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The Concussion Restoration Care Center has used the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics version 4 Traumatic Brain Injury (ANAM4 TBI) battery in clinical assessment of concussion. The study's aim is to evaluate the prognostic utility of the ANAM4 TBI. In 165 concussed active duty personnel (all ultimately re…

Most research on adults with chronic conditions focuses on a single disease or condition, such as hypertension or diabetes, rather than on multiple chronic conditions (MCC). Our study's objective was to compare physician office visits by adults with MCC with visits by adults without MCC, by selected patient demographic…

We explored intraurban mobility of Tijuana, Mexico, injection drug users (IDUs). In 2005, 222 IDUs underwent behavioral surveys and infectious disease testing. Participants resided in 58 neighborhoods, but regularly injected in 30. From logistic regression, "mobile" IDUs (injecting ≥3 km from their residence) we…

Synchronous development of a second primary cancer in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma was reported in 2.73%-11% of the cases. Although the synchronous association between esophageal and renal cancer is very rare, an increasingly number of cases is reported in medical literature. This study's aim is to…

BACKGROUND: Primary neuromotor abnormalities are thought to be a manifestation of the brain pathology underlying the psychotic illness; however, their causes and consequences are poorly understood. The study's aim was to examine the prevalence and correlates of neuromotor abnormalities in a sample of neuroleptic-naive…

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) incidence rates are increasing worldwide. This study's objective was to estimate the occurrence of BCC in the Netherlands in terms of incidence and prevalence. Data on first primary carcinomas were retrieved from the Eindhoven Cancer Registry and extrapolated to the Dutch population. Extrapol…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The future of family medicine is closely tied to the strength of family medicine research. Physicians with fellowship training have been shown to be more productive researchers than those without fellowship training. This study's objectives are to (1) identify fellowship programs available to…

PURPOSES: This study's aim was to determine the predictive factors of the duration of first-attack acute urticaria in children. BASIC PROCEDURES: The sample included 1075 children admitted to the emergency department with first-attack acute urticaria. Variables comprising the clinical features and past histories of ch…

Many preventive healthcare procedures are widely recognized as cost-effective but have relatively low utilization rates in the US. Because preventive care is a present-period investment with a future-period expected financial return, enrollee turnover among private insurers lowers the expected return of this investment…

Three experiments tested whether the Stroop color-naming effect is a consequence of word recognition's being automatic or of the color word's capturing visual attention. In Experiment 1, a color bar was presented at fixation as the color carrier, with color and neutral words presented in locations above or below the co…

OBJECTIVE: The study's aim is to evaluate the role of Perineal Ultrasound (PU) in the outcome assessment for the TVT procedures and correlate PU findings to clinical outcomes in a subgroup of patients with postoperative voiding obstructive complaints. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From 2001 to 2005, 100 patients were evaluat…

Haitian immigrants represent one of the largest foreign-born groups in Florida. Limited information is available on the health care issues that they face. This study's objective was to identify and evaluate the sources of and barriers to health care coverage for the Haitian immigrant community of Miami-Dade County, Flo…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Traditional indices of continuity of care typically capture frequency of physician visits but lack information regarding how patients themselves perceive continuity of care. The present study's objectives were (1) to examine the meaning of continuity of care from the perspective of patients w…

Robins, Kellam, and others found robust evidence linking youthful aggression and deviance to later illicit drug use. Some investigators favor the interpretation that drug use is just one manifestation or complication of a more general problem behavior syndrome or conduct disorder. In this work, we test the complementar…

This study's objective was to determine the level of compliance with the New York City Smoke-Free Air Act. Three data sources were used: (1) a population-based telephone survey of 251 New York City restaurant owners/managers; (2) independent inspections of the 251 surveyed restaurants; and (3) complaint records from th…

OBJECTIVE: To conduct a preliminary investigation to determine if injuries sustained while playing professional rugby league have long term consequences for players after retirement from their playing careers. METHOD: Twenty eight retired players, who had competed in the professional Australian Rugby League competitio…

PURPOSE: To demonstrate how a middle-range theory was developed and tested through research that examined relationships between nurse-expressed empathy and two patient outcomes: patient-perceived empathy and patient distress. SIGNIFICANCE: Nurse-patient relationships are the basis for all nursing care and empathy is a…

Children with autism demonstrate "atypical" gaze or social "looking" and frequently manifest such sterotypies as eye pressing, hand flicking, and light gazing. This study's purpose was to evaluate autistic children for visual dysfunction that may be related to the manifested visual signs and symptoms. Thirty-four autis…

In the fall of 1989, all graduates of a 30-year-old medical college were surveyed by questionnaire concerning their motivations for their original selections of specialties, motivations for changing their specialties when such changes had occurred, and factors involved in their current choices of specialties. The 723 r…

Possibilities and limits of the method for timing an intracranial hemorrhage by means of the HbA/HbF erythrocyte ratio are investigated in six newborns. The effect of labeling HbF erythrocyte containing newborn blood by transfusion and exchange transfusion of HbA erythrocyte containing donor blood as well as "self-labe…