UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
...yo Kita Shakai Hoken Hospital. The study involved interviews with the parents of 500 infants, toddlers and children at a well-infant clinic in Tokyo. It is customary in Japan for parents to bring infants and toddlers into their sleeping quarters typically a mattress on the floor (tatami) to nurse and fall asl...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...the University of Toronto, and colleagues analyzed interviews with 2,765 individuals to determine how specific communication styles impact patient response to information about physician financial incentives to limit ordering of expensive tests and procedures. Nearly half of the respondents had heard of this ty...Understanding how vulnerabilities may keep women in abusive relationships
...is model and the vulnerabilities that emerged from interviews with seven Black and twenty-one White women who suffered chronic abuse by male dating partners. "Rather than victim-blaming, studying women's vulnerabilities provides a theoretical basis for understanding why women stay in and perhaps re-enter abusi...Hospitals may now be more willing to partner up with former adversaries
... million beneficiaries. The researchers conducted interviews with 100 directors of quality management from a randomly selected cross-section of all acute care hospitals operating in 2001. More than ninety percent of the hospitals reported that QIOs had initiated specific interventions, most commonly providing...'Chemistry and Flavor of Hispanic Foods' one-day symposium, March 15
... Ohio. Mark T. Sampson *Investigator can conduct interviews in Spanish. ** Spanish-speaking translator available. For more details, call the contact person listed at the top of this release....Malt liquor beers, and the people who drink them, are different
...For this study, researchers conducted face-to-face interviews with 329 drinkers recruited from randomly selected alcohol outlets in south Los Angeles, gathering information on items that included socio-demographic characteristics, alcohol-use history, drinking patterns, and drinking context. "Based on previou...Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
...nducted 5 focus groups and 32 intensive one-on-one interviews with house staff, information technology leaders, pharmacy leaders, attending physicians, and nurses; shadowed house staff and nurses; and observed them using CPOE. Participants included house staff, nurses, and hospital leaders . The researchers fo...... the doctors and pharmacists, as well as performed interviews with the hospital's attending physicians, nurses, IT and pharmacy leaders, and administrators. As a result, they identified 22 discreet ways in which medication-errors were facilitated by the CPOE system they studied. The significance of their find...Current daily smoking may be associated with increased risk for suicidal thoughts and attempts
...s were interviewed in 1989 and completed follow-up interviews in 1992, 1994, and 1999 2001. At each assessment, they were asked about lifetime smoking history, whether they were current daily smokers or had been in the past, and psychiatric disorders. Nearly nine hundred people completed all three investigati...83rd General session & exhibition of the IADR
... on the meeting (blue), procedures for arranging interviews (blue), a guide to the releases (blue), who's who in the releases (blue), releases on selected abstracts (white), releases on the IADR Distinguished Scientist Awards (goldenrod), a release on Other Awards and Fellowships: the IADR Distingui...Dual testing better for monitoring new cases of HIV
...vidity showed only six. Information gathered from interviews with two of the five discrepant patients confirmed that these two were taking antiretroviral therapy, masking their old infection as new....Branding practices in rural India should be banned
...d families in lower socioeconomic groups. In-depth interviews with the parents of branded children and villagers revealed that all 28 children had been branded by a native healer in a nearby village. The people believed that the evil potion comes out through the branding sites, curing the disease. Most of the p...Study: Young adults can be motivated to eat fruits, veggies
...ars, Nitzke and her team conducted three rounds of interviews with more than 1,200 low-income young adults between the ages of 18 and 24. In between interviews, some study participants received phone calls and materials that were tailored to their readiness to make dietary changes. Others received a standard pa...Psychiatric disorders greatly underdiagnosed in hospital emergency departments
...sis phenomenon, the researchers conducted informal interviews with more than 50 emergency department physicians. The physicians cited lack of psychiatric expertise, a belief that many mental disorders are relatively unimportant threats to health, and the inability to provide continuity of care for their patient...Changing trends in herbal supplement use
...ic Health, and colleagues examined data from phone interviews conducted from 1998 through 2002 in order to determine which dietary supplements Americans were using. The 8,470 study participants were asked to identify all over-the-counter and prescription drugs, along with dietary supplements taken during the pr...UT Southwestern doctors track Oklahoma Alzheimer's patients via telemedicine
...Disease Research at UT Southwestern, also conducts interviews with patients' caregivers to assess the progression of memory loss or other neurological deficits. For people suffering from dementia or other memory disorders, shortening travel time for checkups is another positive outcome of telemedicine, Dr. Wein...HIV-infected parents report limiting physical contact with their children
...on, Santa Monica, Calif., and colleagues conducted interviews with 344 parents receiving health care for HIV in the U.S. Participants were asked how much they feared getting an infection from their children and how much they feared transmitting HIV to their child. They were then asked how much these fears led...Illness and medical bills cause half of all bankruptcies
...of the filers subsequently underwent more detailed interviews about their financial and medical circumstances. The researchers found that illness and medical bills contributed to at least 46.2%, and as many as 54.5% of all bankruptcy filings. Dr. David Himmelstein, the lead author of the study and an Associat...Sunlight reduces risk of lymph gland cancer
...ty of our study." The study was based on telephone interviews with more than 3,000 patients who were newly diagnosed as having malignant lymphoma, either non-Hodgkin's or Hodgkin's, between 1999 and 2002 in Sweden and Denmark, and just over 3,000 randomly chosen healthy members of the public. Participants were ...Good medicine, good economics: African-Americans need equal treatment for pain, SLU study finds
...rs used Workers' Compensation archives and patient interviews as sources of data. "As an insurance system that provides uniform coverage for workers injured in the course of their employment in the United States, Workers' Compensation should be equitable with regard to case management of persons with low back ...