OBJECTIVE This report presents data on current hospice care patients. Numbers and percents are shown by selected characteristics of the agencies from which the patients received services, by selected patient characteristics, by services provided, by types of personnel that provided the services, and by diagnoses of these patients. METHODS The data used for this report are from the National Ce...

the most fundamental insight in heavenly religions is to recognize the god as a justice commanding and a justice rising which is the base of human’s relation with god. justice philosophical concept is the basis of resurrection. justice and its performance is one of the human’s basic and natural needs, that its existence is ready a good basis for humans society development .the accomplished rese...

M edicare reform is one of the top issues on the domestic policy agenda, and the role of private plans in that reform is one of its critical dimensions.The Medicare experience with private plans has been principally through the Medicare+Choice (M+C) program. M+C plans, primarily HMOs, receive capitated payments from Medicare and provide coverage for Medicare-covered services.To the extent that ...

optimizing the herbicide dose by the addition of adjuvants is an acceptable way to increase performance and to reduce the risk of side effects from herbicides. therefore, to detect a suitable adjuvant for clodinafop-propargyl against little seed canary grass (phalaris minor retz.). greenhouse experiment were conducted as factorial in completely randomized design with four replications for compa...

OBJECTIVE To assess the usage of acupuncture by members of British Medical Acupuncture Society (BMAS) in their daily work, in the course of a survey of attitudes to regulation of the acupuncture profession. METHODS A brief questionnaire survey of all members was conducted in December 2002. RESULTS After a single mailing, 1112 members responded (a response rate of 48%). Seventy-five percent ...