A study of the impact of coin8urance on phye& ciun 2li8it8, physician expense, ancillary 8e?YJiCe8, and ancillary services eopense. When a SQ-percent coinsurance rate was introduced to the Palo Alto Group Health Plan, the members’ demand for me&al care wa8 significantly reduced, other thing8 remaining the 8ame. Th,i8 study differ8 from the preceding article in that it hold8 all other oariableo ...

Knowledge of the composition of the bird community in Alto Balsas (southwestern Puebla, Central Mexico) is needed for management programs aiming at protection and conservation of bird species and their habitats I studied sites with tropical deciduous forest. Data were obtained during 1666 hours of field work in 238 days from March 1998 to September 2000. Six permanent transect (3.5 km long and ...

Parents respond to the death of a child in very different ways. Some parents may be violent or angry, some sad and tearful, some quiet and withdrawn, and some frankly delusional. We present a case in which a father's reaction to his daughter's death is a desire to protect his wife from the stressful information. The wife is in the second trimester of a high-risk pregnancy and so is particularly...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the impact of a prior cesarean section on preeclampsia risk in a subsequent pregnancy. METHODS Study data were collected from the Korea National Health Insurance Claims Database of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service for 2006-2010. Patients who had their first delivery in 2006 and subsequent delivery between 2007 and 2010 in Korea were enrolled. The overa...

AbstractBackground: Macrosomia is a term applied to newborns with a birth weight of 4000 gr or above. Perinatal mortality and morbidity is increased in fetal macrosomia. Clavicular fracture, injury to brachial plexus, and hypoglycemia are important side effects. Mother’s age, body mass index of mother, weight gain in pregnancy, mother’s height, diabetes, history of macrocosmic delivery, gestati...