OBJECTIVES This report describes medications provided or prescribed during ambulatory medical care visits in 1992. Total ambulatory care medication therapy combines data from office-based physicians, hospital outpatient departments (OPD's), and hospital emergency departments (ED's). Drug therapy is described along three dimensions: number of drugs provided or prescribed (drug mention), whether ...

If your language did not have words for numbers, would you be able to think about numeric quantities? An Amazonian culture where number words are limited to one, two and many has provided new insights to the interaction between thought and language.

Purpose—The purpose was to determine the number of semantic neighbors, namely semantic set size, for 88 nonobjects (Kroll & Potter, 1984) and determine how semantic set size related to other measures and age. Method—Data were collected from 82 adults and 92 preschool children in a discrete association task. The nonobjects were presented via computer, and participants reported the first word tha...

Purpose: The purpose was to determine the number of semantic neighbors, namely semantic set size, for 88 nonobjects (Kroll & Potter, 1984) and determine how semantic set size related to other measures and age. Method: Data were collected from 82 adults and 92 preschool children in a discrete association task. The nonobjects were presented via computer, and participants reported the first word t...

OBJECTIVES Dizziness and vertigo account for roughly 4% of chief symptoms in the emergency department (ED). Little is known about the aggregate costs of ED evaluations for these patients. The authors sought to estimate the annual national costs associated with ED visits for dizziness. METHODS This cost study of adult U.S. ED visits presenting with dizziness or vertigo combined public-use ED v...

The burden of heart failure (HF) remains formidable in the US, with nearly one million annual hospital admissions and frequent outpatient visits to a variety of care providers. While HF outcomes have improved modestly over the past several decades, many patients still struggle to maintain a satisfactory quality of life. Implantable cardioverter– defibrillators have reduced the risk for sudden c...

RESEARCHDESIGNANDMETHODS — We identified black and white adult diabetic patients who were continuously enrolled (1992–2001) and in whom diabetes was 1) diagnosed before 1994 (n 1,686) or 2) newly diagnosed in 1994–1997 (n 1,280). We used hierarchical models to estimate the effect of race on average annual HbA1c (A1C) controlling for baseline A1C, BMI, and age, as well as annual measures of type...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of endometriosis and the need for treatment in the USA has led to the need to explore the contemporary cost burden associated with the disease. This retrospective cohort study compared direct and indirect healthcare costs in patients with endometriosis to a control group without endometriosis. METHODS Women aged 18-49 years with endometriosis (date of initial diagn...