All 2700 children (under age 19) who had reparative cardiac surgery for one of seven congenital cardiac defects or coarctation of the aorta in the state of Oregon from 1958 through 1989. The year 1958 was marked by the initiation of cardiopulmonary bypass for cardiac surger~ carried out during the entry period in five Oregon hospitals, with 76 percent of operations performed at the Oregon Healt...

Analyses of survey results from a random sample of women bloggers (N = 298) show three motivations drive women to use social media – information, engagement, and recreation. The recreation motivation outweighs the other two motivations in predicting frequency of social media use. However, when differences between Facebook, Twitter, and other social media were considered, results show women blog...

In this article we introduce blogs, including their brief history, their current status, and motivations for blogging. We describe how we created a course blog in one online Health information management (HIM) baccalaureate course. We describe three pedagogical purposes (online discussion, digital drop box, and class project management tool) of the course blog. We report the results of our afte...

Forty-two million individuals work for small employers; 9 million are participating in an employment-based retirement plan, while 33 million are not participating in a plan. This Issue Brief examines the barriers that prevent small employers from sponsoring a retirement plan, their level of knowledge about plans, and changes that might lead to plan sponsorship. It also examines the motivations ...