Abstracts: Comparing outcomes of care before and after implementation of the DRG-based prospective payment system. The effects of the DRG-based prospective payment system on quality of care for hospitalized Medicare patients: an introduction to the series
Abstracts: Prospective payment system and impairment at discharge: the 'quicker-and-sicker' story revisited. Studying the effects of the DRG-based prospective payment system on quality of care: design, sampling, and fieldwork
Abstracts: Quality of care before and after implementation of the DRG-based prospective payment system: a summary of effects
Abstracts: Measuring quality of care with explicit process criteria before and after implementation of the DRG-based prospective payment system. part 2
Abstracts: The prospective payment system and quality: no skeletons in the closet. Changes in quality of care for five diseases measured by implicit review, 1981 to 1986
Abstracts: Reviewing nonsurgical periodontal therapy. Maintaining periodontal treatment. Periodontal therapy: reviewing subgingival irrigations and future considerations
Abstracts: Obesity in the Pima Indians: its magnitude and relationship with diabetes. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and periodontal disease
Abstracts: Dutch cure for AIDS is discredited. Humbling of world's AIDS researchers. A disappointing decade of AIDS
Abstracts: Expression and characterization of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. Expression of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator corrects defective chloride channel regulation in cystic fibrosis airway epithelial cells
Abstracts: In vitro fertilization in unstimulated cycles: a clinical trial using hCG for timing of follicle aspiration. A preliminary report on oocyte donation extending reproductive potential to women over 40
Abstracts: The epidemiology and clinical aspects of the hemolytic uremic syndrome in Minnesota. Transmission of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 infection in Minnesota child day-care facilities
Abstracts: Predicting the appropriate use of carotid endarterectomy, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and coronary angiography. part 2
Abstracts: Treatment of hypertensive crisis. Pathogenesis of hypertension. Hypertensive crisis since FDR - a partial victory
Abstracts: A 3 1/2 year-old-boy with pharyngitis, fever, rash, and prominent cervical lymphadenopathy. A 51-year-old Ethiopian woman with myalgia, weight loss, and mediastinal lymphadenopathy
Abstracts: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a new look at management. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia: early diagnosis, prophylaxis, and treatment
Abstracts: Magnetic-resonance imaging used for determining fat distribution in obesity and diabetes. Effect of obesity on bioelectrical impedance
Abstracts: Energy metabolism of overweight women 1 mo and 1 y after an 8-wk slimming period. Increased muscle dynamic endurance associated with weight reduction on a very-low-calorie diet
Abstracts: Dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and amelioration of cardiovascular disease: possible mechanisms. Dietary canola oil: effect on the accumulation of eicosapentaenoic acid in the alkenylacyl fraction of human platelet ethanolamine phosphoglyceride
Abstracts: N-3 fatty acid effects on lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins at very low doses: results of a randomized controlled trial in hypertriglyceridemic subjects
Abstracts: Nutritional factors in bone health in elderly subjects: methodological and contextual problems. Calcium absorption from kale
Abstracts: Lithium treatment for cocaine abusers with bipolar spectrum disorders. Heterogeneity of clinical response during placebo treatment
Abstracts: Methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis. Two methods of assessment of methotrexate hepatotoxicity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Abstracts: A double blind, randomised, multicentre comparison of two doses of intravenous iloprost in the treatment of Raynaud's phenomenon secondary to connective tissue diseases
Abstracts: Effect of sulphasalazine and sulphapyridine on neutrophil superoxide production: role of cytosolic free calcium
Abstracts: Approaches to the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis: ganciclovir and foscarnet. Foscarnet therapy of cytomegalovirus retinitis in AIDS
Abstracts: Exacerbation of dideoxycytidine-induced neuropathy with dideoxyinosine. Clinical, virologic, and immunologic effects of combination therapy with ribavirin and isoprinosine in HIV-infected homosexual men
Abstracts: Antiviral agents with activity against human retroviruses. Sulfated polysaccharides as potent inhibitors of HIV-induced syncytium formation: a new strategy towards AIDS chemotherapy
Abstracts: Antibody to human T-lymphotropic virus type I/II (HTLV-I/II) among male inmates entering Maryland prisons. Incidence and risk factors for human T-lymphotropic virus type II seroconversion among injecting drug users in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A
Abstracts: A randomized, controlled trial of methylprednisolone or naloxone in the treatment of acute spinal-cord injury
Abstracts: Maintenance treatment with recombinant interferon alfa-2b in patients with multiple myeloma responding to conventional induction chemotherapy
Abstracts: Activating mutations of the stimulatory G protein in the McCune-Albright syndrome. Mutation in the gene encoding the stimulatory G protein of adenylate cyclase in Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
Abstracts: Destiny rides again as twins overeat. The body-mass index of twins who have been reared apart. The response to long-term overfeeding in identical twins
Abstracts: Relation of serum lipoprotein(a) concentration and apolipoprotein(a) phenotype to coronary heart disease in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia
Abstracts: A 21-year-old man with recurrent left-sided pneumonia. Increasing dyspnea and cough in a 77-year-old man with interstitial lung disease
Abstracts: Prognostic implications of echocardiographically determined left ventricular mass in the Framingham Heart Study
Abstracts: Maternal outcome after fetal surgery: a review of the first 17 human cases. Successful repair in utero of a fetal diaphragmatic hernia after removal of herniated viscera from the left thorax
Abstracts: Zidovudine for early human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection: who, when, and how? Corticosteroids prevent early deterioration in patients with moderately severe pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Abstracts: The safety and efficacy of zidovudine (AZT) in the treatment of subjects with mildly symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) infection. part 2
Abstracts: Effects of fats high in stearic acid on lipid and lipoprotein concentrations in men. Treatment of hypercholesterolemia in the elderly
Abstracts: Introduction: aztreonam: continued efficacy and safety. Aztreonam activity, pharmacology, and clinical uses. Aztreonam in the prevention and treatment of infection in neutropenic cancer patients
Abstracts: Elevation of salivary antimicrobial proteins following HIV-infection. Sjogren's syndrome: oral and dental considerations
Abstracts: Effect of knowledge of human immunodeficiency virus infection status on sexual activity among homosexual men. Marital status in relation to Kaposi's sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and anal cancer in pre-AIDS era
Abstracts: The geographic and ethnic diversity of AIDS incidence trends in homosexual/bisexual men in the United States. Impact of the 1987 revision of the case definition of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the United States
Abstracts: Safety and immunogenicity of multiple conventional immunizations administered during early HIV infection. The current distribution of CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts among adults in the United States with human immunodeficiency virus infections: estimates based on the experience of the U.S. Army
Abstracts: Cardiovascular risk factors in confirmed prediabetic individuals: does the clock for coronary heart disease start ticking before the onset of clinical diabetes? part 2
Abstracts: Polypharmacy among patients attending an AIDS clinic: utilization of prescribed, unorthodox, and investigational treatments
Abstracts: Association of shower use with Legionnaire's disease: possible role of amoebae. Role of air sampling in investigation of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease associated with exposure to aerosols from an evaporative condenser
Abstracts: Predictors of functional recovery one year following hospital discharge for hip fracture: a prospective study
Abstracts: The relationship between prior knowledge and face recognition memory in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. Prior knowledge and face recognition in a community-based sample of healthy, very old adults
Abstracts: Absence of need for amniocentesis in patients with elevated levels of maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein and normal ultrasonographic examinations. part 2
Abstracts: Persistent ectopic pregnancy following laparoscopic linear salpingostomy. Unsuspected leiomyosarcoma: treatment with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue
Abstracts: Safety and efficacy of oral flecainide therapy in patients with atrioventricular re-entrant tachycardia. Inefficacy and proarrhythmic effects of flecainide and encainide for sustained ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation
Abstracts: Effects of Medicaid eligibility expansion on prenatal care and pregnancy outcome in Tennessee. part 2 Corticosteroid use and peptic ulcer disease: role of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Abstracts: Risk factors for acute non-A, non-B hepatitis in the United States and association with hepatitis C virus infection. part 2
Abstracts: Epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory findings of human ehrlichiosis in the United States, 1988. Serologic diagnosis of human ehrlichiosis using two Ehrlichia canis isolates
Abstracts: Can't find one AIDS vaccine? Try for a few. This month brings new information about AIDS to profession, public
Abstracts: Dealing with chiropractors: gaining a sense of reality when presenting credentials. The chickens are coming home to roost
Abstracts: 'Segment' is new buzzword for PC sellers. PC clones are translating into profits for growing number of European firms
Abstracts: Seventh AIDS conference: mostly ''fine tuning''. AIDS conference in Berlin offers plenty of hidden gems. Will AIDS conference migrate?
Abstracts: Study will break new ground. AIDS epidemiology: another early case identified. Doubts over ''wonder drug''
Abstracts: US West to offer names of callers via new service. Cellular phone alliance is set in U.S., Canada. MCI unveils plan to give small business long-distance service used by big firms
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: 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: Risk factors for rapid progression from hairy leukoplakia to AIDS: a nested case-control study. Efficacy of desciclovir in the treatment of Epstein-Barr virus infection in oral hairy leukoplakia
Abstracts: AIDS mortality among Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics in New York City, 1981-1987. National AIDS incidence trends and the extent of zidovudine therapy in selected demographic and transmission groups
Abstracts: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug-associated azotemia in the very old. part 2 High-intensity strength training in nonagenarians: effects on skeletal muscle
Abstracts: Treatment of photoaged skin with topical tretinoin increases epidermal-dermal anchoring fibrils: a preliminary report
Abstracts: Urinary leukocyte esterase screening test for asymptomatic chlamydial and gonococcal infections in males. Improved pregnancy outcome following successful treatment of chlamydial infection
Abstracts: Malaria: The path of drug resistance. Chloroquine resistance not linked to mdr-like genes in a Plasmodium falciparum cross
Abstracts: Phospholipid binding by a synaptic vesicle protein homologous to the regulatory region of protein kinase C. Cellubrevin is a ubiquitous tetanus-toxin substrate homologous to a putative synaptic vesicle fusion protein
Abstracts: Fads in the treatment of low back pain. A controlled trial of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and exercise for chronic low back pain
Abstracts: Changes in risk factors and the decline in mortality from cardiovascular disease. Number of pregnancies and the subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease
Abstracts: Allopurinol-induced orotidinuria: a test for mutations at the ornithine carbamoyltransferase locus in women. Hyperammonemia in women with a mutation at the ornithine carbamoyltransferase locus
Abstracts: Ten-year mortality from cardiovascular disease in relation to cholesterol level among men with and without preexisting cardiovascular disease
Abstracts: Proposed statement of standard accounting practice - exposure draft 50: consolidated accounts (issued June 1990)
Abstracts: The role of timing in high-dose cytosine arabinoside intensification and of maintenance therapy in the treatment of children with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia
Abstracts: Association between DNA ploidy pattern and cellular atypia in colorectal carcinomas: a new clinical application for DNA flow cytometric study?
Abstracts: Gerontology as oncology: research on aging as the key to the understanding of cancer. Determinants of cancer stage: a population-based study of elderly New Mexicans
Abstracts: Ten-year results of breast-conserving surgery and definitive irradiation for intraductal carcinoma (ductal carcinoma in situ) of the breast
Abstracts: Activity and mortality among aged persons over an eight-year period. Predictors of health status in middle-aged and older Mexican Americans
Abstracts: Clinical aspects of 100 patients with Kawasaki disease. Antiendothelial cell antibodies detected by a cellular based ELISA in Kawasaki disease (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay)
Abstracts: Measurement of the chemotactic complement fragment C5a in rheumatoid synovial fluids by radioimmunoassay: role of C5a in the acute inflammatory phase
Abstracts: Ultrasonic catheters give cardiologists boost in observing internal blood vessels. Cardiologists say cut out fat when they're young, but (usually) don't cut in advanced age
Abstracts: Transmission of HIV-1 infections from mothers to infants in Haiti: impact on childhood mortality and malnutrition
Abstracts: Does age affect outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation? Influence of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Prior to Defibrillation in Patients With Out-of-Hospital Ventricular Fibrillation
Abstracts: Ten-year follow-up of behavioral, family-based treatment for obese children. Growth in obese children treated for obesity
Abstracts: High levels of unintegrated HIV-1 DNA in brain tissue of AIDS dementia patients. HIV-1 tropism for mononuclear phagocytes can be determined by regions of gp120 outside the CD4-binding domain
Abstracts: Analysis of a human DNA excision repair gene involved in group A xeroderma pigmentosum and containing a zinc-finger domain
Abstracts: Regression of coronary artery disease as a result of intensive lipid-lowering therapy in men with high levels of apolipoprotein B
Abstracts: Screening of selected male blood donors for p24 antigen of human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Long-term mortality after transfusion-associated non-A, non-B hepatitis
Abstracts: Intermittent cyclophosphamide for the treatment of autoimmune thrombocytopenia in systemic lupus erythematosus
Abstracts: Hydroxychloroquine in decompensated, treatment-refractory noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: a new job for an old drug?
Abstracts: A simple procedure for general screening for functional disability in elderly patients. Why screen for functional disability in elderly persons?
Abstracts: Dideoxycytidine: current clinical experience and future prospects: a summary. Dideoxycytidine (ddC): a potent antiretroviral agent for human immunodeficiency virus infection: an introduction
Abstracts: Pharmacodynamics of 2',3'-dideoxycytidine: an inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus. Safety and tolerance of dideoxycytidine as a single agent: results of early-phase studies in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or advanced AIDS-related complex
Abstracts: Alternating and intermittent regimens of zidovudine (3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine) and dideoxycytidine (2',3'-dideoxycytidine) in the treatment of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related complex
Abstracts: Treatment of AIDS with combinations of antiretroviral agents. Alternating and intermittent regimens of zidovudine (3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine) and dideoxycytidine (2',3'-dideoxycytidine) in the treatment of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related complex
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
Abstracts: A randomized, double-blind trial of prostaglandin E2 gel for cervical ripening and meta-analysis. A prospective randomized study of saline solution amnioinfusion
Abstracts: Contrasting effects of testosterone and stanozolol on serum lipoprotein levels. Cardiovascular response to maximal cycle exercise during pregnancy and at two and seven months post partum
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