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J E Wood

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PubMed1990

Patient classification in home health care: are we ready?

This longitudinal descriptive study retrospectively profiled the acutely ill patient in home health care and explored the utility of using patient record data in predicting agency resource use and patient outcome. The findings suggest that those variables traditionally relied on for reimbursement qualification and as components of patient-classification schemes may not be wholly adequate to explain resource use and patient outcome in the home health setting. Professional nursing judgment of the patient's prognosis was found to be the most sensitive variable predicting outcome. Selected diagnoses and self-care capacity of the patient were the major predictors of resource use. Suggestions are offered for further studies that may move public health nursing more quickly toward the development of consistent and accurate home health care case mix measures.

Aged↗
PubMed1990

Independent instances of "souvenir" Asian skulls from the Tampa Bay area.

In the summer of 1984, police in Pinellas County, Florida, confiscated six identically colored imported Asian skulls (in a shipping case) from a private citizen. In May 1988, in nearby Hillsborough County, police confiscated a very similar skull from another private citizen, who allegedly had found it in an abandoned house. Aside from slight color differences between the six found in Pinellas County and the one found in Hillsborough County, the skulls are virtually identical in their osteological characteristics and condition and in the vital statistics derived from each. Each skull is as clean and dry as those typically sold by commercial scientific supply outlets in the United States. Each is edentulous (primarily premortem), between approximately 20 and 60 years of age at death, and morphologically Asian. Five of the seven are morphologically male, one is morphologically female, and one is a mosaic with respect to gender-related features. Police, medical examiners, coroners, and forensic anthropologists should be aware of such "souvenir" specimens, in the event that they encounter similar skulls. Discriminant function analyses for race and sex yield considerably conflicting results, which underscores the need for using extreme caution when interpreting forensic science estimates based on such techniques.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

Quantitation of human shoulder anatomy for prosthetic arm control--II. Anatomy matrices.

Part I presented mathematically continuous surfaces and origin-to-insertion centroidal trajectory data for the muscles of the human shoulder. Part II presents linear trajectory data for the same muscles, in addition to kinematic descriptions of the joints. 'Anatomy' matrices for musculature, which convert muscle forces (as estimated by cutaneously monitored EMG signals) to moments, within a prosthetic arm controller, are developed for both the linear and non-linear (centroidal) data, and then compared. Graphical analyses of the muscle functions are also presented via computer-generated 'circle diagrams'.

Arm↗
PubMed1989

Quantitation of human shoulder anatomy for prosthetic arm control--I. Surface modelling.

Anatomical data and models for the human shoulder musculo-skeletal system are developed with the intent of quantifying physiological subcomponents of a model-based multi-axis prosthetic limb control scheme which has heretofore been implemented empirically. Part I presents the controller formulation, the surface descriptions of the muscles (and bones), and the centroidal trajectory data of the muscles. The data partially quantify the muscle modelling components of the controller, and set the stage for the analysis of the force-to-moment anatomical conversion factors of Part II.

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PubMed1988

Osteological individuality indicative of migrant citrus laboring.

Particular features of a skeleton discovered near Dade City, Florida, are consistent with the stresses of a life of migrant citrus laboring. In particular, unusual aspects of the right shoulder skeleton are not manifested bilaterally. Ethnographic data, radiographs from a living citrus worker, and the police investigation also support the hypothesis that these remains were derived from an individual who spent significant time as a citrus fruit picker.

Agriculture↗