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Abstracts: Serratia marcescens surgical wound infection following breast reconstruction. Progressive systemic sclerosis complicated by severe hypertension: reversal after silicone implant removal
Abstracts: Serum thyroglobulin concentration as an indicator for assessing thyroid stimulation in patients with Graves' disease during antithyroid drug therapy
Abstracts: Setting the record straight in the reply by DiMasi, Hansen and Grabowski. Discussion - extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
Abstracts: Severity of disability due to occupational low back injury after lumbar laminectomy for degenerative disc disease
Abstracts: Sexually harassed. Managing chaos. Satisfaction guaranteed: contingency pricing may win patients, but critics call it crass
Abstracts: Sham worker-safety meeting turned crackdown comprises OSHA effectiveness. Aching backs need not drain productivity
Abstracts: Sham worker-safety meeting turned crackdown comprises OSHA effectiveness. part 2 Develop action plans to secure management committee
Abstracts: Shared sacrifice: the right message for America. Capitation and reform: challenges and choices for hospital leadership
Abstracts: Sharp HealthCare integrates services to link patients to appropriate level of care. Laurel system strives to improve region's health status by emphasizing continuum of care
Abstracts: Sharp HealthCare integrates services to link patients to appropriate level of care. part 2 Execs say Horizon proves that health care problems require local solutions
Abstracts: Shifting sands: state laws redefine records accessibility. Doctor, the patient will see you now (an "oversupply" of physicians)
Abstracts: Shopping for surgery: consumers want to talk outcomes - and have a say in their care decisions. Fewer nuclear waste sites poses problems for hospitals
Abstracts: Should helicopter frequent flyers wear head protection? A study of helmet effectiveness. German risk structure compensation: enhancing equity and effectiveness
Abstracts: Should the government regulate physician supply? Financial incentives and gaming in alcohol treatment. Matching physician supply and requirements: testing policy recommendations
Abstracts: Show us the money; state officials want to know how foundations created by hospital sales lan to spend their riches
Abstracts: Shuttered hospital's second chance. Street-smart health care; Chicago hospital reaches out through partnerships that help turn around inner-city lives
Abstracts: Sick & tired; reinventing the public health care system may be its only hope for survival. The doctor is in
Abstracts: Sign on and say 'Ah-h-h-h-h-.'(cybermedicine) Nurses' aid: labor groups look to nursing to boost their dwindling ranks, promising tough tactics
Abstracts: Size does matter. Gold in goldenseal: healing herbs have become a cash crop - part of an alternative medicine market reaching as high as $40 billion a year
Abstracts: Skin pretreatment and the use of transdermal clonidine. Improving compliance in an inner-city hypertensive patient population
Abstracts: Slashing cycle time in all we do: techniques for success. Profiting from cycle time reductions. Radio frequency solutions to shorten cycle time and increase accuracy
Abstracts: Sleep apnea and systemic hypertension: a causal association review. Diagnostic criteria and technology as sources for changing incidences of pulmonary diseases
Abstracts: Slicing the pie thinner: hospitals and physicians square off over primary care services. Your friendly neighborhood diagnosis-aiding talking computer
Abstracts: Sliding-scale premium health insurance programs: four states' experiences. A federal tax credit to encourage employers to offer health coverage
Abstracts: Small area analysis of hospital discharges for musculoskeletal diseases in Michigan: the influence of socioeconomic factors
Abstracts: Small area analysis of hospital discharges for musculoskeletal diseases in Michigan: the influence of socioeconomic factors. part 2
Abstracts: Small group reform and insurance provision by small firms, 1989-1995. Do "any willing provider"and "freedom of choice" laws affect HMO market share?
Abstracts: Small group reform in a competitive managed care market: the case of California, 1993 to 1995. Patient choice of physician: do health insurance and physician characteristics matter?
Abstracts: Smart move: CEOs say succession planning up. Hospitals work through Superfund citations. Hospitals find ways to integrate risk-management functions
Abstracts: Smart moves: good management, not technology, will steer movement to outpatient care. Form follows function: patient-centered care needs strong facilities planning
Abstracts: Smoking cessation and health: a comment. Smoking cessation and health: a response. Dollars and performance: treating alcohol misuse in Maine
Abstracts: Smoking, health knowledge, and anti-smoking campaigns: an empirical study in Taiwan. Smoking, health, risk, and perception
Abstracts: Social support in critically ill adults: a replication. Antibiotics: why they fail in patients who are critically ill
Abstracts: Social workers in the ED tackle many problems. On-the-job training vital supplement to degree. The new finance department: CQI triggers big changes in role
Abstracts: Software: 350,000 analyzed cancer cases and tumor registry software. Medicine and applications: cancer
Abstracts: Software for hard choices. A line drawn in the sand. A hospice goes high-tech
Abstracts: Software for slimming down. Rocky mountain rumble. Where the medicine goes down
Abstracts: Soliciting and evaluating quality-based bids. The environmental challenge. After the merger: now what?
Abstracts: Soliciting and evaluating quality-based bids. The operating room as a source of recycling material. The future role of materiel management
Abstracts: Some pitfalls in making cost estimates of state health insurance coverage expansions. Do shifts toward service industries, part-time work, ad self-employment explain the rising uninsured rate?
Abstracts: So much for collegiality. Second thoughts on selling. Managed care: far from academic
Abstracts: Southwest Georgia: Columbus partnership targets health status of 10-county area. HIAA President Bill Gradison
Abstracts: So you're the project leader: 10 roadblocks to watch out for. Creativity: the key to breakthrough changes, how teaming can harness collective knowledge
Abstracts: S&P credit market services view. Comparative company analysis- healthcare, managed care
Abstracts: Speaking softly...while introducing a breakthrough brand. Tapping into "emotional truth." Agencies push creative envelope with dimension, satire, and drama
Abstracts: Specimen collection: saliva: files for patent on new saliva collection. Drugs of abuse: Avitar: ORALscreen test membrane patent
Abstracts: Spectral Diagnostics: U.S. Navy selects rapid cardiac panel. Acute mycardial infarction-what treatment changes can we expect by 2010
Abstracts: Spirited controversy: reproductive services force executives to weigh church teaching vs. community good. False metaphors
Abstracts: Springboards of communications. Quest for quality: its time has come! Quality of life
Abstracts: Standard gamble, time trade-off and rating scale: experimental results on the ranking properties of QALYs. Income-related inequality in life-years and quality-adjusted life-years
Abstracts: Standardization of orthopedic hip and knee implants. CEO expectations of the pharmacist materiel manager. Materiel executives and the managed care continuum in a capitated environment
Abstracts: Staphylococcal pyomyositis in patients infected by the human immunodeficiency virus. Response of HIV-associated disseminated cat scratch disease to treatment with doxycycline
Abstracts: Starting up the upstarts. Power to the patients: Healthwise teaches Boise residents to take charge of their health care
Abstracts: State health reform; five trends that will transform hospitals. Credit enhancement: hospitals, investors seek better value
Abstracts: State-of-the-Art Conference on azidothymidine therapy for early HIV infection. Primal scream therapy: a new cause of Mallory-Weiss tear
Abstracts: State reproductive policies and adolescent pregnancy resolution: the case of parental involvement laws. The consequences and costs of maternal substance abuse in New York City: a pooled time-series, cross-section analysis
Abstracts: States extend message of Stark referral bill. Austin decision good news for peer reviewers. States scramble for solutions under new Medicaid law
Abstracts: States' reactions to federal Medicaid cuts still uncertain. Comprehensive rehabilitation care will take prominent place in delivery system
Abstracts: St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. Johnson City Medical Center. Opus Diagnostic Imaging
Abstracts: Stimulation of glycosaminoglycan synthesis in cultured human dermal fibroblasts by interleukin 1. Induction of hyaluronic acid synthesis by natural and recombinant interleukin 1s and synthetic interleukin 1 beta peptide 163-171
Abstracts: Stochastic technology, production organization and costs. The impact of local welfare offices on children's enrollment in Medicaid and SCHIP
Abstracts: Straight talk: doctor-driven systems tell how they've gained physician allies. Eroding empires
Abstracts: Strategic marketing for charitable organizations. Booming business, minimal marketing: the child care industry
Abstracts: Strategic marketing for charitable organizations. The use of marketing strategy by pharmacists. Marketing mental health: a case study of the INTERACT mental health newsletter
Abstracts: Strategic planning in rural health care organizations. An analysis of physician recruitment strategies in rural hospitals
Abstracts: Strategic shakeup: CFOs prepare for a new age of hospital planning. Favorable trend: low bond rates enable hospitals to save money
Abstracts: Strategies for small community hospitals operating in the shadow of a medical center. Formulating hospital strategy: moving beyond a market mentality
Abstracts: Strategizing health care for an aging America. Toppling the power of the pyramid: team-based restructuring for TQM, patient-centered care
Abstracts: Strategy Formulation and Strategic Planning in Hospitals: Application of an Industrial Model. Ambulatory Care: Can Hospitals Compete?
Abstracts: Strategy Formulation and Strategic Planning in Hospitals: Application of an Industrial Model. part 2 Incorporating an understanding of independent practice physician culture into hospital structure and operations
Abstracts: Strength in numbers. Easy-does-it design. Hospital volunteerism in the '90s
Abstracts: Streptococcus mitis sepsis in bone marrow transplant patients receiving oral antimicrobial prophylaxis. Therapeutic antibiotic monitoring: surveillance using a computerized expert system
Abstracts: Streptokinase therapy for deep vein thrombosis: a comprehensive review of the English literature. Varicella hepatitis in the immunocompromised adult: a case report and review of the literature
Abstracts: Stress ulcer prophylaxis in the critically ill: a meta-analysis. Diagnosis of iron-deficiency anemia in the elderly
Abstracts: Strive for consistency in safety message, actions. RTW assignments require planned time frame. Ergo investments foster safety, lower comp rates
Abstracts: Strive for consistency in safety message, actions. Stretching programs can hinder MSD development. Achieve employee buy-in more easily with incentives
Abstracts: Stroke prevention in women: role of aspirin versus ticlopidine. Should women be tested for gonococcal infection of the cervix during routine gynecologic visits? An economic appraisal
Abstracts: Structural incentives and adoption of medical technologies in HMO and fee-for-service health insurance plans. The impact of HMO competition on private health insurance, 1985-1992
Abstracts: Structured problem solving for materiel managers. World-class materiel flexibility: one plant's victory over materiel-related downtime
Abstracts: Struggling to gain meaning: living with the uncertainty of breast cancer. Living with chronic illness
Abstracts: Study results: prediction and prevention of pressure ulcers in surgical patients. Pressure ulcer risk factors in the operating room
Abstracts: Successfully managing managed care: organizational skills needed by hospitals to compete in an era of managed care
Abstracts: Succession planning - how to perpetuate your leadership. Leading change, overcoming chaos - making change succeed in your organization
Abstracts: Summary of the first 100 patients seen at a Lyme disease referral center. Isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi from the blood of seven patients with Lyme disease
Abstracts: Summary oral reflective analysis: a method for interview data analysis in feminist qualitative research. Cultural relativism and cultural diversity: implications for nursing practice
Abstracts: Supplier-managed inventory: schedule sharing. Six ways to reduce inventory. Inventory management for cardiac catheterization labs: the Princeton-Baptist Medical Center experience
Abstracts: Supplies 'R' us. Two HMOs play 'Let's make a deal.' (Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound and Kaiser Permanente's Northwest Division)
Abstracts: Supply-side cost sharing when patients and doctors collude. Discounting health increments. The income transfer effect, the access value of insurance and the Rand health insurance experiment
Abstracts: Surfing the Net for a health plan. Forward motion on medical advances. The right to appeal: it's both flash point and pivot point of consumer protections under managed care
Abstracts: Surgeon volume and hospital resource utilization. Organization design of integrated delivery systems. Admission severity of illness and resource utilization: comparing Medicaid and privately insured patients
Abstracts: Surgical therapy for heart failure: care of the patient with partial left ventriculectomy. Physiologic changes in heart failure - "What's new"
Abstracts: Surgical therapy for heart failure: care of the patient with partial left ventriculectomy. part 2 Facts and fallacies of patient positioning and hemodynamic measurement
Abstracts: Surgical wound infection. Analysis of risk factors for surgical wound infections following vascular surgery. Risk factors for postoperative infection
Abstracts: Survey: many CEOs overlook PR staff's role in strategic planning. Openness is the key to trustee bonding
Abstracts: Survey: many CEOs overlook PR staff's role in strategic planning. part 2 CEOs: planning next career move no easy task
Abstracts: Survival depends on effective partnerships with suppliers, management, and physicians. Tomorrow's materiel management executive today
Abstracts: Survival following mechanical ventilation for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a different perspective
Abstracts: Survival of the biggest. Going to court for clout. Score one for good coaching
Abstracts: Susan J. Quaal: the global and local impact of a transformational leader. Martha N. Hill: transformational leader
Abstracts: Susceptibility to nucleoside analogues of zidovudine-resistant isolates of human immunodeficiency virus. Salvage therapy for zidovudine-intolerant HIV-infected patients with alternating and intermittent regimens of zidovudine and dideoxycytidine
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