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L Glickman

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PubMed1992

Follow-up study of owner attitudes toward home care of paraplegic dogs.

A questionnaire was mailed to 30 owners of paraplegic dogs who had been caring for their dogs at home for 3 to 72 months. It was designed to collect information on demographic variables, duration of ownership and paralysis, age of the pet, pet/owner relationship, owner expectations and perceptions of the pet's quality of life, problems the pet experienced, effect that maintaining a paralyzed pet had on the owners' quality of life, and whether use of a cart was beneficial. Significant correlation was found between prior expectations that the pet would lead a high-quality life and perception that the pet, in fact, had a high quality of life during paralysis (r2 = 0.61, P = 0.01). Owners who had anticipated that extra work would be necessary to care for their paraplegic dog had a more positive attitude toward home care (r2 = 0.55, P = 0.03). Overall, owners involved in the study were satisfied with all aspects of maintaining paraplegic dogs at home. Our findings support the feasibility of dedicated owners successfully maintaining small (average body weight, 9 kg) paraplegic dogs at home for extended periods.

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PubMed1991

Reasons for requests for evaluation of competency in a municipal general hospital.

During the period from July through September 1989, 380 referrals to a psychiatry consultation-liaison service were reviewed. Of these patients, 25% were referred for a determination of competency, despite the fact that they often showed no evidence of mental illness. Seventy-five percent of the patients were found to be competent. Fear of medical legal consequences, physician's anxiety, lack of understanding of the rights of patients to refuse treatment, and a misunderstanding of the physician's duty when presented with such refusal seem to be the reasons for the large number of referrals.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1991

The measurement of cold sensitivity of the hand.

There is no widely accepted method of measuring the severity of cold sensitivity of the hand. A patient-answered questionnaire was developed. This consisted of seven items divided into two subscales: the first to measure the severity of cold sensitivity, and the second to grade exposure of the hands to cold at the workplace. The test-retest reliability was 0.92 for the severity subscale and 0.94 for the work exposure scale. An initial test of validity supports the use of the scale to measure cold sensitivity of the hand.

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PubMed1990

Fall-off in reporting life events: effects of life change, desirability, and anticipation.

The influence of event characteristics on recall was examined by directly comparing fall-off in reporting life events as a function of life change, desirability, and anticipation. We collected information from a sample of 1,669 blue-collar workers on stressful life events that occurred in a 1-year interval before the questionnaire was administered. The results indicated no fall-off in reporting events associated with marked life changes (ie, salient events). In contrast, significant fall-off was observed for events characterized by varying degrees of desirability and anticipation. Although ratings of desirability and saliency were not independent, saliency of life events emerged as the dimension most closely associated with accuracy of event reporting. Research on the reliability of measures of life events and the association between event characteristics and illness should consider the kinds of systematic reporting differences observed here.

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PubMed1979

Toxocara-specific antibody in the serum and aqueous humor of a patient with presumed ocular and visceral toxocariasis.

Rarely have concurrent ocular and systemic toxocariasis been reported in the literature. We describe a patient with serologically proven visceral toxocariasis who had a granulomatous lesion in the iris, small rod-like lesions in the retina, and in whom Toxocara-specific antibodies were also demonstrated in the aqueous humor. Two older siblings of this patient also had demonstrable serum antibody to Toxocara. The ocular manifestations resolved rapidly with corticosteroid and thiabendazole therapy and the initial leucocytosis, hepatomegaly, and elevated IgM level were normal at 3.5 months. These changes might be attributed to either the thiabendazole and prednisone therapy or to the natural history of this disease.

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PubMed1978

Evaluation of serodiagnostic tests for visceral larva migrans.

Four serologic techniques for the diagnosis of visceral larva migrans caused by Toxocara canis, namely indirect hemagglutination (IHA), bentonite flocculation (BF), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and double diffusion in agar (Ouchterlony), were evaluated using sera sent to the Center for Disease Control from patients with a presumptive diagnosis of visceral larva migrans (VLM). Patients having 5-6 of the clinical or laboratory criteria for VLM were designated as cases while those with 0-2 criteria served as controls. The sensitivity of the ELISA was 78.3% compared to 18.2%, 25.8% and 65.2% for the IHA, BF, and Ouchterlony, respectively; the sepcificity of all four tests was greater than 92%. The predivtive value of positive test was greater than 85% for all tests except the IHA, while the predictive value of a negative test was greater than 85% only for the ELISA. The results of a ELISA were reproducible in different laboratories. Based on these findings, the ELISA using a larval antigen appears to be the serodiagnostic method of choice for VLM.

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