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Contingency contracting to enhance patient compliance: A review
(Elsevier, 1984)
Researchers and practitioners have expressed considerable interest in contingency contracting as a promising intervention strategy for enlisting patient cooperation, particularly with regard to long-term treatment regimens. ...
Evaluation of a medication refill reminder system for a community pharmacy
(Elsevier, 1985-06)
The problem of maintaining compliance in patients taking chronic medications is well established. One recommended approach to reducing this problem is to develop a system which identifies non-compliers in order that ...
Analysis of cardiac symptoms preceding cardiac arrest
(Elsevier, 1986-12-01)
Prodromal symptoms and cardiac history were examined in 227 patients with coronary artery disease who were successfully resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest was sudden--with either no symptoms ...
Bending properties and ash content of fetal cranial bone
(Elsevier, 1981)
Forty-five specimens of fetal cranial bone ranging in estimated gestational age from 25-40 weeks were tested in three-point bending. Five specimens of a six-year-old calvarium were tested for comparative purposes. The ...
Psychosocial aspects of changes in cigarette-smoking behavior
(Elsevier, 1985-09)
This paper examines the relationships between patients' perceptions of susceptibility to illness, self-efficacy, anxiety, social support and subsequent changes in cigarette-smoking behavior through a prospective study ...
The effect of bystander CPR on survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims
(Elsevier, 1985-11)
The effect of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was studied in 2142 emergency medical service (EMS) cardiac arrest runs. When bystander CPR was administered to cardiac arrest victims, 22.9% of the victims ...
Managing better: Children, parents, and asthma
(Elsevier, 1986-03)
To evaluate a health education program to improve family management of asthma, 310 children with asthma and their 290 parents were randomly assigned to a program or control group. Program families participated in health ...
Circadian fluctuation of plasma epinephrine in supine humans
(Elsevier, 1987)
Previous studies have demonstrated circadian fluctuations of systemic catecholamines in man. However, methodological differences and conflicting results with epinephrine are apparent. In the present study, plasma and urinary ...
Prevalence and outcome of surgery for female incontinence
(Elsevier, 1989-04)
A 4.7 percent surgery rate to correct urine loss conditions was found by a large scale survey of sixty-year and older non-institutionalized women in a Michigan county. The initial postoperative results reported by the ...