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Abstracts: Developing a service line approach to quality improvement. Quality improvement: an overview(Quality Outcomes) The clinical experience of continuous quality improvement in the neonatal intensive care unit
Abstracts: Developing improved observational methods for evaluating therapeutic effectiveness. Does prophylaxis prevent postdental infective endocarditis? a controlled evaluation of protective efficacy
Abstracts: Developing job-related preplacement medical examinations. Occupational dermatitis among hairdressers. Mortality among men employed between 1943 and 1947 at a uranium-processing plant
Abstracts: Development and Interpretation of the Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG's). Applying nuclear medicine to the early diagnosis of Inflammation
Abstracts: Diabetic retinopathy: can we modify its course? Diabetic nephropathy: can the natural history be modified? Autonomic influence on cardiovascular performance in diabetic subjects
Abstracts: Diagnosing cardiac ischemia with breath-taking speed. Merger and acquisition activity gains pace. Casting salmonella in a positive light
Abstracts: Diarrhea with enteral feeding: will the real cause please stand up? Rapid improvement in dermatitis after zinc supplementation in a patient with Crohn's disease
Abstracts: Dideoxycytidine: current clinical experience and future prospects: a summary. Dideoxycytidine (ddC): a potent antiretroviral agent for human immunodeficiency virus infection: an introduction
Abstracts: Did formaldehyde cause lung cancer? Reanalysis of lung cancer mortality in a National Cancer Institute study of "mortality among industrial workers exposed to formaldehyde": additional discussion
Abstracts: Differences in prescription drug utilization and expenditures between blacks and whites in the Georgia Medicaid population
Abstracts: Differential expression of the two human arginase genes in hyperargininemia. Enzymatic, pathologic, and molecular analysis
Abstracts: Dimensions of accountability for not-for-profit hospitals and health systems. A premerger profile of Columbia and HCA hospitals
Abstracts: Dimensions of Patient Empowerment: Implications for Professional Services Marketing. Factors Influencing Employee Health Plan Choice in the Corporate Setting
Abstracts: Disabling backache in France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands: contrasting sociopolitical constraints on clinical judgment
Abstracts: Discontinuous calcitonin treatment of established osteoporosis - effects of withdrawal of treatment. Serum lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins during postmenopausal estrogen replacement therapy combined with either 19-nortestosterone derivatives or 17-hydroxyprogesterone derivatives
Abstracts: Discretionary Hospital Use and Diagnostic Risk Adjustment of Medicare HMO Capitation Rates. PACE and the Medicare+Choice Risk-Adjusted Payment Model
Abstracts: Disseminated intravascular coagulation in pregnancy: an update. Prevention of hepatitis B and C transmission during pregnancy and the first year of life
Abstracts: Disseminated intravascular coagulation in pregnancy: an update. part 2 Neonatal disseminated intravascular coagulation
Abstracts: Disulfiram treatment of alcoholism. Alcohol abuse: comparison of two methods for assessing its prevalence and associated morbidity in hospitalized patients
Abstracts: Diversification: broadening hospital services: what makes sense? Marketing: a tool that serves hospitals' survival instincts
Abstracts: Do attending physicians really percuss? A study of the rate of postexposure human immunodeficiency virus testing in a hospital requiring written informed consent
Abstracts: Doctors turned programmers. Getting the picture. Is your back-office a backwater?
Abstracts: Does improving geographic access to VA primary care services impact patient's patterns of utilization and costs?
Abstracts: Does increasing the beer tax reduce marijuana consumption? Modeling risk using generalized linear models. Statistical inference of progressivity dominance: an application to health care financing distributions
Abstracts: Does managed care affect the supply and use of ICU services? How adequate are state data to support health reform or monitor health system change?
Abstracts: Do HMOs make a difference? Data and methods. Do HMOs make a difference? Access to health care. Do HMOs make a difference? Introduction
Abstracts: Do HMOs make a difference? Use of health services. Do HMOs make a difference? Summary and implications. Long-term care over an uncertain future: what can current retiree expect?
Abstracts: Doing Good and Doing Well: Ethics, Professionalism and Success. Administrative Ethics and the Health Services Manager
Abstracts: Dollars and death. Every dollar counts; in an Alabama program, patients invest in the quality of their 'free' care
Abstracts: Dollars and death. Market spider: a new tool measures the maturity of managed care markets. Behind closed doors: what would you learn if you were a fly on the wall while your competitors were mapping out their managed care strategy?
Abstracts: Do new prescription drugs pay for themselves? The case of second generation antipsychotics. Parallel imports and the pricing of pharmaceutical products: evidence from the European Union
Abstracts: Don't fence us in. Helping hands. The Thursday hospital
Abstracts: Don't fence us in. The Partners merger: still shaking up Bean Town health care? Ten tips: an ambulatory care primer
Abstracts: Don't force change - facilitate it. The Genesis Enterprise: creating peak-to-peak performance. It's 8 A.M.: do you know where your paradigm is?
Abstracts: Don't let uncertainty keep you from action. Clinton, health care, and the crystal ball. Reform and our ability to lead
Abstracts: Don't throw out the baby with the bath water! Limits of competition. Survival of the fittest
Abstracts: Do people shift their use of health services over time to take advantage of insurance? Health insurance and retirement behavior: evidence from the health and retirement survey
Abstracts: Do physicians and hospitals share capitation? Changing cultures: hospital staffs get used to patient-centered care plans
Abstracts: Double-blind randomized study of oral temafloxacin and cefadroxil in patients with mild to moderately severe bacterial skin infections
Abstracts: Do viruses contribute to the development of Sjogren's syndrome? Circulating interferon-alpha levels and hypertriglyceridemia in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
Abstracts: Dramatic response of follicular thyroid carcinoma with superior vena cava syndrome and tracheal obstruction to external-beam radiotherapy
Abstracts: Dr. Koop's network is an awards winner! Detroit Receiving Hospital to receive major art work from bank. Medica'98-The World Forum for Doctors' Surgeries and Hospitals
Abstracts: Dr. Shutterbug. Cookbook insurance. Doctors got a brand new bag
Abstracts: Drug discovery: Affymetrix: Affymetrix to provide arrays to Rhone-Poulenc. Infectious disease: Antex
Abstracts: Drug discovery and diagnostic targets in synergy. Amgen, Biogen, Chiron: early biotechs now in the top 50 Rx. AstraZeneca: a vault into the top 5 worldwide
Abstracts: Drug holidays: a vacation from medications. Improving personal effectiveness through better management of time
Abstracts: Drug-induced torsades de pointes: role of early afterdepolarizations and dispersion of repolarization. Pathologic sleepiness induced by caffeine
Abstracts: Drug lores. Global healthcare exchange staffing up, enlisting customers and companies. Global drug sales top $400 billion
Abstracts: Drugs & money. Facilitating biotech: highlights from BioSquare 2003. Money Talks
Abstracts: DVA to study financial impact of home care. Pain centers take many approaches to patient care. Insurers see EDI as key ingredient of cost cutting
Abstracts: Dysrhythmia formation in the older adult. Applying social and behavioral theory as a template in containing and confining VRE
Abstracts: Dysrhythmia update
Abstracts: Early defibrillation: lessons learned. The ABCs of teaching advanced cardiac life support. Basic life support: controversial and unresolved issues
Abstracts: Early occurrence of aortic valve regurgitation in a youth with systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Prognostic significance of valvular regurgitation in patients with infective endocarditis
Abstracts: Economical humidity control: an alternative to reheat. Deep venous thrombosis. Mild hypothermia: an alternative to deep hypothermia for achieving neuroprotection
Abstracts: Economic conditions and alcohol problems. Healthy living in hard times. Parental leave and child health
Abstracts: Economic foundations of cost-effectiveness analysis. User charges and priority setting in health care: balancing equity and efficiency
Abstracts: Economic grand rounds: a forum for cost consciousness. Recruiting physicians: avoiding the legal minefield. Customer information and the quality improvement process: developing a customer information system
Abstracts: Economic incentives, health status and health services utilisation. Agency in health care: getting beyond first principles
Abstracts: Economics, health and health economics: HYEs versus QALYs; a response. Modelling programme costs in economic evaluation
Abstracts: Economic value added - a framework for health care executive compensation. Critical strategies for successful rural hospitals
Abstracts: Economies of scope in physicians' work: the performance of multiple surgery. Half empty or half full, it will be a smaller glass
Abstracts: Education, enforcement hallmarks of effective program. Implement low-cost ergonomic solutions. Employer documentation required when worker refuses light duty
Abstracts: Education policy is health policy. Money and mandates: relative effects of key policy levels in expanding health insurance coverage to all Americans
Abstracts: Effective evaluation of team performance. Teaching us to fish: a commentary on "Accountability for Health Care."
Abstracts: Effective performance measurements. Inventory accuracy in 60 days! Value-added forecasting
Abstracts: Effect of 6-month gliclazide treatment on insulin release and sensitivity to endogenous insulin in NIDDM: role of initial continuous subcutaneous insulin-induced normoglycemia
Abstracts: Effect of a total work-site smoking ban on employee smoking attitudes. Work site smoking cessation: a meta-analysis of long-term quit rates from controlled studies
Abstracts: Effects of acetylsalicylic acid on renal function in patients with chronic heart failure. Effects of diuresis on the characteristics of pleural fluid in patients with congestive heart failure
Abstracts: Effects of acute ischemia in the dog on myocardial blood flow, beta receptors, and adenylate cyclase activity with and without chronic beta blockade
Abstracts: Effects of glyburide on in vivo insulin-mediated glucose disposal. Molecular mechanisms of action of glyburide on the beta cell
Abstracts: Effects of parathyroid hormone on cytosolic free calcium concentration in individual rabbit connecting tubules
Abstracts: Effects of premium increases on enrollment in SCHIP: findings from three states. The effect of parent's insurance coverage on access to care for low-income children
Abstracts: Effects of "second generation" small group health insurance market reforms, 1993 to 1997. Long-term care insurance underwriting: understanding eventual claims experience
Abstracts: Effects specialty hospitals on the financial performance of general hospitals, 1997-2004. The effects of CON repeal on Medicaid nursing home and long-term care expenditures
Abstracts: Efficacy and safety of ofloxacin in the treatment of nongonococcal sexually transmitted disease. In vitro activity of ofloxacin against Chlamydia trachomatis
Abstracts: Efficacy of cilazapril compared with hydrochlorothiazide in the treatment of mild-to-moderate essential hypertension
Abstracts: Efficacy of intranasal human calcitonin in patients with Paget's disease refractory to salmon calcitonin. Effect of progestin therapy on cortical and trabecular bone: comparison with estrogen
Abstracts: Efficacy of intravenous gammaglobulin therapy in chronic refractory polymyositis and dermatomyositis: an open study with 20 adult patients
Abstracts: Efficacy of temafloxacin versus ciprofloxacin or amoxicillin in lower respiratory tract infections in smokers and the elderly
Abstracts: Efficient approach to health care industry materiel resource management: an empirical research. The 1990s: prescription for success
Abstracts: Egging people on. Prospective payment gets legs. Big spender: signs show that Medicare, once considered a skinflint by doctors is looking better
Abstracts: Elasticity estimates from a dynamic model of interrelated demands for private and public acute health care. Uncertainty and health care spending by the poor: the health capital model revisited
Abstracts: Electroconvulsive therapy and cyclophosphamide in combination for severe neuropsychiatric lupus with catatonia
Abstracts: Electronic data interchange in hospital materiel management. The emerging roles of computers in materiel management
Abstracts: Electronic fetal monitoring then and now. Risk management and electronic fetal monitoring: decreasing risk of adverse outcomes and liability exposure
Abstracts: Electronic medical record makes life simpler for clinic physicians. Revolution in the wings; EDI expected to change way health care takes care of business
Abstracts: Elevated cerebrospinal fluid pressures in patients with cryptococcal meningitis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
Abstracts: Emerging multiresistant organisms in the ICU: epidemiology, risk factors, surveillance, and prevention. The role of the infection control professional in the intensive care unit
Abstracts: Empire strikes back; New York's Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield teetered near bankruptcy before rebounding. Now it's the latest Blues plan aiming to go public
Abstracts: Empiric chemotherapy in patients with carcinoma of unknown primary site. HTLV-I-associated adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma presenting with nodular synovial masses
Abstracts: Empiric therapy for severe infections in adults. A decade of progress in cephalosporin use: summary. Pathophysiologic basic for the use of third-generation cephalosporins
Abstracts: Employee knowledge and attitudes about a work-site nonsmoking policy: rationale for further smoking restrictions
Abstracts: Employee lifting practices often wrought with mistakes. Proper hand tool use and selection reduce RSIs. Pipetting provides breeding ground for RSIs
Abstracts: Employee participation programs in the healthcare industry: are they unlawful under recent labor rulings? Sexual harassment at work: issues and answers for health care administrators
Abstracts: Employees' sources of AIDS information: the workplace as a promising setting. Allergic contact dermatitis from glutaraldehyde exposure
Abstracts: Employment-based health-insurance: implications of the sampling unit for policy analysis. The effect of SCHIP expansions on health insurance decisions by employers
Abstracts: Employment status and the frequency and causes of burn injuries in New England. Predictive criteria for burns from brief thermal exposures
Abstracts: Employment trends in hospitals, 1981-1993. Death and reputation: how consumers acted upon HCFA mortality information
Abstracts: Employment, unemployment, and problem drinking. The demand for alcohol: the differential response to price. A note on 'Economic conditions and alcohol problems.'
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