Increasingly, Americans are relying on coverage through a family member to maintain continuous insurance when their own employersponsored insurance (ESI) ends. Meanwhile, employers have responded by limiting access to and imposing surcharges on dependent coverage elections. Between 2005 and 2013, adults who transitioned off ESI became likely to enroll in a non-group plan and were twice as likel...

Ion-mobility spectrometry (IMS) in conjunction with radioactive ionization sources has been employed for field-portable applications for the past two decades. Recently, electrospray ionization (ESI) sources have been shown as a viable ionization source with IMS instruments, enabling the analysis of many nonvolatile compounds. Introduction of a liquid-sheath-flow ESI source enabled the direct an...

OBJECTIVES Recently, there have been increasing concerns about the emergence of mupirocin resistance and increased infections due to lowered inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus. We conducted this systemic analysis to find out whether the application of mupirocin was effective for the prevention of exit-site infection (ESI) and peritonitis in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD). METHO...

Emergency Department (ED) crowding is a major problem in the U.S. like in many other countries worldwide. This problem is adversely affecting the safety of the patients who rely on receiving a timely treatment in EDs. As a part of solving this problem, a triage process is utilized. Triage is a pre-hospital process by which patients are sorted according to the severity of their illnesses or inju...

Changes in the Composition of the Workforce and Their Effects on the Future of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance By Gregory Acs and Linda J. Blumberg In this paper, we examine how projected changes in the US economy and workforce may affect employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) for workers. We develop a multivariate model of ESI coverage and use it to forecast coverage rates in 2008 under...

The average energy exDended to create an electron-hole pair in silicon ESi(T) has been measured in the 5-3200K temperature range with thin totally depleted surface barrier and diffused junction radiation detectors. The data have been normalized to a value of ESi (3000K) = 3.62 eV. A dependence of ESi on T much weaker than previously published by other authors has been observed. In the examined ...

The use of electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) in negative ion mode was investigated as a direct probe for identifying Al species in Al-accumulating hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla) samples. Cell sap solutions of hydrangea leaves were purified using Sephadex G-10 liquid chromatography and each fraction was analyzed using ESI-MS and ESI-MS/MS to identify Al species. In hydrangea ...

We present the current status of the development of microfluidic devices fabricated on different substrates for coupling with electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Until now, much success has been gained in fabricating the ESI chips, which show better performances due to miniaturization when compared with traditional methods. Integration of multiple steps for sample preparation an...

A systematic approach was used to evaluate the electrospray ionization mass spectral (ESI-MS) analysis of sucrose octasulfate (SOS), an important pharmaceutical agent. SOS represents a model for other suffated carbohydrates, such as heparin and glycosaminoglycan-derived oligosaccharides that also are highly sulfated and pose difficult analytical problems. A survey of ammonium counterions showed...

the chemical components in the decoctions of chinese herbal medicines are not always the same as those in the crude herbs because of the insolubility or instability of some compounds. in this work, a high-performance liquid chromatography (hplc) coupled with electrospray ionization (esi) tandem mass spectrometry method was developed to explore dynamic variation patterns of aconitum alkaloids in...