Calling All American Physician Leaders

Calling all leaders.

ing leaders to create a forum to address the enormous challenges that face the profession now, and will continue to do so over the next several years. Many in the profession have been addressing these challenges, typically within the confines of the organizations that employ them. There has been no focused forum where nurse leaders themselves have an intellectual space for dialogue and planning...

Health care reform--involving our physician leaders.

Engaging physician leaders for improved outcomes.

elivery of health care services to patients is facing extreme levels of change and challenge, ushered in not just by the Affordable Care Act, but also by demands from insurers, payers and employers for improved approaches. At Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, La., the goal of our quality improvement efforts is — as always — to improve patient care. But we also want to...

Calling All Agents, Where Are You?

We believe the next step in the application of agent technology to the Internet is the massive population of the Internet with software agents functioning in a wide range of capacities: information ltering, information brokering, commerce, negotiation, and so on. In such an environment, a means to eeectively locate relevant agents for relevant tasks is indispensable. In this paper, we examine i...

Tremor - American Family Physician

Postural tremor occurs when the affected body part maintains position against gravity (e.g., extending arms in front of body). Isometric tremor results from muscle contraction against stationary objects (e.g., squeezing the examiner’s fingers). Kinetic tremor, which occurs with voluntary movement, is either simple kinetic tremor or intention tremor. Simple kinetic tremor is associated with move...