291 participating. Investigative tactics include offering arrested patients the opportunity to serve as confidential informants, covertly interviewing physicians’ current or former employees, and scheduling appointments with physicians to seek prescriptions for opioids, often secretly recording office visits. Successfully responding to investigations requires physicians to demonstrate proactive...

This study shows that faecal diversion by ileostomy or colostomy results in an improvement in the patient's general health which is substantiated by the haematological and biochemical findings. However, in the bowel distal to the diversion there is always histological evidence of mucosal and transmural disease and complications such as fistulae may still occur. In only two patients (7%) was res...

Currently, most of the incident management (IM) teams depend on paper maps and information sheets when traffic diversion is warranted in the presence of a major accident. These paper maps are not only difficult to use in the presence of an emergency situation, they are also difficult to maintain to ensure up-to-date information. A customized computer based system that takes advantage of Geograp...

Patients with ileal continent urinary diversion may present some awkward challenges to internists which have a considerable role in their long-term management. The potential metabolic complications result from both unphysiological exposure of the ileum to urine and decrease in absorbitive bowel capacity. Moreover, a variety of histopathomorphosic changes have been reported in ileal segment beca...

Baseline data from a study of jail diversion services and in-jail behavioral health services were used to examine the differences in clients served by these two models of responding to people with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problems in the criminal justice system. Clients of the diversion service had more acute psychiatric symptoms and were more likely to have a diagnosis of...

Preventing diversion and abuse of prescription controlled substances while ensuring their availability for legitimate medical use is an important public health goal in the United States. In one approach to preventing and identifying drug diversion, 17 states have implemented prescription monitoring programs (PMPs) to monitor the prescribing of certain controlled substances. While PMPs are not i...

Floating objects designed to divert woody debris—known as debris diversion devices—can protect hydrokinetic turbines deployed in rivers; they also change the hydrodynamic conditions of a river, at least locally. Modifications associated with velocity adjustments in both magnitude and direction would be expected. Thus, one could assume that extra macro-turbulent levels would be found immediately...

Using a direct estimate of income diversion for 156 firms from 1999 through 2004, we show that an increase in tax enforcement following the election of Vladimir Putin in 2000 is associated with a decrease in the appropriation of private rents by insiders in those firms investigated for tax evasion. We also find evidence consistent with a simultaneous spillover effect: the largest non-government...