Statistics on nursing homes by original purpose of building, admission policy, certification status, cost per resident day, attending physicians, type of supervising staff, rehabilitation services, waiting lists, training programs, room capacity, and bed capacity. Based on data collected in the 1973-74 National Nursing Home Survey.

This policy addresses the role of attending physicians in assisting their patients to return to work after an illness or injury. The physician's role is to diagnose and treat the illness or injury, to advise and support the patient, to provide and communicate appropriate information to the patient and the employer and to work closely with other involved health care professionals to facilitate t...

The experience of being a patient is valuable in learning how to become a humane physician. The behavior of students and house officers is modeled on their attending and senior residents. Interactions with patients will be more likely to resemble the example of senior physicians than any theoretical or ideal example, no matter how well taught.

OBJECTIVE Investigate health care providers' perceived advantages and disadvantages of family member presence (FMP) for a wide spectrum of procedures in the pediatric emergency department. SETTING Urban tertiary care children's hospital. PARTICIPANTS Pediatric emergency department faculty and nurses, pediatric residents. METHODS In a written survey, participants rated approval of FMP for ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether peppy comments from attending physicians increased the workload of residents working in the emergency department (ED). METHODS We conducted two parallel-group, assessor-blinded, randomized trials at the ED in a tertiary care hospital in western Japan. Twenty-five residents who examined either ambulatory (J(^o^)PAN-1 Trial) or transferred patients (J(^o^)PAN-2 Tria...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of attending a medical school with an active policy on restricting gifts from representatives of pharmaceutical and device industries on subsequent prescribing behavior. DESIGN Difference-in-differences approach. SETTING 14 US medical schools with an active gift restriction policy in place by 2004. PARTICIPANTS Prescribing patterns in 2008 and 2009 of physi...

BACKGROUND Psychomotor testing has been recently incorporated into residency training programs not only to objectively assess a surgeon's abilities but also to address current patient-safety advocacy and medicolegal trends. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a cost-effective psychomotor training and assessment tool-The Fundamentals of Orthopaedic Surgery (FORS)-for junior-level o...

INTRODUCTION We developed a device (FreeO2) that automatically adjusts the oxygen flow rates based on patients' needs, in order to limit hyperoxia and hypoxemia and to automatically wean them from oxygen. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using FreeO2 in patients hospitalized in the respiratory ward for an acute exacerbation of COPD. METHODS We conducted a r...