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Reducing Disparities in Vaccination Rates Between Different Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Groups- The Potential of Community-based Multilevel Interventions
(2005)
There are well-documented disparities in vaccination rates between different socioeconomic
and racial/ethnic groups in the United States. These disparities persist in spite of an overall
increase in vaccination rates during ...
Predictors of functional recovery for hip fractured elders during 12 months following hospital discharge: a prospective study on a Taiwanese sample
(Springer-Verlag; International Osteoporosis Foundation and National Osteoporosis Foundation, 2004-06)
To examine the longitudinal changes in overall and individual physical activities of daily living (PADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after hospital discharge in elderly ...
Mediation and Modification of the Association Between Hopelessness, Hostility, and Progression of Carotid Atherosclerosis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-02)
Hopelessness and hostility are linked to progression of carotid atherosclerosis (PCA). The purpose of this study was to replicate such relations and to evaluate the role of biological pathways involving hyperactivation of ...
Striatal monoamine terminals in Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-06)
We used positron emission tomography (PET) with (+)-[ 11 C]dihydrotetrabenazine ([+]-[ 11 C]DTBZ) to examine striatal monoaminergic presynaptic terminal density in 20 patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), 25 with ...
Association of influenza epidemics with global climate variability
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-11)
The reasons for the seasonality and annual changes in the impact of influenza epidemics remain poorly understood. We investigated the covariations between a major component of climate, namely the El Niño Southern Oscillation ...
Using sex-averaged genetic maps in multipoint linkage analysis when identity-by-descent status is incompletely known
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-07)
The ratio of male and female genetic map distances varies dramatically across the human genome. Despite these sex differences in genetic map distances, most multipoint linkage analyses use sex-averaged genetic maps. We ...
Sex Differences in Severe Pulmonary Emphysema
(2007)
Rationale: Limited data on sex differences in advanced COPD are
available.
Objectives: To compare male and female emphysema patients with
severe disease.
Methods: One thousand fifty-three patients (38.8% female) ...
The mental health care context and patient characteristics: Implications for provider job satisfaction
(Springer-Verlag; Association of Behavioral Healthcare Management, NCCBH, 2002-08)
This research examines job satisfaction among 282 staff providing mental health care to 574 patients with serious mental illness. The mental health staff worked in 18 Department of Veterans Affairs inpatient and outpatient ...
Longitudinal assessment of mortality risk among candidates for liver transplantation
(W.B. SaundersWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2003-01)
Liver allocation policy recently was modified to use the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) for patients with chronic liver disease to stratify potential recipients according to risk for waitlist death. In this study, ...
Trends of Probable Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in New York City after the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
(2003)
The authors investigated trends in probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence in the general
population of New York City in the first 6 months after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Three random ...