OBJECTIVES This report describes ambulatory care visits to hospital outpatient departments (OPDs) in the United States. Statistics are presented on selected hospital, patient, and visit characteristics. Selected trends in OPD utilization from 1997 through 2007, as well as items new to the 2007 survey, are presented. METHODS The data presented in this report were collected in the 2007 National...

In this paper, we present a multiaxial system for psychodynamic diagnosis, which has attained wide usage in Germany in the last 10 years. First we will discuss the 4 operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics (OPD) axes: illness experience and treatment assumptions, relationships, mental conflicts, and structure, then clinical applications will be outlined. Focus psychodynamic formulations can b...

Optimized Profile Descent (OPD) is an arrival procedure for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), which has been demonstrated to effectively decrease noise, emissions and fuel costs. Reference [1] identifies optimal sequencing and spacing policies for OPD operations under uncertainty and shows that the use of these policies at given metering points is expected to result in po...

the use of organophosphorus hydrolase (oph) enzyme to degrade chemical warfare agents is one of the most frequently used decontamination methods. oph is a ~36 kda homodimeric metalloprotein that is found in the membrane of flavobacterium sp. strain atcc 27551 and brevundimonas diminuta mg and is capable of hydrolyzing a wide range of oxon and thion , such as paraoxon and parathion. oph gene ( o...

This paper studies scenarios of cyclic dominance in a coevolutionary spatial model in which game strategies and links between agents adaptively evolve over time. The Optional Prisoner’s Dilemma (OPD) game is employed. The OPD is an extended version of the traditional Prisoner’s Dilemma where players have a third option to abstain from playing the game. We adopt an agent-based simulation approac...

Purpose: The study aim at exploring cardiac patients‟ perception of the factors affecting the quality of cardiac services delivered in Out Patient Department (OPD) in Jordanian hospitals. Methods: Semi-structured face to face interviews were conducted with 17 cardiac patients during their clinical appointment in two cardiac care centers in Amman, Jordan. A framework approach was used to analyze...

BACKGROUND Minimally invasive pancreatic surgery has evolved rapidly, but total laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy has not been widely adopted owing to its technical complexity. Hybrid laparoscopy-assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy (HLAPD) combines the relative ease of open surgery with the benefits of a minimally invasive approach. This study evaluates the safety and effectiveness of the hybri...

Among 183 depressed patients participating in a randomized long-term treatment trial of fluoxetine and nortriptyline, 30 patients had borderline personality disorder (BPD), 53 had other personality disorders (OPD), and 100 had no personality disorders (NPD). The borderline depressed patients had earlier age of onset of their depressions, more chronic depressions, more alcohol and cannabis comor...

PURPOSE To evaluate repeatability of the AcuTarget (SensoMotoric Instruments, Teltow, Germany) measurements and compare them to those obtained with the OPD-Scan III (NIDEK, Inc., Fremont, CA). METHODS Measurements were taken with the AcuTarget and OPD-Scan III in 62 eyes of 31 patients. Results were compared using paired Student's t tests, Pearson correlation coefficients, and 95% limits of a...

PURPOSE To present case examples outlining the use of wavefront aberrometry for toric intraocular lens (IOL) implantation pre- and postoperatively. METHODS Twelve eyes that underwent AcrySof Toric IOL (Alcon Inc Laboratories) implantation were assessed pre- and postoperatively using the NIDEK OPD Scan II (NIDEK Co Ltd). Wavefront aberrometry, corneal topography, and objective visual quality w...