This study documents the drug therapy patterns and 1-year treatment costs for 18,833 Medicaid patients with schizophrenia treated with conventional antipsychotic medications in Michigan, Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia. One in four patients used no antipsychotic, but had total costs that were less than for treated patients (-$2,576, p < .0001); 18 percent of treated patients delayed therapy for ...

The focus of the paper is the evaluation of inter-labeler reliability on broad phonetic transcriptions when la-belers do not necessarily know the language they are labeling. We provide an analysis of label disagreements, presenting results from six languages, Spanish, and Vietnamese with a total of 2 minutes of continuous labeled speech. Labeler agreement across languages ranges from 41 percent...

G. S. Collins and Y. Le Manach Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, and Departments of Anesthesia and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michael DeGroote School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and the Perioperati...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease medications. DATA SOURCE Claims data from 1997 from two indemnity and three independent practice association (IPA) model managed care insurance plans. RESEARCH DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of claims data. DATA COLLECTION Adult patients with diabetes mellitus (DM, n = 26,444), congestive heart failure (CHF, n...

Human color vision is based on three light-sensitive pigments. The isolation and sequencing of genomic and complementary DNA clones that encode the apoproteins of these three pigments are described. The deduced amino acid sequences show 41 +/- 1 percent identity with rhodopsin. The red and green pigments show 96 percent mutual identity but only 43 percent identity with the blue pigment. Green p...

The influence of aluminum on some serum parameters related to bone metabolism has been investigated by daily administration of aluminum over different periods of time. Daily administration of aluminum (1 mg/kg BW) for 20 or 50 days elevated serum phosphorous concentration by 16 percent and had no significant effect on serum calcium level. When aluminum was injected as a complex with citric...