Rehabilitation engineering—a developing specialty

Developing New Specialty Grains for Ruminants

SUMMARY Corn, soybean, and sunflower hybrids with improved agronomic and nutritional traits are grown widely today. Barring increased concern about genetically altered crops, production of specialty grains is likely to increase because novel traits possessed by many new hybrids are desired by both grain producers and grain users. Most specialty grains available today possess improved altered " ...

Psychiatric intensive care: a developing specialty.

Psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) fulfil a role analogous to the intensive care/ intensive therapy units familiar in general hospitals. Lehane and Rees ( 1995 ), Saverimuttu ( 1996 ) and Ford and Whiffin ( 1991 ) described the establishment of PICUs, where patients who are severely unwell or who present severe management problems can be nursed in safety.

Specialty level II fieldwork in low vision rehabilitation.

OBJECTIVE Low vision rehabilitation is an emerging practice area for the field of occupational therapy. As a result there is a need to develop tools and training for fieldwork educators in this practice area. PARTICIPANTS Occupational therapists with no experience in low vision rehabilitation participated in the pilot of the tools and training developed. METHOD A literature review was compl...

Factors affecting cardiac rehabilitation referral by physician specialty.

PURPOSE Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is widely underutilized because of multiple factors including physician referral practices. Previous research has shown CR referral varies by type of provider, with cardiologists more likely to refer than primary care physicians. The objective of this study was to compare factors affecting CR referral in primary care physicians versus cardiac specialists. M...

Supporting rehabilitation in developing countries.