Balkan Affairs. Recent Titles Reviewed

What’s in a Title? A Descriptive Study of Article Titles in Peer-Reviewed Medical Journals

Objectives. Titles of journal articles should effectively convey to readers, editors, and reviewers basic topics of the articles and, within topics, specific aspects. To increase our understanding of the current practices of authors and editors in the use of titles, we analyzed article titles from a sample of general medical journals and queried editors in the United States and England. Design ...

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This is not about knights and dames, nor is it about jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington or Court Basie. Rather, it is about a most important issue in science, which is the difficult task of choosing titles for seminars, lectures, scientific papers, books and even the titles of the journals themselves. Today, we all have to compete for readers and listeners, and in the current ruthlessly com...

Recent opinions of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.

The text is provided of three Council opinions that were adopted by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association at its annual meeting in June 1986. "Referral of patients--disclosure of limitations" holds that, if a preferred provider organization or a health maintenance organization contract does not permit referral to a noncontracting specialist or facility when the physician b...

Recent trends in Veterans Affairs chronic condition spending.

The change in prevalence and total Veterans Affairs (VA) spending were estimated for 16 chronic condition categories between 2000 and 2008. The drivers of changes in spending also were examined. Chronic conditions were identified through diagnoses in encounter records, and treatment costs per patient were estimated using VA cost data and regression models. The estimated differences in total VA ...

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