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Effects of a mental health carve-out on use, costs, and payers: A four-year study
(Springer-Verlag; Association of Behavioral Healthcare Management, 1999-11)
This study examines the effects of a mental health carve-out on a sample of continuously enrolled employees ( N = 1,943) over a four-year time frame (1990–1994). The article presents a health care services utilization model ...
Reliability of nerve conduction studies among active workers
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-10)
Nerve conduction studies play an important role in clinical practice and research. Given their widespread use, reliability of tests merits careful attention. We assessed interexaminer and intraexaminer reliability of median ...
Decreased striatal monoaminergic terminals in multiple system atrophy detected with positron emission tomography
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-06)
We examined the density of striatal presynaptic monoaminergic terminals, using a ligand for the type 2 vesicular monoamine transporter, (+)-[ 11 C]dihydrotetrabenazine, with positron emission tomography in 7 normal control ...
Organizational determinants of psychosocial treatment activity of providers in Va mental health facilities
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999-12)
Objective : To identify the determinants of level and intensity of psychosocial treatment activity among staff who deliver services to the severely and mentally ill. Methods : The study sample consisted of 769 treatment ...
Diet and risk for breast cancer recurrence and survival
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-02)
Dietary factors may influence the risk for breast cancer and also the prognosis following diagnosis and treatment. The aim of this study was to assess whether self-reported prediagnosis diet or other patient factors ...
Novel mutations in XLRS1 causing retinoschisis, including first evidence of putative leader sequence change
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-11)
Juvenile retinoschisis is an X-linked recessive disease caused by mutations in the XLRS1 gene. We screened 31 new unrelated patients and families for XLRS1 mutations in addition to previously reported mutations for 60 of ...
Expression of Pax2 and patterning of the chick inner ear
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-10)
Early regionalized gene expression patterns within the otocyst appear to correlate with and contribute to development of mature otic structures. In the chick, the transcription factor Pax2 becomes restricted to the dorsal ...
On summary measures analysis of the linear mixed effects model for repeated measures when data are not missing completely at random
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999-09-15)
Subjects often drop out of longitudinal studies prematurely, yielding unbalanced data with unequal numbers of measures for each subject. A simple and convenient approach to analysis is to develop summary measures for each ...