ABSTRACT
During annual training, a reserve hospital unit staffed a clinic, providing sick-call for its own members and secondary care for about 3,000 National Guard soldiers. Reservists reporting for sick call were treated predominantly for respiratory infection, while the Guard members complained most frequently of field-related injuries. Quality assurance (QA) was done by the authors to evaluate handling of sick call over the 2 weeks, and few problems emerged upon review of the clinic records. Suggestions for future years include establishing standard terminology for recording chief complaint and discharge disposition, and the use of treatment guidelines for training and QA purposes.
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Military Medicine/organization & administration , Military Personnel/education , Guidelines as Topic , Humans , Quality Assurance, Health Care , Terminology as Topic , United StatesABSTRACT
Based on data from medical records of an urban psychiatric center, 113 patients previously identified as having multiple admissions--three or more admissions in 365 days--were compared with 113 patients without multiple admissions who were matched for age, sex, and admission status. No significant differences were found between the two groups on such variables as racial-ethnic background, diagnosis, or living arrangements before and after their index hospital stay. However, patients with multiple admissions were significantly more noncompliant with medication and significantly more likely to abuse drugs or alcohol. They also were younger at their first hospitalization and had more previous hospital admissions, shorter lengths of stay, and more incidents of leave without consent than the patients who did not have multiple admissions.
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Mental Disorders/therapy , Patient Readmission , Urban Population , Adult , Chronic Disease , Female , Hospitals, Psychiatric/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Length of Stay , Male , Mental Disorders/psychology , New York City , Schizophrenia/therapyABSTRACT
This study investigated apparent depth and pattern using four conditions of hemiretinal filtering with 19 male and five female college-student SS. The results for both the depth and pattern of pendulum movement challenge the adequacy of the long-standing latency hypothesis. Apparent depth occurred without simultaneous stimulation disparity and smooth figure-8 patterns resulted only when the stimulation disparity was induced for both cortical hemispheres. The findings suggest independence of depth and pattern processing in the central nervous system and underscore the importance of viewing perception as an active constructive process.
