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Abstracts: Quality Control Circles as a Management Tool. Quality Circles in the Hospital Setting. The Quality Practitioner
Abstracts: Quality incentives in a regulated market with imperfect information and switching costs: capitation in general practice
Abstracts: Quality of health care and financial performance: is there a link? Demand/capacity management in health care: an application of yield management
Abstracts: Quality of health care, survival and health outcomes in Ghana. Measuring health inequality using qualitative data
Abstracts: Quality, sacrifice, and value in hospital choice. Diagnosing perceived quality in the medical service channel
Abstracts: Quest Diagnostics. Is Abbott Laboratories moving from immunoassays to everything? Technology and products: cardiology: PharmaNetics: coagulation therapy panel
Abstracts: Questioning the chains of habit. Cardiovascular clinical specialist: insights and inspirations. My transformation as a leader in cardiovascular nursing
Abstracts: Quick and continuous improvement through kaizen blitz. Rapid-fire improvement with short-cycle kaizen. The "Special K" in kaizen
Abstracts: Quick fixes? Patrick Hays: CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association of America. Not ready for prime time
Abstracts: Quick Study. Poised and prosperous. Like ants to a picnic
Abstracts: Quinolone resistance: susceptibility data from a 300-bed community hospital. Comparative penetration of selected fluoroquinolones into respiratory tract fluids and tissues
Abstracts: Racial Disparities in Service Use among Medicaid Beneficiaries after Mandatory Enrollment in Manged Care: A Difference-in-Differences Approach
Abstracts: Rationale for cholesterol lowering. Overview of clinical trials of cholesterol lowering in relationship to epidemiologic studies
Abstracts: Rationale for treatment. Management of hypertension and cardiovascular risk. Cigarette smoking, adiposity, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, and coronary heart disease in Japanese-American men
Abstracts: RBRVS impact: academic medical centers gauge impact of new fee schedule. Standing RBRVS on its head: educational, operational solutions to MD quandaries
Abstracts: Ready, set go: positioning for coming changes. The data debate: CIOs weigh issues, obstacles to information networks
Abstracts: Ready. Set. Wait! Don't just make deals for the sake of making deals. Make them because it's the right thing to do
Abstracts: Reasons for participation and nonparticipation in a colorectal cancer screening program for a cohort of high risk polypropylene workers
Abstracts: Recent trends in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage: are bad jobs getting worse? 'Competition' among employers offering health insurance
Abstracts: Receptor function in heart failure. Clinical pharmacology of ibopamine. Cardiovascular pharmacology of adrenergic and dopaminergic receptors: therapeutic significance in congestive heart failure
Abstracts: Recombinant human erythropoietin as a treatment for anemia of prematurity. Pharmacologic management of apnea of prematurity
Abstracts: Records Management Audit. Records Management Control System: Central Files. Workload and Staffing in the Medical Records Department at Church Hospital
Abstracts: Recurrence of initial pressure ulcer in persons with spinal cord injuries. Measuring prevalence and incidence of pressure ulcers
Abstracts: Recycling in a multihospital system. The future of medical waste regulation: simplicity and consistency as goals
Abstracts: Reduce forestry injuries with safety procedures. Build an ergo program with these 9 secrets to success. Poor communication stymies safety programs
Abstracts: Reducing costs and improving processes for the interventional cardiology patient. Study of mechanical versus manual/mechanical compression following various interventional cardiology procedures
Abstracts: Reducing staff turnover: a case study of dialysis facilities. Provider integration and local market conditions: a contingency theory perspective
Abstracts: Reengineering: deja vu all over again. The implementation of total quality management in hospitals: how good is the fit?
Abstracts: Reengineering the front office: cashing in on the cash cow. Strategy: the key to financial payback from reengineering
Abstracts: Reengineering the work of caregivers: role redefinition, team structures, and organizational redesign. Alzheimer's disease: more victims but more hope
Abstracts: Refinements to the Diagnostic Cost Group (DCG) model. The impact of accounting and actuarial practice differences on medical loss ratios: an exploratory study of five HMOs
Abstracts: Reform of the Medicare AAPCC: learning from previous proposals. Government as reinsurer: potential impacts on public and private spending
Abstracts: Regulatory outlook brightens. Regulation. Long-term care traumatized by BBA
Abstracts: Rehabbing Medicare: is managed care a cure-all or just a crutch? Albuquerque, New Mexico: systems integration is prelude to development of AHPs
Abstracts: Rejection of Oregon plan a setback to reform. Sullivan: White House moving ahead on reform. Don't let uncertainty keep you from action
Abstracts: Relationship between diabetes control and pulmonary function in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Effective treatment of bulimia with fluoxetine, a serotonin reuptake inhibitor, in a patient with type I diabetes mellitus
Abstracts: Remarketing, yes, remarketing health care. Hospital marketing and the Internet. Marketing on the Internet
Abstracts: Renovascular hypertension. Peripheral arterial disease of the lower extremity. Aortic dissection
Abstracts: Replication of the human immunodeficiency virus 1 and impaired differentiation of T cells after in vitro infection of bone marrow immature T cells
Abstracts: Reply - setting the record straight on setting the record straight: response to the Light and Warburton rejoinder
Abstracts: Reply - setting the record straight on setting the record straight: response to the Light and Warburton rejoinder. part 2
Abstracts: Reply to Johannesson's and Karlsson's comment. Modeling the effects of health on economic growth. On the economic foundations of CEA. Ladies and gentlemen, take your positions!
Abstracts: Research connections. Driving with an internal defibrillator: legal, ethical, and quality-of-life issues. Health-related quality of life as an outcome for patients with heart failure
Abstracts: Researching high-risk groups. Explaining blood donation: the trust factor. Rude awakening: one marketer faces reality as daughters experience their first service encounter
Abstracts: Resistance to ciprofloxacin appearing during therapy. Efficacy and safety of higher-dose intravenous ciprofloxacin in severe hospital-acquired infections
Abstracts: Resource guide for quality and cost management. Reducing malpractice costs. International comparisons of health care expenditures and satisfaction
Abstracts: Respiratory allergy and specific immunoglobulin E and immunoglobulin G antibodies to reactive dyes used in the wool industry
Abstracts: Respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants: a significant challenge for optimal care. Intravenous immunoglobulin: what nurses need to know
Abstracts: Rest breaks reduce injury risks. Workplace injuries decline; MSD injury culprits. Proactive approach may reduce workers' shoulder injuries
Abstracts: Restoring public trust. 8 steps to making capitation work. Under scrutiny
Abstracts: Restructuring materiel management functions: a method for prioritizing changes and reducing costs. Cost cutting for hospitals: a heuristic approach
Abstracts: Results of a work-site educational and screening program for hypertension and cancer. Screening blood test identifies subclinical beryllium disease
Abstracts: Retail health marketing: evaluating consumers' choice for healthier foods. The use of marketing strategy by pharmacists
Abstracts: Retro tech. Remote control. The mouse that roared
Abstracts: Returning to our origins. Admission severity of illness and resource utilization: comparing Medicaid and privately insured patients
Abstracts: Reversible pulmonary hypertension associated with anorexigen use. Pulmonary host defenses and oropharyngeal pathogens
Abstracts: Reversible pulmonary hypertension associated with anorexigen use. part 2 Cocaine-associated asthma
Abstracts: Review exclusive contracts in light of recent challenges. HCFA's bundled CABG payment project yields results, insights
Abstracts: Revisiting Rogowski and Newhouse on the indirect costs of teaching: a note on functional form and retransformation in Medicare's payment of formulas
Abstracts: Reward ceremonies: compensating people to perform new roles finally takes center stage. Modest increases, except at the top
Abstracts: Reweighing heat: response to Culyer, van Doorslaer and Wagstaff. What influences participation in genetic carrier testing? Results from a discrete choice experiment
Abstracts: Richard Doyle. Technology and treatments on trial. Incent me
Abstracts: Rifampicin-induced pure red cell aplasia. Danazol-induced hepatocellular adenoma. Detection of Epstein-Barr virus DNA by in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction in salivary gland biopsy specimens from patients with Sjogren's syndrome
Abstracts: Rilmenidine: a novel antihypertensive agent. Pharmacokinetics of rilmenidine. Recent advances in the pharmacology of rilmenidine
Abstracts: Rising deficits threaten industry growth. Comparative analysis - health care: managed care. Comparative company analysis - healthcare, managed care
Abstracts: Risk adjustment for the Medicare program: lessons learned from research and demonstrations. The cost effectiveness of post-acute care for elderly Medicare beneficiaries
Abstracts: Risk adjustment of mental health and substance abuse payments. Health plans and selection: formal risk adjustment vs. market design and contracts
Abstracts: Risk adjustment: where are we now? Telephone service interruption weighting adjustments for state health insurance surveys
Abstracts: Risk Assessment Tools for Pressure Ulcers. Skin care in the frail, elderly, dependent, incontinent patient. Biomedical impedance as a discriminator of pressure ulcer risk
Abstracts: Risk factors for amphotericin B-associated nephrotoxicity. Risk factors for nosocomial candidemia: a case control study in adults without leukemia
Abstracts: Risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia in the elderly. Gram-negative bacillary pneumonia in the nosocomial setting: role of aztreonam therapy
Abstracts: Risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia in the elderly. Transmission of measles in medical settings - United States, 1985-1989
Abstracts: Risk-sharing integration efforts in the hospital sector. In times of transition: an organizational change from a family systems perspective
Abstracts: RN participation in organizational decision making and improvements in resident outcomes. A comparative study of resident, family, and administrator expectations for service quality in nursing homes
Abstracts: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Santa Rosa Health Care. Baptist Hospital East
Abstracts: Robodoc: study tests robot's use in hip surgery. Wireless radio system reduces intercom noise. Contracting gains ground: annual survey shows 10% rise in use of contract services
Abstracts: Rochester: community rating = insurance access. Clinical pathway across tertiary and community care after an interventional cardiology procedure
Abstracts: Role of hypnotic drugs in general practice. Safety of estazolam: the United States clinical experience. Efficacy of estazolam: the United States clinical experience
Abstracts: Role of medical screening in the prevention of occupational disease. Suing the doctor: lawsuits by injured workers against the occupational physician
Abstracts: Role of medical screening in the prevention of occupational disease. part 2 Interpretation and communication of the results of medical field investigations
Abstracts: Rural views on reform: rural execs see challenges, contradictions ahead. States scramble for solutions under new Medicaid law
Abstracts: Safety of intravenous ciprofloxacin. Safety of oral ciprofloxacin: an update based on clinical trial results. Ciprofloxacin: toxicologic evaluation of additional safety data
Abstracts: Safety of parenteral third-generation cephalosporins. Overview of fluoroquinolone safety. Ceftriaxone-induced granulopenia related to a peculiar mechanism of granulopoiesis inhibition
Abstracts: Saint Joseph's Medical Center. Opus Diagnostic Imaging. Wisconsin Nurses Association
Abstracts: Salaries aren't what they once were cracked up to be. Matching dental offerings with expectations. Following the drill: the search for a dentist. Consumers' behavior varies depending on whether they need routine or specialized care
Abstracts: Sales is an investment, attrition an expense. Internal marketing builds service quality. Advertising health care services
Abstracts: San Diego: as a market matures, networks feel growing pains. Sizing up Pennsylvania: Geisinger aims to reshape its delivery system
Abstracts: Satisfaction with HMOs: accessibility issues top the list for patients in commercial groups. Is managed care managing to kill us? 'Conspiracy of silence' is taking its toll on health care professionals
Abstracts: Satisfaction with nursing homes: the design of employees' jobs can ultimately influence family members' perceptions
Abstracts: Scott-Levin in U.S. to go solo. Clark-O'Neill/POL to offer drug sampling via the Internet. An open-and shut-contract
Abstracts: SCP Communications, major CME provider, acquires Cliggott, major journal publisher. DuPont buys out Merck's interest in joint venture
Abstracts: Screening for bladder cancer in high-risk groups: delineation of the problem. Screening workers exposed to 4,4'-methylenebis(2-chloroaniline) for bladder cancer by cystoscopy
Abstracts: Screening the preventable illness. The incentive effects of the Medicare indirect medical education policy. Statistical discrimination in health care
Abstracts: Searching the literature: more resources to make the purchase decision. Nursing input into the purchase decision reveals costs not included in the price tag
Abstracts: Seeing renewed role, IS vendors align for post-reform realities. Paying and delivering: insurers and providers find road to reform is a two-way street
Abstracts: Seeing renewed role, IS vendors align for post-reform realities. part 2 Computers make 'house calls' to patients
Abstracts: Selection and Economical Use of Hospital Legal Counsel. Hospital specialization and cost efficiency: benefits of trimming product lines
Abstracts: Selection bias in HMOs and PPOs: a review of the evidence. Do HMOs make a difference? Consumer assessments of health care
Abstracts: Senior health day. Forecasting the adoption of new medical technology using the Bass model. Physician information acquisition and believability: a field experiment on source and type of information
Abstracts: Sensitive managers can improve the working environment. Affordable computing for financial managers. Word processing in hospitals: improve information handling while holding down costs
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