INTRODUCTION The subacute care unit in Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) was set up in May 2009. We examined its impact on the transitions at the nexus between hospital and community sectors, patients' discharge destination and functional performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied patients admitted during the initial 6-month period (May to October 2009). Differences in demographics, length of ...

Unpublished data from Health Canada indicate that only 32% of Canada's family physicians believe they can bill their health plans for providing smoking-cessation counselling to patients with no smoking-related illness. A CMA study of provincial billing codes determined that all provinces and territories except British Columbia and Alberta have billing codes for clinical tobacco interventions, w...

Cattle Sciences website at http://beefcattle.ans.oregonstate.edu. 2. Associate Professor, Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center – Burns, Oregon State University [email protected] 3. Biological Science Technician, ARS-USDA Burns, OR – [email protected] 4. Associate Professor, Oregon State University Extension Service, Umatilla County Extension randy.mills@oregonsta...

In 1973, the Supreme Court decided one of the most well-known cases in history—Roe v. Wade. In this landmark decision, the United States Supreme Court held that the constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman’s right to have an abortion. From 1973 through 1977, Medicaid covered the costs of an abortion without restriction. In 1966, Republican Senator Henry Hyde introduced an amendment to...

Figure 7.1 Nicknamed “buckyballs,” buckminsterfullerene molecules (C60) contain only carbon atoms. Here they are shown in a ball-and-stick model (left). These molecules have single and double carbon-carbon bonds arranged to form a geometric framework of hexagons and pentagons, similar to the pattern on a soccer ball (center). This unconventional molecular structure is named after architect R. B...

In many parliamentary systems, bills can be proposed by a single parliamentarian, or cosponsored by a group of parliamentarians. In the latter case, bill cosponsorship defines a symmetric relation that can be taken as a measure of ideological agreement between parliamentarians. Political scientists have analysed bill cosponsorship networks in the Congress of the USA, assessing its community str...

This paper shows how jurisdictional disputes between congressional committees drives the regulation of the Internet. Committees fight over who will retain jurisdiction over Internet issues, and thus obtain a stream of current and future political rents from Internet interest groups. We show in this paper, that ideology and constituency makeup have relatively little bearing on strategies congres...

The Government of India recently published a draft version of the Medical Treatment of Terminally-Ill Patients Bill for comments and feedback from the public. The bill, when enacted, will provide some clarity to end-of-life care in terminally ill patients in India and is intended to protect both physicians and patients frompotential liability. Such a law is relevant for the global oncology comm...