Search Results - "Kaplan, S. H."

Is there a correlation between obstructive sleep-apnea syndrome severity and prolidase activity as an oxidative stress marker? by Gunbatar, H, Kaplan, H, Yildiz, S

“…Objective: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a highly prevalent breathing disorder in sleep. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship…”
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Identification and classification of the causes of events in transfusion medicine by Kaplan, H., Battles, J.B., Van der Schaaf, T.W., Shea, C.E., Mercer, S. Q.

“…BACKGROUND: Transfusion medicine lacks a standard method for the systematic collection and analysis of event reports. Review of event reports from the Food and…”
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Self-monitoring of blood glucose in non-insulin-treated diabetic patients: a longitudinal evaluation of its impact on metabolic control by Franciosi, M., Pellegrini, F., De Berardis, G., Belfiglio, M., Di Nardo, B., Greenfield, S., Kaplan, S. H., Rossi, M. C. E., Sacco, M., Tognoni, G., Valentini, M., Nicolucci, A.

“…Aims  In the framework of a nationwide outcomes research programme, we assessed the impact of self‐monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) on metabolic control over…”
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The Unreliability of Individual Physician "Report Cards" for Assessing the Costs and Quality of Care of a Chronic Disease by Hofer, Timothy P, Hayward, Rodney A, Greenfield, Sheldon, Wagner, Edward H, Kaplan, Sherrie H, Manning, Willard G

“…CONTEXT Physician profiling is widely used by many health care systems, but little is known about the reliability of commonly used profiling systems…”
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Preliminary Psychometric Evaluation of the Child Health Ratings Inventory (CHRIs) and Disease-Specific Impairment Inventory-Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (DSII-HSCT) in Parents and Children by S. K. Parsons, M. C. Shih, D. K. Mayer, S. E. Barlow, S. E. Supran, S. L. Levy, Greenfield, S., S. H. Kaplan

“…Purpose: To describe the initial results of the Child Health Ratings Inventory (CHRIs), 20-item generic health-related quality of life (HRQL) instrument and…”
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Characteristics of physicians with participatory decision-making styles by KAPLAN, S. H, GREENFIELD, S, GANDEK, B, ROGERS, W. H, WARE, J. E

“…To identify physician and practice characteristics associated with a physician's propensity to involve patients in diagnostic and treatment decisions, or…”
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Process of Care Events in Transplantation: Effects on the Cost of Hospitalization by Egorova, N. N., Gelijns, A. C., Moskowitz, A. J., Emond, J. C., Krapf, R., Lazar, E. J., Guillerme, S., Kaplan, H. S., Greco, G.

“…Deviations in the processes of healthcare delivery that affect patient outcomes are recognized to have an impact on the cost of hospitalization. Whether…”
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Individualized Patient Education and Coaching to Improve Pain Control Among Cancer Outpatients by OLIVER, Jennifer Wright, KRAVITZ, Richard L, KAPLAN, Sherrie H, MEYERS, Frederick J

“…An estimated 42% of cancer patients suffer from poorly controlled pain, in part because of patient-related barriers to pain control. The objective of this…”
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Getting the right blood to the right patient: the contribution of near-miss event reporting and barrier analysis by Kaplan, H.S.

“…Safety and reliability in blood transfusion are not static, but are dynamic non-events. Since performance deviations continually occur in complex systems,…”
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Health‐related quality of life in pediatric bone marrow transplant survivors: According to whom? by Parsons, Susan K., Barlow, Sarah E., Levy, Sheryl L., Supran, Stacey E., Kaplan, Sherrie H.

“…Historically, health‐related quality of life (HRQL) assessment in pediatrics, including the few validated instruments in pediatric oncology, has been based on…”
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The impact of age, marital status, and physician‐patient interactions on the care of older women with breast carcinoma by Silliman, Rebecca A., Troyan, Susan L., Guadagnoli, Edward, Kaplan, Sherrie H., Greenfield, Sheldon

“…Understanding why older women with breast carcinoma do not receive definitive treatment is critical if disparities in mortality between younger and older women…”
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Sex Differences in Academic Advancement — Results of a National Study of Pediatricians by Kaplan, Sherrie H, Sullivan, Lisa M, Dukes, Kimberly A, Phillips, Carol F, Kelch, Robert P, Schaller, Jane G

“…Despite an increase in the proportion of applicants to medical school who are women (26 percent in 1977 vs. 37 percent in 1987) and an increase in the…”
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Breast cancer care in older women : Sources of information, social support, and emotional health outcomes by SILLIMAN, R. A, DUKES, K. A, SULLIVAN, L. M, KAPLAN, S. H

“…The authors studied older women with breast cancer and asked: 1) where do older women get information regarding breast cancer care and how helpful do they…”
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Event reporting systems: MERS-TM, surveillance--seeing and using the data below the waterline by Kaplan, H S

“…A significant variability in reporting rates, particularly of near-miss events, limits the quantitative reliability of event reporting. Organizations tend to…”
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Early transfusion and length of survival in acquired immune deficiency syndrome: experience with a population receiving medical care at a public hospital by Vamvakas, E, Kaplan, H S

“…An extensive body of literature has attributed an immunosuppressive, and potentially deleterious, effect to blood transfusion. The possibility of a deleterious…”
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Development and Testing of a New Measure of Case Mix for Use in Office Practice by Greenfield, Sheldon, Sullivan, Lisa, Dukes, Kimberly A., Silliman, Rebecca, D'Agostino, Ralph, Kaplan, Sherrie H.

“…Case mix has been shown to be of critical importance in studies of effectiveness and quality of care using health outcomes. How these variables are defined,…”
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Quantifying comorbidity in a disease-specific cohort: adaptation of the total illness burden index to prostate cancer by Stier, David M, Greenfield, Sheldon, Lubeck, Deborah P, Dukes, Kimberly A, Flanders, Scott C, Henning, James M, Weir, Julie, Kaplan, Sherrie H

“…Objectives. Numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of comorbid illness when analyzing medical outcomes. The purpose of this study was to adapt a…”
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The Emergence of Humans: The Coevolution of Intelligence and Longevity with Intergenerational Transfers by Kaplan, Hillard S., Robson, Arthur J.

“…Two striking differences between humans and our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, are the size of our brains (larger by a factor of three or…”
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Protection against Gram-Negative Bacteremia and Endotoxemia with Human Monoclonal IgM Antibodies by Nelson N. H. Teng, Kaplan, Henry S., Hebert, Joan M., Moore, Cynthia, Douglas, Herndon, Wunderlich, Annette, Braude, Abraham I.

“…Hybridomas producing human monoclonal IgM antibodies (mAbs) against bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were generated by fusion of B lymphocytes from…”
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Long-Term Culture of Human Bone Marrow Cells by Gartner, Suzanne, Kaplan, Henry S.

“…A method has been described for the long-term culture of human bone marrow cells in liquid medium. Hematopoiesis, as measured by the production of…”
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