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I Rubin

Publications and source records attributed to I Rubin.

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PubMed1976

Workshop: improving worker coordination in health care delivery.

Patient management teams are able to diagnose and begin to solve their own problems with the help of a self-instructional health team development (HTD) program. In this case, the focus is on those task-related issues which limit team effectiveness.

Delivery of Health Care↗
PubMed1971

Inorganic particles in cigars and cigar smoke.

A number of crystalline and optically isotopic inorganic materials are used in the manufacture of reconstituted tobacco sheets. These sheets, used primarily in inexpensive cigars, often contain diatomaceous earth, which exists in part in the silica mineral form cristobalite, a known fibrogen. Diatom fragments with this crystalline form have been observed in the main smoke stream of cigars made with these tobacco sheets.

Hot Temperature↗
PubMed1970

Subcellular localization of renin and kininogenase in the rat kidney.

1. The distribution of enzymatic activities was determined in subcellular fractions of rat kidney cortex homogenates after various homogenization procedures. The specific activities of kininogenase (KGA), BAEE esterase (pH 8.5), alkaline phosphatase and glucose-6-phosphatase were, on average, 3.4 times higher in the microsomal fraction than in the whole homogenate. The total amount of these activities in the microsomal fraction after gentle, ordinary and forced homogenization were about 15, 40 and 65% of total recovered activities, respectively. These results confirmed the localization of KGA in the microsomal fraction.2. Renin activity was primarily recovered in the heavy mitochondrial fraction. When the force of the homogenization was increased some renin activity was shifted to the soluble fraction.3. When a mixture of renin and purified urinary KGA was given intravenously to an anaesthetized rat, a hypotensive response due to the KGA was followed by a hypertensive renin response. Over a certain range of concentrations KGA and renin could be measured simultaneously. In fractions of kidney homogenates, however, KGA activity was too low to be measured by this method.

Acid Phosphatase↗
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Learning how to learn: the key to CQI.

Learning is a search for truth, and our individual definitions are inevitably limited, writes Irwin Rubin, Ph.D. Because learning is a dynamic circular process, information about a problem or opportunity will be limited unless four perceptions of the truth--each valid, yet incomplete--are accepted. Rubin describes these four perceptions and how to most effectively get them all to work together.

Decision Making, Organizational↗
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Behavioral quality assurance: a transforming experience.

The captains of the health care industry are leading a transformation in health care. Increasing numbers of physician executives are acquiring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to both the science and the art of management. If they wish to practice the art of management at a high professional level, however, physician executives must be willing to experiment with their behavior in interactions. Change and growth in this aspect of human nature will also bring them face-to-face with their self-images. More important, attention throughout an organization to behavior toward one another will have a significant bearing on the quality of the organization's services to clients.

Behavior↗
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Organizations have to grow up.

Organizations progress through a series of growth stages as they mature. How they handle themselves in each stage will determine how well they function within a stage, how rapidly they progress to new stages, and whether they succeed to a new stage at all. Those organizations that adjust to growth most effectively become the standard setters that other organizations follow. Health care organizations, to compete effectively in a changed and changing environment, must seize opportunities to achieve excellence and reach the third stage of organizational development.

Humans↗