Are state laws, regulatory practices, and allocation of public resources for enforcement reflected in perceptions by bar owners/managers that they will be cited or sued if they fail to exercise care? Among policies, which ones have the greatest impact on risk perceptions and, in turn, on such behaviors? We used data on laws, law enforcement, and regulations in the same areas as the bars to dete...

There is a rising incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus. About 50% of people with diabetes mellitus are unaware of their condition. Approximately 25% of all patients with diabetes undergoing surgery are undiagnosed on admission to hospital. Patients with diabetes have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. Patients with diabetes have a higher perioperative risk. They are more likely b...

headache symptoms compared with patients administered blood patch, and should have been excluded from this analysis, in our opinion. Indeed, these women could be considered ‘treatment successes’, since they received analgesia sufficient to be able to continue childcare at home, headache-free at one week, without exposure to the risks of epidural blood patch. It follows that a similar proportion...

Solutions of KCN in 0.1 mol/liter NaOH, stored for six months at 4 degrees C, were unchanged as determined by silver titration and color development with pyridine-pyrazalone reagent. At room temperature the cyanide concentration of such solutions decreased by 0.079% per day (half life = 880 days) and the extent of color development changed in direct proportion to the change in silver titer. Rub...

OBJECTIVES To determine what recommendations are given to patients or parents of patients with tympanostomy tubes regarding water exposure and to elucidate any recommendation differences between primary care and specialty care physicians. DESIGN Clinical survey. SETTING General community in the Pacific Northwest, including Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. PARTICIPANTS Physician surveys (N =...

Introduction / objectives CCLIN Sud-Est offers a programme of innovative actions supporting the implementation of standard precautions: StopRisk is a quality and security improvement initiative for healthcare establishments. The programme started in 2009 and will continue until 2012. It answers two priority themes defined by the national programme of nosocomial infection prevention 2009/2013: p...

Sometimes a study will have multiple trial types where it might be expected that the BOLD signal will increase linearly, quadratically or with some other trend over trial types. For example, there were 3 tasks with increasing difficulty, you might expect the BOLD signal to increase linearly. One approach to studying this linear trend is to first model each trial type separately and then use a c...

The introduction of the Internet to the business world has changed many ways of doing business. Unfortunately, the Internet has also become an arena where individuals are constantly at risk for computer viruses, spyware/adware infection, and malicious attacks designed to misuse or appropriate corporate assets. The wide-spread publicity of both cyber-attacks and ways to combat these problems, pu...

Ribavirin is used in the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in high-risk patients, including patients who have undergone hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, to reduce mortality from RSV pneumonia. It is classified as a hazardous drug with potential for carcinogenicity and teratogenicity. Very few recent studies have examined the risk of exposure, and recommendations for exposur...

In order to take care of the many inquiries constantly received on this subject, the Pan Ameritan Sanitary Bureau has prepared this brief account with the hope that the suggestions offered may prove of practica1 value to persons contemplating extended trips or temporary residence in the tropics. The tropics present a great variety of health problems, the complexity of which is enhanced by varia...