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Accountable Care Organizations: What are they? Where are they coming from? Where will they lead?

Accountable Care Organizations: Will They Deliver?

Effective Health Care bulletins: are they efficient?

managers and clinicians in purchasing and providing healthcare services."' In this paper we question the extent to which the information in such bulletins will aid clinicians and managers in making decisions about the efficient allocation of scarce healthcare resources, and we suggest improvements to the bulletins such that they can become a better tool for helping healthcare purchasers set pri...

Overexpression of CREPT confers colorectal cancer sensitivity to fluorouracil

AIM To investigate expression of cell cycle-related and expression-elevated protein in tumor (CREPT) in colorectal cancer (CRC) and determine its prognostic value in response to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). METHODS The relative expression of CREPT in CRC tumor samples was determined using immunohistochemistry. The protein content in cell lines was analyzed by immunoblotting. Cell viability was meas...

Informal care providers for veterans with SCI: who are they and how are they doing?

Veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI) who received care at the Houston Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center were interviewed about their use of formal and informal assistance to meet their daily physical needs. Informal caregivers were found to play an important role in the daily care of veterans with SCI, with 37% receiving some informal, unpaid assistance-with personal care. Primary...