This study examined the impact of expanded function allied dental personnel on the productivity and efficiency of general dental practices. Detailed practice financial and clinical data were obtained from a convenience sample of 154 general dental practices in Colorado. In this state, expanded function dental assistants can provide a wide range of reversible dental services/procedures, and dent...

OBJECTIVES We propose a new claims-computable measure of the primary care treatability of emergency department (ED) visits and validate it using a nationally representative sample of Medicare data. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING This is a validation study using 2011-2012 Medicare claims data for a nationally representative 5% sample of fee-for-service beneficiaries to compare the new measure's perf...

GeneraVs Office, United States Army, Vol. X O?Pfutsch. Dr. John S. Billings, in presenting the tenth volume of this magnificent undertaking, states that it " includes 7,658 author-titles, representing 2,905 volumes and 7,282 pamphlets. It also includes 14,265 subject-titles of separate books and pamphlets and 29,421 titles of articles in periodicals." One of the easiest methods of testing the c...

Phytoplankton may function as a 'sensor' of changes in aquatic environment and responds rapidly to such changes. In freshwaters, coexistence of species that have similar ecological requirements and show the same environmental requirements frequently occurs; such species groups are named functional groups. The use of phytoplankton functional groups to evaluate these changes has proven to be very...

s: Joint Conference of 26th Annual American Society of Mining and Reclamation and 11th Billings Land Reclamation Symposium, May 30-June 5, 2009, Billings, MT. p 12, 2009 The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection reviewed the costs and benefits of two different types of data gathering by generating cross sections of larg...

eady access to primary healthcare is a desire of governments, healthcare providers and the public. One indicator that is recognized as an indirect measure of access to and quality of primary healthcare is the rate of hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs). An ACSC hospitalization, also known as a potentially preventable hospitalization, is one in which an individual is...

than other regions of the world (Mitchell et al., 1990; Maxwell, 1992). Summer air temperatures in northern To investigate the interactions among mineral N, C availability, Alaska are predicted to increase 3 to 68C over current microbial biomass, and respiration in arctic soils, we sampled soils five times during a growing season from a toposequence on a slope levels, whereas precipitation duri...

Wolbachia is an endosymbiont of diverse arthropod lineages that can induce various alterations of host reproduction for its own benefice. Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is the most common phenomenon, which results in embryonic lethality when males that bear Wolbachia are mated with females that do not. In the cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cerasi, Wolbachia seems to be responsible for previousl...