As health care delivery continues to grow in complexity and uncertainty, academic practitioners must integrate clinical disciplines with research, financial management, marketing, law and many other areas. Jill Ridky, Ph.D., and Tom Bennett, M.B.A., D.Div., M.S.W., write about survey results on the current use and need for practice management training ...

The present study attempted to assess the importance of five factors theorized to play a central role in managing countertransference: Self-integration, Anxiety Management, Conceptualizing Skills, Empathy, and Self-insight. 33 experts provided ratings of 50 characteristics of therapists as to the importance of each in managing countertransference. Analysis indicated that each ...

Nutritional management of medical and surgical animal patients to provide better total health care is not a new concept, but one that has gained credibility in veterinary medicine in the 1980s. Therapeutic dietary management is an alteration of diets intended to provide optimal health in pets by restricting, moderating, or ...

IMEX is a prototype Integrated Malaria EXpert system whose practical objectives are to act as a tool to assist medical personnel in the diagnosis and treatment of malaria, to improve management of malaria patients and to formalize and document knowledge on malaria. This paper describes some of its important features, ...

Medical and other professionals know what good practice is. It is in accordance with ideal procedures and standards of one's own practice. As actors we assess our practices from inside. If questions of quality assessment or quality assurance are raised at all, they are to be raised and answered by ...

Dietitians have been challenged to learn the skills of creative thinking in order to become proficient managers in a rapidly changing world. We reviewed the literature to determine the prerequisites of creative thinking and assessed the management and administrative dietetics curriculum for our dietetic internship to determine whether those prerequisites ...

Duke University Medical Center conducted a strategic planning process focused on information management needs beginning in 1983 and ending in 1985. That effort concluded that the institution was ready to establish an Integrated Academic Information Management System (IAIMS). A model was proposed in which information management was to be achieved ...

The National Library of Medicine awards grants for the planning and development of integrated Academic Information Management Systems (IAIMS). The goal is to create mechanisms in health institutions and organizations to more effectively manage the knowledge of medicine. A background and description of the IAIMS Grant Program is given with ...

Pharmacologic agents have been traditionally used in dentistry for the management of patient fears. Results have been mixed, depending on the drugs and techniques used, the skill and training of the operator, and the degree of anxiety of the patient. Pharmacology alone may be unsuitable and even hazardous for some ...

With the National Library of Medicine serving as the catalyst, the University of Maryland at Baltimore, Campus for the Professions, entered into a major initiative to integrate information management systems in support of the campus missions of education, research, and clinical care. Strategic planning initiated the integration process and continues ...

This report describes a new integrated rigid cystoscope which has been designed for diagnostic and therapeutic cystoscopy under local anaesthesia. The small external diameter (17.5 F) and large instrument channel permit maximum irrigant flow and operating potential whilst causing minimum discomfort to the patient. We believe this instrument to be ...

The previous discussions obviously lend credibility to the construct of concurrent integrated UR-QR management. DRG prospective payment obviously accelerates the need for coordinated interdepartmental UR-QR management so that managers are in positions to control the units of service. The value of concurrent integrated UR-QA management is patent in supporting the ...

With support from the National Library of Medicine, the University of Maryland at Baltimore is creating an Integrated Academic Information Management System (IAIMS) that will serve as a prototype for academic health centers. A campus-wide undertaking, the IAIMS initiative at Maryland is characterized by its functional comprehensiveness and its planning ...

The growing reliance of biomedical investigations on computer software in almost all facets of their work places considerable emphasis on the need for the integrated management of the software. In order to efficiently develop, distribute, and maintain the software, tools are required which not only automate these tasks but also, ...

Semantics and history of psychosomatic medicine are not popular topics nowadays, if they ever were; yet both of them constitute indispensable facets of any discipline that lays claim to a separate identity, as psychosomatics does. The latter, being an inchoate and inherently complex field of study, is especially in need ...

While sexual medicine is increasingly being seen as an integral part of medical courses, it is difficult to introduce to and integrate into existing curricula. This paper presents an hierarchical model for design of sexual medicine courses which takes into account factors such as environmental constraints (time, money, staff), objectives, ...

Interviews with 32 large-scale dairy operators in Tulare County, Calif, indicated that as large-scale dairies have replaced smaller dairies, the operator's reliance on the veterinarian as a primary source of advice about a wide range of dairy health management issues has declined. Large dairies require an integrated approach to herd ...

In different medical systems, notions of person, as patient and as healer, vary widely. An analysis of the talk of a practitioner of internal medicine in the U.S.A. reveals an understanding of patients as syndromes. The work of medicine is 'physiological integrity', distinct from personal and interpersonal integrity. It is ...

What was once a great romance between law and psychiatry has ended in disenchantment on both sides. Legal rulings during the 1950s intended to increase the psychiatric presence in the courtroom have been repudiated, and there is now a mood to abolish the traditional insanity defense. Abolitionists charge that the ...

In order to provide "horizontal" integration of related clinical subjects, a combined teaching course in community medicine, general practice, geriatric medicine and mental health has been devised. The course lasts 12 weeks and is divided between joint teaching of topics of common interest and clinical clerkships in individual disciplines. A ...

In the classical teaching system, the different disciplines required for the education of physicians are given separately, not only in location but also in time. The latter is very obvious, as sometimes years separate the teaching of basic sciences and clinical disciplines. Integration of the different "building blocks" is, for ...

Behavioral medicine is the practice of a comprehensive approach to the patient. It integrates the biological, personal, and environmental-social dimensions in evaluation and treatment. An operational method of implementing this practice is the Patient Evaluation Grid (PEG), in which three dimensions of the patient (biological, personal, environmental) are intersected by ...

The resurgence of the holistic health movement in the 1970s can be in part attributed to increasing consumer dissatisfaction with the present system of medical care delivery. This article traces the rise and decline of modern medicine by analyzing the assumption of hegemony by scientific medicine and its practitioners. Then ...

Detailed knowledge of the normal anatomy of the urethra and adjacent structures is essential to an understanding of the normal radiologic landmarks on urethrography, and is prerequisite to the radiologic interpretation of the diseased urethra. The nature of fibrosis in the urethra must also be clearly understood, since radiologic interpretation ...

The Oriental approach to life can contribute to the development of psychosomatic medicine in three major ways, revolving around its realization of the illusion of mind-body dualism, its development of practical somatopsychic techniques for learning self-control, and its orientation towards realizing our true nature. In our department we are currently ...

Defensive medicine--the use of diagnostic and end-treatment measures explicitly for the purposes of averting malpractice suits--is frequently cited as one of the least desirable effects of the current rise in medical litigation. Many physicians and policy-makers claim that defensive medicine is responsible not only for the increasing costs of health ...

This paper is an attempt to place the Flexner Report of 1910 in the larger perspective of dynamics of American society in the years surrounding the turn of the 19th century. It looks at medicine as an integral part of society affected by the contradictions affecting the larger society. The ...

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Georgia, 2005.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Georgia, 2004.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Georgia, 2004.

This key provides guidance for the identification of ants commonly encountered in Californian homes. You can either work through the illustrated step-by-step key, or if you know the species, click directly onto the ant to lead you to further information. Each species entry gives you common and scientific name, images, ...

During the twentieth century there have been great advances in medicine in the area of science and technology. At the same time, there has been a trend back to a more natural, humanistic approach to counteract patients' feelings of alienation. Holistic medicine approaches the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects ...

The Center for Integrative Medicine (CFIM) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (USA) is involved with a broad range of research activities evaluating the safety and effectiveness of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) and models of integrative care combining CAM with mainstream medicine. The Center maintains two bibliographic databases on ...

The University of California's Integrated Pest Management programme's weed photo gallery includes many, but not all, weed species commonly found in California. It provides photographs and descriptions of more than 100 weed species, accessible through alphabetical listings arranged by common name, scientific names and family names. An identification key is ...

The aim of this article, the third in this series on the Seven Steps to Patient Safety (National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) 2004), is to explore how risk management can be integrated into the culture of a healthcare organisation and the working practices of clinicians, managers and their immediate teams.

Two crystalline components isolated from the defensive secretion of the glomerid millipede, Glomeris marginata, are identified as 1- methyl- 2- ethyl- 4( 3H)- quinazolinone and 1,2- dimethyl- 4( 3H)- quinazolinone. These heterocyclic compounds bear a close structural resemblance to arborine, the chief alkaloid of the Indian medicinal plant, Glycomis arborea ...