Mentally ill -- Care -- Decision making. Mental illness -- Treatment -- Decision making. Mental health services -- Decision making. Mental health -- Information services. Medical informatics. Mental Disorders -- drug therapy.
Objective. We explored preferences and perceptions about treatment decision-making roles among persons with severe mental illness and evaluated two computer-based medication values clarification tools. Methods. In this study we conducted a pilot...
The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as the prion diseases, are a unique group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases affecting humans and other mammals that have infectious, inherited and sporadic etiologies. A central...
This dissertation examines the behavioral and physiological adaptations employed by modern humans to subsist in tropical rainforests. I employ various theoretical and methodological approaches to test hypotheses using empirical data from African...
While plant-plant interactions define community patterns in alpine tundra around the world, topography and elevation and the resulting physical changes that occur when moving down-slope play a greater role in community formation and maintenance in...
Clinical medicine -- Practice. ; Medicine -- Practice. ; Group medical practice.
Health care micro-systems are small, organized groups of clinicians and staff working together with a shared clinical purpose to provide care for a defined set of patients. The size of individual micro-systems vary--a micro-system must be large...
Microelectronics -- Design and construction. ; Micromachining. ; Strains and stresses. ; Silicon compounds.
This dissertation presents the use and extension of capabilities of surface machining technology, utilizing stress engineering between polysilicon and silicon nitride layers to build three-dimensional microstructures. A new theory and experimental...
Medicine -- Religious aspects. Health -- Religious aspects. Spirituality -- Health aspects. Spirituality -- Testing. Primary care (Medicine). Patients -- Religious life.
Background . Although the epidemiology of spirituality/religion is still an emerging field, initial research suggests spirituality may promote better health. Additionally, physician-inquiry about spirituality may enhance the quality and possibly...
Hockey Teams, Freshman, 1959-1960; Class of 1963; Front row: Bunting, D. F.; McCarthy, W. D.; Elders, David; Phelan, J. V., Jr. (Captain); Schmucker, F. K.; Mattoon, R. H., Jr.; King, J. W.; Second row: Morgan, R. V.; Booma, R. A.; Borofsky, R. M.;...
Hockey Teams, 1950s- 1060-1961; Front row: Cranna, T. P. '62; Hugo, D. T. '61; Ritchie, C. P. '61; Moore, R. F. H. '61 (Captain); Haertl, J. P. '61; Richards, J. F., Jr. '61; Roy, P. C., Jr. '62; Second row: Edgar, W. H. '62; Buntain, D. H. L....
Hockey Teams, 1950s- 1961-1962; Front row: Lowther, K. G. '63; Tucker, R.T. '63; Buntain, D. H or K. L. '62; Cranna, T. P. '62 (Captain); Loomis, W. T. '62; Phelan, J. V. D., Jr. '63; Bunting, D. F. '63; Second row: Varkas, A. D., Jr. '64; Booma,...
Older people -- Medical care -- United States -- Evaluation. Chronically ill -- Medical care -- United States -- Evaluation. Ambulatory medical care -- United States -- Evaluation.
Objective . To examine how continuity is related to quality measures for chronically ill elderly patients; to the specialty and caseload of the physicians they predominantly visit; and to the regional context of where their ambulatory care is...