Two classes of plasmids in addition to the parent become apparent when plasmids that contain direct repeats of IS1. One class of plasmids has deleted sequences from the end of IS1 to nonrandom sites within the plasmid. The appearance of these plasmids in the population requires intact insA and insB ...

Descriptive information on inpatient charges for a sample of 151 individuals discharged from three Boston area medical rehabilitation facilities is presented in this article. The total charges for inpatient rehabilitation were nearly $3 million, and the mean charge was $19,568. Also presented are a description of how charges vary by ...

We examined the effectiveness of using diagnosis related groups (DRGs), Severity of Illness Index (SII), age and function at admission to predict inpatient charges for medical rehabilitation. Data from our sample of 199 indicate that DRGs alone explained approximately 12 per cent of the variation in charges for inpatient rehabilitation ...

Optimal rehabilitation of stroke disability depends on a detailed analysis of neurologic impairments, associated medical conditions, psychosocial status, activities of daily living, and environmental barriers. Such analysis will permit design of the most appropriate management program, aimed at minimizing disability, maximizing function, and returning the stroke patient to a gratifying ...

Four men who mined barytes in Scotland and who developed pneumoconiosis are described. Three developed progressive massive fibrosis, from which two died; and one developed a nodular simple pneumoconiosis after leaving the industry. The radiological and pathological features of the men's lungs were those of silicosis and high proportions of ...

The botanical composition of representative raw cottons from seven different growing regions was determined by manual removal and identification of all trash components greater than 50 micron in size. The number of gram negative bacteria (GNB) and the amount of endotoxin present in each of the separated raw cotton components ...

In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x-ray source. The new version has two primary advantages over the Ardran and Crooks design in that it is both simpler and ...

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination against the handicapped in any program receiving federal funds. With its implementing regulations, Section 504 may well apply to the selection of patients for medical treatments. This article examines patient selection for heart transplantation, in light of the Rehabilitation Act ...

On July 18, 1984, the President signed the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984. The law contains several provisions affecting medical facilities which are assisted under the Hill-Burton Program and which transfer ownership or control or cease to be used as medical facility. These provisions include authority to waive the Federal ...

Roosters and hens that had carried either light (less than 100 mites/chicken) or heavy (greater than or equal to 10,000 mites/chicken) populations of northern fowl mites (NFM), Ornithonyssus sylviarum (Canestrini and Fanzago), for five consecutive months were mated to determine if their F1 progeny would carry similar population levels of ...

Rehabilitation of the craniocerebral trauma patient is an increasing challenge worldwide. The return of these individuals to society requires the foresight to begin rehabilitation efforts as soon as the patient receives medical attention. This article reviews the spectrum of medical, physical, and social problems associated with craniocerebral trauma and provides ...

Recently physicians, the federal government, and medical specialty societies have shown increasing interest in manpower needs in medicine and in the medical specialties. Since 1976 the Joint Task Force on Pathology Manpower of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the College of American Pathologists, and the Association of Pathology Chairmen ...

This notice is intended to clarify, for purposes of certain Federal health programs, the distinction between designation of an area as a Health Manpower Shortage Area (HMSA) and designation of an area as a Medically Underserved Area (MUA). Although it is possible for an area to be designated as both ...

Gastrointestinal tract involvement in progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) is common. A 46-year-old woman with PSS and calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal hypomotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasias with evidence of widespread intestinal tract involvement is described in whom multiple colonic telangiectasias (angiodysplasias) were found on colonoscopy, a finding not previously reported to our ...

The common perception about the individual with quadriplegia (having a lesion at C5 and above) as a fragile, immobile, and medically unstable individual is in direct conflict with the concept of successful rehabilitation. Long hospitalizations, constant medical attention, and profound physical dependence often work against the efforts of those providing ...

When the shortage of qualified psychiatrists and other physicians in Ohio's mental institutions reached the critical point in 1975, a number of measures were implemented to upgrade medical manpower. Salaries were increased, and the leadership of the medical and psychiatric community was enlisted to help encourage physicians to enter public ...

The Royal Commission's report on the NHS criticised the lack of central manpower planning advice for the nursing profession as well as dwelling at some length on the difficulties that the hospital career structure poses medical manpower planners. The most damaging disadvantage of the DHSS's approach to the latter issue ...

Medical manpower projections indicate that by 1991 there will be one doctor to 500 population instead of the 1: 721 ratio in 1976. There are many variables; projections, while hazardous, are necessary for planning because of the long lead time. Productivity is equally important. There is no evidence that the ...

Experience at the Burke Rehabilitation Center indicates that a rehabilitation program established early and giving proper attention to both personal and medical aspects can make it possible for 80% of stroke victims to return home and to function with reasonable adequacy. Rehabilitation efforts should begin as soon as possible after ...

A supply projection model to estimate the number of veterinarians available through the year 2020 was developed. When projected available manpower was compared with the need for veterinary medical services, as estimated in a National Academy of Science study, a net shortage was indicated in each year between 1976 and ...

Some significant and important variations in the interpretation of data on medical manpower are documented. The need for careful assessment of such data and the special local conditions associated with them is stressed, particularly when regulations concerning the direction of medical manpower are being considered.

More flexible admission requirements have made it possible to admit students to the first year of a program leading to the B.Med.Sc. degree at the end of two years and to the M.D. degree in four years, saving one to three years by means of earlier entry following high school. ...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Medical College of Ohio, 2004.

The office of Vice President for Medical Affairs was created in 1969 and supervised the College of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the College of Pharmacy, the Medical Library, and the University Hospital. The name was changed to the present Vice President for Health Sciences in 1973. During the period ...

Some significant and important variations in the interpretation of data on medical manpower are documented. The need for careful assessment of such data and the special local conditions associated with them is stressed, particularly when regulations concerning the direction of medical manpower are being considered.

The story that follows attempts to chronicle the history of one state's involvement with the Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke Amendments of 1965, subsequently known as Regional Medical Programs. It is a history of an enterprise fraught with problems, but energized by the will, skill and imagination of scores of ...

AIMS: It is a generally shared opinion that rehabilitation is not (yet) 'fully person-centred' and that it should be more. For a certain number of authors, this deficit in person-centredness has originated from the important weight of a 'medical framework' within rehabilitation. In this paper, we will discuss this criticism ...