This study identified differences in strategies used by mothers and fathers (N = 60) in coping with their child's insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ) was administered during a home interview. Results showed that both parents used planful problem solving, exercised positive reappraisal, and sought social support frequently, with mothers using more planful ...

Author affiliations: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, Montana, USA (R.J. Nett, J.R. Merriman); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (R.J. Nett, B.J. Park); St. Peter’s Medical Group, Helena (D. Skillman); Lewis and Clark City-County Health Department, Helena (L. Riek); Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana (B. Davis); Sawtooth Infectious ...

OBJECTIVE In October 2013, the South Korean government introduced an incentive programme to increase the availability of Saturday treatment at clinics, hoping to increase the role of primary care providers as gatekeepers to medical care. To the best of our knowledge, no one has yet investigated this programme's effect on overall outpatient care. Our study aims to analyse the change in Saturday ...

of Research Results Research on human interaction with automation in many domains including aviation and anesthesiology has shown that automated systems often fail to function as team players (Norman, 1990; Billings, 1991; 1996; Malin et al., 1991; Sarter and Woods, 1994b). To summarize the data, automated systems that are strong, silent, clumsy, and difficult to direct are not team players. Au...

In a criminal prosecution for medical billing fraud alleging up-coding and overbilling, the government's evidence may encompass the practice's entire billings and draw inferences from them. In addition, fraud may be demonstrated through statistical analysis comparing a physician's billings relative to other providers of the same specialty. The Federal Rules of Evidence govern the admissibility ...

Inflammatory Dermatopathology. A Pathologist’s Survival Guide by Steven D. Billings, M.D. and Jenny Cotton, M.D. is a 253-page hard cover text. The contents of the book consist of a preface, an introduction, and 12 separate chapters. The chapters are organized according to basic cutaneous reaction patterns that include both epidermal and dermal patterns. Chapters 2-9 (chapter 1 is the introduct...