Composting experiments of fish processing wastes and wood by-products were conducted in the Andean-Patagonian Region. Fish wastes were mixed with sawdust + wood shavings (3:l ratio by weight) with two replicates. Materials were mixed and placed in 220-liter PVC reactors. After 20 days, materials were remixed and reloaded in the reactors. Samples were taken at 20, 30, 40, 60, 80 and 100 day inte...

OBJECTIVES How to contain medical expenditures is a universal problem. The Japanese government has increased patient co-payments to control it. The purpose of this study is to clarify whether the increase in co-payments to 30 percent prevented patients with hypertension or diabetes mellitus from receiving necessary care in the Employee Health Insurance System. METHODS The subjects were 211 pa...

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book 97 1 percent perfect healthcare leadership s pinto report on medical errors. It is so usual with the printed books. However, many people someti...

T he March 16, 2003, edition of The New York Times Magazine’s cover reads, “Half of What Doctors Know Is Wrong.” Inside, the lead story, entitled “The Biggest Mistake of Their Lives,” chronicles the struggles of four survivors of medical errors. The article also makes a projection that in 2003, as many as 98,000 people in the United States would die as a result of medical errors (Burton 2003). ...

BACKGROUND Exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) affects up to 90% of all patients with asthma. Objective. This study evaluated the ability of levalbuterol hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) 90 mug (two actuations of 45 microg) administered via metered dose inhaler (MDI) to protect against EIB in mild-to-moderate asthmatics. METHODS This was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, two-way cross-ov...

A 15-item questionnaire was used to evaluate competency to consent to hospitalization in 30 adolescent psychiatric inpatients. For competency, 17 percent of the subjects met minimal clinical criteria, 30 percent met broad clinical criteria, and 37 percent satisfied legally oriented criteria. Only 22 percent of the adolescent subjects met combined clinical and legal criteria. When compared with ...

Low birth weight (LBW) is associated with a large number and variety of risk conditions during pregnancy. The number and types of risk conditions per pregnancy were determined in 1,864 white and 872 black mothers delivered at the University of Kansas Medical Center between 1975 and 1978. The incidence of LBW infants increased steadily among white and black mothers as the number of risk factors ...