TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction .................................... 576 I. Development of the "Incidental to Patient Care" Test 578 A. Supervisory Status Under the National Labor Relations Act ............................ 579 B. Emergence of the "Incidental to Patient Care" Test ................................... 583 C. NLRA Amendments of 1974 ................. 587 D. The Rise of the "Incident...

AIM Incidental removal of the parathyroid glands is common in some cases. In this trial, we investigated the risk factors, incidence, and outcomes associated with incidental excision of the parathyroid glands during thyroid surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS The records of patients who had undergone thyroid surgery in our department between January 2006 and December 2011 were retrospectively eval...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Variability in radiologists' reporting styles and recommendations for incidental thyroid nodules can lead to confusion among clinicians and may contribute to inconsistent patient care. Our aim was to describe reporting practices of radiologists for incidental thyroid nodules seen on CT and MR imaging and to determine factors that influence reporting styles. MATERIALS AN...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The repeatability of head CT interpretations may be studied in different contexts: in peer-review quality assurance interventions or in interobserver agreement studies. We assessed the agreement between double-blind reports of outpatient CT scans in a routine academic practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS Outpatient head CT scans (119 patients) were randomly selected to be re...

This paper is an investigation of incidental clauses in spoken Catalan. Our aim is to define the prosodic characteristics of incidental clauses and their functions in the discourse. After an analysis of a sample of incidental clauses in spoken Catalan (taken from semispontaneous argumentative and narrative productions), the following conclusions are reached: incidental clauses are often produce...