Do you sometimes have a gut feeling? Having a gut wrenching experience? If we look superficially at the gut, it is a pretty simple structure, a long tube with one hole at each end, and two side branches, the billiary and pancreatic ducts. Its purpose is intake, digestion, absorption, nutrient extraction and excretion.1 However, it is smarter and more complex than that. The gut is the only organ...

Do you sometimes have a gut feeling? Having a gut wrenching experience? If we look superficially at the gut, it is a pretty simple structure, a long tube with one hole at each end, and two side branches, the billiary and pancreatic ducts. Its purpose is intake, digestion, absorption, nutrient extraction and excretion.1 However, it is smarter and more complex than that. The gut is the only organ...

In recent years, jail diversion programs for people with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders have received increasing attention and have rapidly grown in number. Previous studies suggest that jail diversion programs have the potential to achieve positive outcomes. The present study reports findings from 6 jail diversion programs (3 pre-booking and 3 post-booking) par...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the association between crowding as measured by ambulance diversion and differences in access, treatment and outcomes between black and white patients. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING We linked daily ambulance diversion logs from 26 California counties between 2001 and 2011 to Medicare patient records with acute myocardial infarction and categorised patients...

A 49 years old lady presented with low-grade fever (99-100°F) for 2 years. During this time she was extensively worked-up for pyrexia of unknown origin but no diagnosis could be established. Her Initial blood work-up was all negative except high alkaline phosphatase and gamma GT (374 IU and 195 IU respectively). She later presented to our tertiary care centre with facial swelling, flushing and ...

This paper will describe the Diversion OffGate Management Assistant (DOGMA) system, a decision-support tool that uses airline-articulated policies to critique dispatcher initiated diversion decisions to ensure that these plans will not only maintain safe operating practices, but will also go further toward providing decision makers with the broad and diverse set of concerns from various stakeho...

This research effort is undertaken to determine the impact that one hospital’s diversion status has on other hospitals in a region and the strength of these interactions. The conditional probability of one hospital going on diversion given that another is already on diversion is evaluated. Based on this analysis, the strength of interactions among the hospitals is established. Through statistic...