Patient safety can be compromised by discontinuities in care. Studies suggest that discontinuity results from poor information transfer and faulty communication, which in turn may cause avoidable adverse events. Improving information transfer and communications among health care providers is an important patient safety practice and has been strongly recommended as a means to improve patient car...

Zheng, Huiyuan, and Hans-Rudolf Berthoud. Functional vagal input to gastric myenteric plexus as assessed by vagal stimulation-induced Fos expression. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 279: G73–G81, 2000.—Immunohistochemical detection of c-Fos expression was used to identify gastric myenteric plexus neurons that receive excitatory input from vagal efferent neurons activated by electrical s...

A compendium of thirty previously published open problems in computational geometry is presented. [SIGACT News, 32(3) Issue, 120 Sep. 2001, 63–72.] The computational geometry community has made many advances in the relatively short (quarter-century) of the field’s existence. Along the way researchers have engaged with a number of problems that have resisted solution. We gather here a list of op...

ity and on the receipt of infertility services from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) allow us to determine whether and how these phenomena have changed since they were last measured in 1988. Such trend analysis has implications for projecting future health care costs, particularly in an arena of changing insurance coverage and potential health care reform. It may also be relevan...