Under its Evidence-based Practice Program, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is developing scientific information for other agencies and organizations on which to base clinical guidelines, performance measures, and other quality improvement tools. Contractor institutions review all relevant scientific literature on assigned clinical care topics and produce evidence reports a...

This study, using National Labor Relations Board data and American Hospital Association data, reports on the status of union election activity in the hospital industry for a 65-month period, January 1980-May 1985, and contrasts it with earlier data for a similar 65-month time period (1974-79). Together these data provide a comprehensive overview of union election activity in non-Federal, nongov...

The results of treating 85 patients suffering from craniopharyngioma are reviewed. The recurrence of the tumour after 20 symptom-free years after radical excision is reported. Claims for successful treatment of this illness should be reviewed in this light.

versa can also happen. However, the co-existence of a patch of morphea mimicking as Leprosy patch in an underlying case of neuriticleprosy, can be very misleading. We present a case with glove and stocking anaesthesia and peripheral nerve enlargement with a single large hypopigmented, non-anaesthetic macule on trunk, clinically diagnosed as Hansen's disease (Borderline Tuberculoid BT). Slit ski...

-A long circular cylinder with radius R and thickness t transmits a longitudinal eccentrically applied force to a rigid half-space. We study the influence of the eccentricity of the load and the ratio R/t on the stress state of the cylinder using the theory of thin shells in bending. The elastic displacements are presented in the form of a Fourier expansion, the coefficients of which are found ...