Statistics on Physicians, 1950-63

Physicians and knowledge translation of statistics: Mind the gap.

Trends in mortality among California physicians after giving up smoking: 1950-79.

A study was conducted to assess how lung cancer and other mortality trends among California physicians had been influenced by the high proportion who had given up smoking since 1950. Several sample surveys indicated that the proportion of California physicians who currently smoked cigarettes had declined dramatically from about 53% in 1950 to about 10% in 1980. During the same period the propor...

Improving the psychiatric knowledge, skills, and attitudes of primary care physicians, 1950-2000: a review.

OBJECTIVE The authors reviewed the literature on mental health education for primary care physicians and made recommendations for the design of educational programs and research. METHOD They searched the MEDLINE and PsycLIT databases from 1950 to 2000 by using a variety of key words and subjects. RESULTS More than 400 articles were identified, ranging from empirical studies to philosophical...

Australian mortality statistics for rheumatoid arthritis 1950-81: analysis of death certificate data.

An analysis of mortality related to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Australia for the period 1950 to 1981 was undertaken based on information recorded in death certificates. These data include every death over a 32 year period where RA was considered to be the underlying cause. Death from RA was commonly reported (0.17% of all deaths). The mean age at death from RA in both sexes exceeded that of t...

Phenotyping. On reaching base camp (1950-1975).

The search for plasma lipoproteins began at the turn of the century. It was not until 1949 that a meeting of the Faraday Society celebrated the separation of the alpha and beta lipoproteins. At that moment, ultracentrifugists in Berkeley were already busily converting "alpha" to high density lipoprotein and "beta" to low density lipoprotein; the modern era of lipoproteins had begun. Over the su...