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As many as 40 percent of patients in general medicine and family medicine practices have or have had serious alcohol­related problems. Detection of drinking problems and subsequent intervention by the primary care physician can significantly improve the outcome for these patients. Studies have shown that even brief interventions, administered during a regular office visit, can have therapeutic ...

BACKGROUND The objective benefits of tympanostomy tubes for otitis media are well established, but the subjective impact of surgery on child quality of life (QOL) has not been systematically studied. OBJECTIVES To determine the subjective impact of tympanostomy tubes on child QOL, and to compare the variability in QOL before surgery with that observed after surgery. DESIGN Prospective, obse...

1. This document is a new publication in a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date: May 2017. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. For a copy of the Florida Citrus Production Guide, request information on its availability at your county ext...

This study aims to determine the technique of opening and disbursing closing deposit accounts at BPR BAPAS 69 Magelang Head Office. The method in this is Descriptive Analysis by defining, illustrating, or summarizing data points so that patterns meet all conditions can emerge. results are customer must come office bringing requirements (KTP/SIM/PASPOR/KITAS NPWP), visit Customer Service counter...

OBJECTIVE To examine strict smoke-free home policies among smoking parents assessed in pediatric offices. METHODS We analyzed baseline parental survey data from 10 control practices in a national trial of pediatric office-based tobacco control interventions (Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure, CEASE). We used logistic regression models with generalized estimating equations to e...

CONTEXT Migraine headache is highly prevalent in the United States, resulting in large healthcare expenditures. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) at an osteopathic family practice residency clinic affected the cost of treating patients with migraine headache, compared with non-OMT care at the osteopathic clinic and care at an allopathic family ...

BACKGROUND The Medication Management Program was established at the Fraser Health Authority in 2005, in response to evidence suggesting that having pharmacists provide care to patients in their homes after discharge from hospital could reduce subsequent utilization of health service resources. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of the Medication Management Program in its first 2 years o...

We studied the self-reported information needs of 47 physicians during a half day of typical office practice. The physicians raised 269 questions about patient management. Questions related to all medical specialties and were highly specific to the individual patient's problem. Subspecialists most frequently asked questions related to other subspecialties. Only 30% of physicians' information ne...