If you discover an unconscious patient in your office, attend to the ABCs while you evaluate the patient's medical history and piece together the events leading up to the emergency. These actions will help you arrive at a diagnosis. Then as the emergency cart and team arrive, you will be able to provide good, safe care to stabilize the patient and get him or her to a medical facility.

OBJECTIVE - To describe clinical observations of marked improvement in ventricular dysfunction in a medical office environment under circumstances differing from those in study protocols and multicenter studies performed in hospital or with outpatient cohorts. METHODS - Eleven cardiac failure patients with marked ventricular dysfunction receiving treatment at a doctors office between 1994 and 1...

Background In the area of Electronic Contracting and Virtual Company Formation within Supply-Chains there has been little research or development work. During this paper we will outline the European Union sponsored project SUPPLYPOINT (ESPRIT 27007) which addresses the issues of panEuropean electronic trade links for business-to-business and business-to-public body electronic commerce. This wil...

Using measurements of Mg  609.78 and 624.94 Å lines from the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) on board SOHO, we seek to examine the variation of line width and line ratio in regions far off-limb at the Northern pole of the Sun. It is found that above ≈1150′′ the ratio of the two coronal Mg  resonance lines reduces to values that might be expected for a more radiatively dominant excitatio...

This research-in-progress investigates EHR adoption in small primary care practices. By surveying 19 small physician offices, the preliminary findings suggest that small practices who have adopted EHRs perceive substantial benefits in ensuring that patients benefit from the quality care. The findings also imply that more small practices need to be reached out and small practices physicians be a...

In 1897 Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, appointed Patrick Manson (1844-1922) Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office.' Manson's assumption of that post opened the last fifteen years of his already notable professional life. His primary charge as Medical Adviser was not, as is commonly thought, to advise on policy matters; Manson's main, ifsomewhat less exalted, responsib...

(Fam Med 2005;37(7):461-3.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Sweety Jain, MD, of the Sacred Heart Hospital Family Practice Residency in Allentown, Pa, discusses important items that should be discussed with residents and students when orienting them to office practice. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. I also encourag...

OBJECTIVE To assess medical students' interest in a career in pediatrics following their categorical pediatric clerkship. DESIGN Satisfaction questionnaire to 704 third-year clerks in 5 university medical schools following the pediatric clerkship. METHODS Analysis of the influence of the community office-based experience compared with the inpatient experience, and examination aspects of the...

Electronic commerce (EC) adoption in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries (DC) is confronted with different difficulties. These challenges emanate from the SME itself and from micro and macro forces. By developing an adoption and diffusion model, this research endeavors to investigate the depth of the EC phenomenon in SMEs in developing countries represented here by ...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to focus on manufacturing small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are simultaneously pursuing quality and environmental objectives. Specifically, the paper examines: the specific motivations and resources of SMEs that have chosen to pursue both priorities, the types of initiatives these SMEs have implemented, and whether pursuing both priorities is corre...