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Abstracts: A Short-Term Approach to Managing under PPS. Exercise training and smoking cessation as the cornerstones of managing claudication
Abstracts: Aspirin in the primary prevention of angina pectoris in a randomized trial of United States physicians. Randomized controlled trial of tissue plasminogen activator in proximal deep venous thrombosis
Abstracts: Assessing and developing team effectiveness. Leadership and change management. Work-team implementation
Abstracts: Assessing cardiovascular status in the older adult with cognitive impairments. Aging without Medicare? Evidence from New York City
Abstracts: Assessing drugs for the treatment of heart failure. Failure of vasodilator infusion to alter pulmonary diffusing capacity in systemic sclerosis
Abstracts: Assessing the evidence on CQI: is the glass half empty or half full? Keys for successful implementation of total quality management in hospitals
Abstracts: Assessing the Market for Long-Term Care Services. Contracting Management Services - Options under PRM 2135. How States Pay for Long-Term Care Facility Services under Medicaid
Abstracts: Assessing the quality of health care: a consumerist approach. Why are older patients and less educated patients less satisfied with health care quality?
Abstracts: Assessment Tools for Evaluating Human Potential. Projecting a Professional Self-Image. Professional Growth: Accent on Potential
Abstracts: Assess MSD risks to improve job design, rotation. Checklist helps assess need for protective equipment. Visual breaks increase productivity
Abstracts: Assisted suicide: is there a future? Ethical and nursing considerations. Incorporating psycho-social considerations into health valuation: an experimental study
Abstracts: Association between antiphospholipid antibodies and cardiac abnormalities in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Abstracts: Association of Helicobacter pylori infection with dyspeptic symptoms in patients undergoing gastroduodenoscopy
Abstracts: Association of market, mission, operational, and financial factors with hospitals' level of cash and security investments
Abstracts: Assuring value in medical care for employees and dependents: an opportunity for occupational physicians. Assuring value in medical care for employees and dependents: Part II
Abstracts: A stated preference approach to assessing health care-quality improvements in Palestine: from theoretical validity to policy implications
Abstracts: A step-by-step approach to identifying a partner - and making the partnership work. Effective alliance - hospital partnering: beyond price
Abstracts: Asthma management: more help is on the way. Menopausal disorders. Respiratory distress syndrome-life threatening in both adults and infants
Abstracts: A survey of hospital salaries: presenting complete, up-to-date information on most key positions. 25 years of hospital management research reviewed
Abstracts: A tad late on latex: NIOSH alert has observers wondering what took the agency so long. If you liked the food, press 1
Abstracts: A tax that could leave workers flat. Be it ever so jumbled. Close, but no panacea
Abstracts: A Ten Year Update on the Marketing Life Cycle for Hospital Information Technologies. Understanding the Effects of Nurses, Patients' Hospital rooms, and Patients' Perception of Control on the Perceived Quality of a Hospital
Abstracts: A theory of health investment under competing mortality risks. The link between public and private insurance and HIV-related mortality
Abstracts: Attitudes of organized labor officials toward health care issues: an exploratory survey of Alabama labor officials
Abstracts: Authors' response to the commentaries. Total quality management: field of dreams? The implementation of total quality management in hospitals: how good is the fit?
Abstracts: Autoantibodies and rheumatic disorders in a neurology inpatient population: a prospective study. Cholesterol-lowering effect of hydroxychloroquine in patients with rheumatic disease: reversal of deleterious effects of steroids on lipids
Abstracts: Autoantibodies in alcoholic liver disease. The lung mucosa: a critical environmental battleground. Myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy, and interstitial lung disease in a 38-year-old man
Abstracts: Autoantibodies in alcoholic liver disease. The syndrome of alcoholic ketoacidosis. Irreversible complete heart block in Lyme disease
Abstracts: Auto-immune and allergy tests: new sources for diagnostic growth? Drug discovery: Bioinformatics: collaloration to develop bio-info software tools
Abstracts: Autoimmunity and alcoholic liver disease. Consensus development conference: prophylaxis and treatment of osteoporosis
Abstracts: Autologous bone marrow transplantation for patients with relapsed Hodgkin's disease. Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage in autologous bone marrow transplant recipients
Abstracts: Automated postdischarge surveillance for postpartum and neonatal nosocomial infections. Gram-negative bacillary pneumonia in the nosocomial setting: role of aztreonam therapy
Abstracts: Avascular necrosis of bone: a common serious complication of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Ecthyma gangrenosum in the absence of pseudomonas bacteremia in a bone marrow transplant recipient
Abstracts: A virtual playground for sick kids. Welcome to Appalachia online. Connect the docs
Abstracts: Avoidable costs of comprehensive case management. Commentary: managed care and the relevant costs for pricing
Abstracts: Avoiding health insurance crowd-out: evidence from the medicare as secondary payer legislation. Health insurance and female labor supply in Taiwan
Abstracts: Avoiding Problems in Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures. Transferring Funds during Corporate Restructuring. What Are the Consequences?
Abstracts: Award: XTRANA/ Department of Defense: contract to delelop nucleic acid-based test for coliform contamination. Xtrana: SBIR bucks for chlamydia POC probes
Abstracts: Awareness campaign nets sorting, recycling benefits. Proper waste sorting begins with good definitions. Execs say Horizon proves that health care problems require local solutions
Abstracts: A windfall without the risks. Kaiser's squeeze play; still smarting from '97 losses, can the managed care giant get fit and trim fast enough?
Abstracts: A winning market strategy for HMOs. Data with destiny. Baptism by fire
Abstracts: Backcountry baby care. Starting over, with H.O.P.E. Reaching out, fighting AIDS
Abstracts: Back from bankruptcy. Combine & conquer: lessons learned from a Minnesota merger. From first to third
Abstracts: Back-to-school bonus. Who you gonna call? Fraudbusters! Help with Medicare maze in jeopardy
Abstracts: Bad debt: Is there relief in sight? S&P credit market services view. Global sales growth moderating, but still strong
Abstracts: Balancing complex choices; integrating strategic, financial plans will test tomorrow's health networks. For-profit or not-for-profit
Abstracts: Banking on bonuses: 1998 salary survey. Aiming high in the lowcountry. Safety smarts
Abstracts: Bank on it. Twin Cities' setback: with health systems upping their bids, employers find health care is still a seller's market
Abstracts: Bankruptcy risk and state regulation of continuing care retirement communities. Antecedents of hospital ownership conversions, mergers and closures
Abstracts: Baton Rouge Woman's Hospital considers patients' sensitivity and machismo in promoting fertility center. Vassar Brothers Hospital pitches its updated maternity wing with an appeal to the strong, modern woman
Abstracts: Battling breast cancer: improvements needed in risk assessment and diagnosis. Medicine and applications
Abstracts: Been there. Done that. Now what? Bricks, mortar and a whole lot more. The top 1% - and counting: happier patients signal hospital's recovery
Abstracts: Being there: whether you're on a mountaintop or in a meeting room, empathy makes the difference - and keeps everyone climbing
Abstracts: Being there: whether you're on a mountaintop or in a meeting room, empathy makes the difference - and keeps everyone climbing. part 2
Abstracts: Benchmarking: a technique for improvement. How to use benchmarking to reduce planning and purchasing costs. The road to business process improvement - can you get there from here?
Abstracts: Benchmarking best practices in Web-based nursing courses. Narrative Pedagogy: Heideggerian hermeneutical analyses of lived experiences of students, teachers, and clinicians
Abstracts: Benefits of a joint nursing and laboratory point-of-care program: nursing and laboratory working together. Implementing an effective point-of-care testing program
Abstracts: Bergen Brunswig exiting med/surgical business via $181 mil. sale to Cardinal. Cohesion's CoStasis surgical hemostat to ship in July, gains FDA approval
Abstracts: Berwick: TQM backlash prompts questions. Independence through security and support. OIG report questions some support surface use
Abstracts: Best practices in managing organized delivery systems. Organizational culture: the critical link between strategy and results
Abstracts: Beta2-microglobulin predicts survival in primary systemic amyloidosis. Advances in primary sclerosing cholangitis
Abstracts: Better Medicare Cost Report Data are Needed to Help Hospitals Benchmark Costs and Performance. The Strategic Behavior of U.S. Rural Hospitals: A Longitudinal and Path Model Examination
Abstracts: Betting against health care. Burned on the street. BrainDrain: a shortage of technical talent is hitting health care especially hard
Abstracts: Beyond tech assessment: balancing needs, strategy. Regional waste pact has layers of dividends. Hospitals move toward image management, but pace is slow
Abstracts: Bidding for hospitals: be ready when a buyer - or lessee - knocks. CEO sets the style of organization's planning
Abstracts: Bigger sales forces for smaller companies. After Redux? Here's how Meridia was introduced into a "tainted" market
Abstracts: Biochemical and hematological evaluation of chloroprene workers. Traveler's diarrhea: new concepts
Abstracts: Biochemical basis of thyroid hormone action in the heart. Artifactual elevation of thyroid-stimulating hormone
Abstracts: Bladder cancer screening at the DuPont Chambers Works: a new initiative. Screening workers exposed to 4,4'-methylenebis(2-chloroaniline) for bladder cancer by cystoscopy
Abstracts: Blood bank: Informatics: first automated screening system cleared by FDA. POC testing: what's the delay?
Abstracts: Blood gas analysis as a determinant of occupationally related disability. Evaluation of flu-like symptoms in workers handling xanthan gum powder
Abstracts: Blood pressure reactivity in urban youth during angry and normal talking. Predictors of ambulatory blood pressure: identification of high-risk adolescents
Abstracts: Board backs community benefit study in Connecticut. Paid to produce. Dynamic pay initiatives
Abstracts: Body support testing and rating. Conservation and laundry: using outside vendors to clean reusable linens. Converting to knit contour sheets
Abstracts: Bone Markers: the missing linkers. Osteoporosis guidelines: has the fat lady sung? the end of bone markers?
Abstracts: Boom (and bust) in the physician management market. Channel-surfing for credits: pressed for time and money, more and more MDs tune in direct-broadcast seminars
Abstracts: Bracing for survival. Switching back to reusable underpads. Reusable linens in the surgery
Abstracts: Bradycardic responses to vagally mediated bedside maneuvers in healthy volunteers. Disseminated aspergillosis in apparently healthy patient
Abstracts: Brand name and generic companies jockey for off-patent business position. Finally, predictable returns on promotional investments
Abstracts: Breaking down assumptions, managing change. Making managed care second nature. Health care reform
Abstracts: Breakthroughs in supplier partnerships: profiting from win-win relationships. Flexible forecasts: a key to better customer service
Abstracts: Break through to 98 percent inventory record integrity in just 120 days. Mission impossible? The boss wants to double our inventory turns
Abstracts: Break through to success with training and teamwork. Level-headed about empowerment. Teams in the workplace: the way to power them to productivity
Abstracts: Breast cancer treatment choice and mastectomy length of stay: a comparison of HMO and other privately insured women
Abstracts: Brief report: pharmacokinetics of ciprofloxacin in young (healthy volunteers) and elderly patients, and concentrations in prostatic fluid, seminal fluid, and prostatic adenoma tissue following intravenous administration
Abstracts: Broadcasters report increase in PSA use for community causes. New product proposes to help manage hospital web sites
Abstracts: Building better patient care services: a collaborative approach. A multifactorial approach to understanding anesthesia selection
Abstracts: Building blocks: is there a difference between a hospital designed to care for the sick and one designed to keep people well?
Abstracts: Build it, and they might come: if a seamless system of care is ever created, it will be the best thing that's ever happened to the chronically ill. But that's a big "if."(chronic care network)
Abstracts: Bundling post-acute care (PAC) with Medicare DRG payments: an exploration of the distributional and risk consequences
Abstracts: Business analysis in occupational health and safety consultations. An outbreak of infectious conjunctivitis spread by microscopes
Abstracts: Business and strategy. MicroArrays: prefabricated cDNA expression microassays. Motorola/Iconix
Abstracts: Business examines hospitals. The next step: the Feds and hospital recognize that payment incentives need changing
Abstracts: Business process reengineering: a pathway for performance improvement. Managing a manual system
Abstracts: Business watch. Joint ventures dissolve as Zantac market shifts. Medical marketing & media's 1998 healthcare advertising agency review
Abstracts: Busybodies & brotherly love: Bladen County Hospital builds a healthier community one neighbor at a time. Happy is as happy does?
Abstracts: Butting heads: Texas hospitals and politicos haggle over windfall from suit against cigarette makers. The Partners merger: still shaking up Bean Town health care?
Abstracts: Bypassing a high-cost surgery. Dollars & sense behind Prop. 187. A stick in time
Abstracts: Calculating the risk: reflections on the Norton Scale. Factors affecting the predictive validity of the Braden Scale
Abstracts: Cameras in Hospital Rooms: The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Physical assessment: a vital nursing tool in both developing and developed countries
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