This paper reports on a videotape study of particular aspects of the two-part interview developed by Selvini-Palazzoli et al. (8, 9). The first segment is a "search for information," the second part the application of an intervention based on the information gathered in the first part. The study focused on ...

Neighbors are an informal resource who may act individually to provide socioemotional support to each other as well as collectively to ameliorate problems in their residential environment. To explore when neighbors are likely to interact and provide aid and emotional support for each other, 702 residents living in a neighborhood ...

The problems encountered by the surgeon, the radiologist, and the pathologist in the interpretation of radiopaque fragments within tissue are illustrated by a case report. Deformation, particularly flattening, of round pellets should be recognized as a gross radiographic pitfall. The potential and actual external and internal tissue damage resulting from ...

Information about aids and services for disabled people has two primary target audiences - the administrators and the disabled recipients - and their needs and problems are different. The administrators experience problems with the diversity and poor quality of information available to them, making it difficult for them to keep ...

This article is intended to sensitize therapists to the particular concerns of the gay bereaved. Clinicians need to be aware of and accept homosexual and lesbian lifestyles as well as knowledgeable about grieving procedures before engaging in a therapeutic relationship with gay bereaved individuals. If the therapist has minimal information ...

Clients referred by courts and allied agencies present therapists with problems of confidentiality, allegiance, and client deception. These problems may be alleviated by informing clients of limits on confidentiality and by client participation in defining the relationship between therapist and referral institution. Establishment of a treatment-information dichotomy is seen as ...

An important responsibility of a physical therapist is to create a communicative atmosphere with his patients so that information can be readily offered and received. The interview is an effective method for gathering information, establishing rapport, and encouraging constructive planning, all of which are important in creating an atmosphere that ...

Four prototype patient package inserts (PPIs) for erythromycin were tested in an analog study using 325 individuals drawn from a college community. There was no difference in the total amount of knowledge communicated by the different PPIs, but results for individual test items suggest (1) that more explicit information may ...

For people unfamiliar with hemophilia, the disease can seem very frightening. Its past reputation as a fatal, uncontrollable disease is no longer tenable. With the use of modern-day transfusion therapy, uncontrollable bleeding in hemophilia infrequently causes death. Quick and simple treatment is readily available. The problems today are in educating ...

The purpose of this study was to develop a technique for quantifying connected speech samples of aphasic individuals as they recover from the moderate to the mild range of severity. Verbal picture descriptions elicited from mild and moderate aphasic speakers were audio-recorded and compared to those elicited from normal adult ...

Through the use of learned symbols, a pigeon accurately communicated information about hidden colors to another pigeon. Each verbal exchange was initiated with a spontaneous request for information. The two pigeons engaged in a sustained and natural conversation without human intervention.

A clinical chemistry laboratory information system based on MUMPS is described, together with the problems associated with its implementation. Tabular displays and cusum charts as well as cumulative records are available on a real-time basis. Data capture is by both on-line and off-line techniques. After 18 months' live running the ...

There is a bias in secondary literature sources, such as MEDLINE, that results in an information gap on enteral hyperalimentation. This gap accentuates the problem of locating papers on enteral hyperalimentation with medical foods, a problem shared by physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, and information scientists. A complete information package on enteral ...

Today's busy practitioner often has little time to fully review his patient's records and thereby runs the risk of not seeing all the previously collected information. The problem-oriented system of patient record keeping provides one systematic logical method for recording data with previous information easily obtained to allow the practitioner ...

1. Communication among scientists of similar professional interest is an often neglected but critical factor in medical research and practice. 2. Dissemination of information is vital for keeping abreast of one's field, for planning studies and treatment regimens, and for avoiding unnecessary research. 3. Today's communication channels by printed material, ...

The schizophrenic patient is often quite incommunicative about his current or past interpersonal relationships. Many workers feel that interviews with the schizophrenic's parents are also unreliable means of getting direct verbal information. Such pessimism is based on their experience that parents of schizophrenics often distort or delete information because of ...

The need for patient package inserts (PPIs) is discussed in terms of the "consumers' right-to-know" and "patient health education" themes, as well as the premise that verbal means of communication are often inadequate. Some of the reasons for the frequent failure of verbal messages are reviewed by detailing the five ...

Random chemical reactions in the Earth's primitive hydrosphere could have generated no more than 200 bits of information, whereas the first Darwinian organism must have encoded about a million bits, and therefore could not have arisen by chance. This information gap is bridged by separating reproduction from organism, and postulating ...

A general discussion of the history and problems associated with the collection of information and the development of a database in a regulatory agency is presented. The proceedings of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for obtaining chemical formulation information for specified consumer products is discussed. Guidelines for database administrators ...

The authors sum up the central issue of ethics in the conduct of controlled clinical trials in these two paradoxes: 'first, it is unethical to use treatment the efficacy of which has not been examined scientifically; second, it is also unethical to examine the efficacy of treatment scientifically.' In this ...

A summary of considerations for design and application of multichannel biotelemetry systems is given. The advantages but also the problems of wired, wireless, combined and storage telemetry are discussed in connection with its application. Modulation and multiplexing techniques are described extensively; however, this review focuses not only on the transmission ...

The relation between eigenvalues of the kernel covariance matrix in inversion problems and the number of pieces of information that can be extracted is discussed. It is shown that an example given by Wang and Goulard, which was claimed to show that the eigenvalue analysis underestimated the information content, was ...

The Elephant Help Project focuses on the problems of Thai Elephants in Southern Thailand, the problems they face today, and raises funds primarily from the tourism industry to help. The site presents information on this conservation nongovernmental organization and its activities related to the habitat and health of Thailand's elephants.

The Society for AIDS Care is a community-based, non-government organization dedicated to providing professional medical care and support to people with HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong. The site contains general information about AIDS and its detection. Has information about the various services provided by the organization, including the first community day ...

AID-Jharkhand, a subsidiary of the national level NGO Alternative For India Development, emerged as an umbrella organization for several small community organizations. AID involves people’s participation in their development process, seeks to enable the more disadvantaged to analyse and deal with their problems themselves, and enables them to gain access ...

The Embarrasing Problems website provides patient information on a range of personal health issues such as sexual health, skin problems etc. There is also a biweekly column, called 'A Problem Shared', in which common 'embarrassing' questions are answered. The information is authored by Dr Margaret Stearn FRCP, who wrote the ...

The Forest Conservation Programme is the World Wide Fund for Nature's (WWF) forestry campaign. The website includes details of the problems facing forests including illegal logging, forest fires, and climate change; and information on the WWF's response to these problems. The site provides information on how to protect, manage, and ...

Founded in 1944 the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) assists in the conservation of private forestland and encouraging sustainable forestry. NEFF also owns over 22,000 acres throughout New England. Information is provided on the organisation together with a history of forestry, as well as reports on their current land conservation ...

The idea of enabling user interaction in an Internet-based quality of life application comes with intention to solve problems common for conventional ways of communicating with patients. Here we are presenting results of the feasibility study, which regarded design and introduction of new forms to acquire patient information.

A patient information booklet on dizziness and balance problems, published by the Brain and Spine Foundation, a UK based charity. Sections include information on how the balance system works, the causes and symptoms of dizziness, tests and treatments. A glossary of terms is provided, along with further sources of help. ...

View of pine forest; For more information about this collection, see the finding aid at http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/findingaids/pdf/ms_1127.pdf