstracts: Putting faith in religion and medicine. Balancing act. Mind/body medicine makes an impression on San Diego
Abstracts: Putting last wishes first. The cost of keeping up. Practice parenting
Abstracts: QALYs and HYEs: under what conditions are they equivalent? Quality-adjusted life-years versus healthy-years equivalents - a comment
Abstracts: QALYs versus HYEs: a reply to Gafni, Birch and Mehrez. Life-cycle preferences over consumption and health: when is cost-effectiveness analysis equivalent for cost-benefit analysis?
Abstracts: QALYs versus HYEs-what's right and what's wrong. A review of the controversy. The willingness to pay for wait reduction: the disutility of queues for cataract surgery in Canada, Denmark, and Spain
Abstracts: Quality and cost: choices and responsibilities. Ensuring value by supporting consumer decision making. The physician as a manager
Abstracts: Quality Assurance in Historical Perspective. The Human Genome Project and Gene Therapy: A Genetic Counselor's Perspective
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