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PubMed1990

How to write an RFP for automated systems.

There is no absolute formula for writing a good RFP. But materiel managers who want to utilize an RFP to facilitate selection of an automated system should: Plan and create the RFP with the cooperation of others. Direct the RFP only to vendors who survive an initial telephone screening. Clearly organize the document. Try to use questions that seek structured responses. Include all relevant information about the hospital the vendor will need to provide a meaningful response. Keep it simple. Be inclusive yet succinct. Use the RFP as a supplement to, not substitution for, communication with prospective vendors.

Competitive Bidding↗
PubMed1991

Consumers to help write W. Va. 'no frills' plan.

West Virginia law gives the state insurance commissioner authority to write a "no-frills" insurance plan available to all residents through commercial insurers. The commissioner is enlisting the help of small businesses, the primary purchasers, to identify what benefits they want and how much they can afford to pay.

Commerce↗
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Zeroing in on write-offs.

Although collection activities had been successful at the Diagnostic Clinic of Houston, the medical group felt the need to maximize the efficiency of the collections department by focusing on the procedures involved in writing off accounts. Once the group had identified problem areas in this procedure, it engaged in an evaluation process that involved establishing goals, appraising the system, and analyzing the elements of the procedure. A recommendation was made to and accepted by the group's board of directors concerning alleviating problem areas. The result was a most favorable cash position and the ability to accurately measure collection effectiveness.

Accounting↗
PubMed1994

How to Write a Scientific Paper and Get if Published.

Despite the high expectation for publication of medical articles, many medical students do not receive as much guidance in writing papers as was once the case. The authors discuss the major priorities in targeting a specific journal and preparing a manuscript that requires minimal revision.

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PubMed1994

Grant Writing: A Three-Step Process.

Drawing on seminar presentations and interviews with foundation representatives, grant writers, and a federal grant reviewer, the author provides an overview of the grant-writing process from conceptualization to submission.

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PubMed1999

Writing a group practice business plan.

A business plan offers group practices a blueprint to accomplish a variety of goals, such as securing capital, marketing the practice's services, recruiting new employees, developing a strategic plan or a budget, or planning for growth. A business plan should be informative, specific, and visionary. Elements that every business plan should address are a mission statement, strategy, planning, management information, and action scheme. A business plan should include certain information in a prescribed order. By writing a realistic business plan, group practices can work more efficiently and minimize the risk of not meeting their financial projections.

Fee Schedules↗
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Writing impairment in schizophasia: two case studies.

Two case studies were conducted of patients suffering from paranoid schizophrenia with glossomanic schizophasia. Their dictation-taking performance was assessed via a comprehensive standardized neuropsychological test battery following a protocol specifically designed for the purpose (Lecours, 1996.). The patients' performance was compared with normative data from the general population. The results show that the patients committed graphemic paragraphias, that is, they replaced target graphemes with others representative of the corresponding phoneme (ph and f for/f/, in French) or with graphemes representative of a similar phoneme (v for/f/). These errors suggest that components of a cognitive model of writing are dysfunctional.

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Writing and rewriting numerals: a dissociation within the transcoding processes.

In the present study we report the case of A.B., a patient with a specific, though not isolated, deficit in transcoding verbal to Arabic numerals. Despite perfect production of Arabic numerals in a writing to dictation task, she frequently produced syntactic errors when the input was in written verbal form (e.g., duecentotrenta [two hundred and thirty] --> 20030). In absence of problems in the verbal comprehension system, A.B.'s performance is difficult to accommodate within current models of number processing. In the attempt to interpret the present findings, we suggest that different numerical codes, i.e, spoken and written verbal numerals, activate with different efficiency the transcoding algorithm.

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[Study of higher brain function in first grade students and its relationship with reading and writing acquisition].

INTRODUCTION: The study of higher cortical functions gives valuable information and new insights in the understanding of the complex functioning of the central nervous system. Developmental neurological examination is an important semiologic tool in the evaluation of cortical functions. OBJECTIVE: The main of this study was to evaluate, using the neurological developmental exam, cortical functions and their association with learning. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This was an observational, analytic and transversal study with a random and proportional sample (484 children) of first grade students of Porto Alegre, Brazil. Chi-square and ANOVA tests were used, with a significant p value < 0.05. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Results show that altered neurologic performance disturbs reading and writing acquisition. This study, showed an association between altered neurological developmental examination and WISC subtests (numbers, figure completion and code), with learning disorders.

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PubMed2000

[New study on the history of anesthesiology (2)--who is the first Japanese to write a scientific paper for the journal "Anesthesiology"?].

The beginning of modern anesthesiology in Japan dates back to 1950 when Dr M. Saklad of Rhode Island Hospital came to Japan to give his lectures on endotracheal anesthesia and related procedures. Since then, many Japanese surgeons visited the United States to learn anesthesiology in depth and they began to write their papers for foreign journals. According to my survey of the journal "Anesthesiology" from Vol 1 (1940) through Vol 21 (1960), I found 12 scientific papers written by Japanese. The first paper by Japanese appeared in this journal published in 1955 entitled as "Observations on the action of thiopental (Pentothal) on the laryngeal reflex" by Akira Horita et al. He was born in the United States in 1928 as a son of Japanese immigrants. He was graduated from the University of Washington at Seattle to become professor or pharmacology. The first paper based on studies performed in Japan by Japanese authors appeared in 1956. It was entitled as "The spread of drugs used for spinal anesthesia" by Kitahara et al. This paper is the English translation of their Japanese paper which appeared in Nippon Rinsho Geka Ikai Zasshi entitled as "Basic Study on Spinal Anesthesia in 1953".

Anesthesiology↗
PubMed2000

From lesion to metaphor: chronic pain in British, French and German medical writings, 1800-1914.

This is the first monograph devoted to the history of chronic pain. A novel methodology is used. Examining responses to a problem that remained stable over time anchors a survey of shifting terms and theories and leaves the historical invariance of the clinical syndrome open to textual research. Writings by medical authors from a wide range of professional backgrounds are examined including surgeons, physicians, psychiatrists, neurophysiologists, neurologists and psychoanalysts. Early responses to the problem of chronic pain without structural lesion were the appearance of neuralgia, a neuro-anatomical rewriting of traditional sympathies, extension of the concept of lesion to embrace disturbance of function and appeals to cenesthesis. Later in the century distinctions were drawn between hysterical and neuralgic pain, and between ideogenic, psychogenic and neurogenic pain. Some argued for the physiological equivalence of chronic pain and melancholia, while pain was central to Freud's original notion of conversion. This evidence of continuous discussion of lesionless pain throughout the century challenges the orthodox historical view that the rise of neuroscience meant such pain was simply dismissed as imaginary. The historical invariance of a syndrome of chronic pain without lesion speaks against histories of lesionless syndromes premised on social constructionism. The historical findings are relevant to contemporary debates about the nosology and nature of chronic pain.

Chronic Disease↗
PubMed2000

GP selection of postgraduate education courses has implications for colleagues: messages for course providers and for those writing practice professional development plans.

BACKGROUND: The Department of Health's review of continuing professional development in general practice advocates setting team and individual goals. AIM: To explore how general practitioners (GPs) share learning experiences with colleagues, focusing on how GPs choose courses as one factor influencing sharing. METHOD: Interviews were conducted with 21 GPs using grounded theory methodology. The responses were coded by six researchers from psychology, education, and general practice. RESULTS: Much sharing with colleagues took place, though not always immediately following a course. GP explanations revealed four reasons for course selection that influenced the degree of sharing: 1. Attendance to meet group needs encouraged rapid sharing and could involve course attendance with colleagues. 2. Attendance to enhance 'special interests' could either encourage or inhibit sharing. 3. Attendance in pursuit of 'personal interests' peripheral to general practice did not result in sharing within the primary care team. 4. Attendance to meet personal learning needs did not involve sharing when needs were not currently shared with colleagues. CONCLUSION: Course selection and subsequent sharing have implications for course providers and those writing personal and practice professional development plans.

Curriculum↗
PubMed1999

Writing for publication: Part III--References.

Although a literature search is performed when first identifying your subject, the reference list is not generated until you are actually doing your research for the article. This part of "Writing for Publication" will address references and citations within the text.

Authorship↗
PubMed1999

The effects of traumatic disclosure on physical and mental health: the values of writing and talking about upsetting events.

Directly and indirectly, sudden life transitions can profoundly influence people's social, family, physical, and psychological lives. One traditional goal within psychology has been to understand and develop ways by which to reduce the adverse impact of individual and collective traumas. Four major issues surrounding coping with emotional upheavals are discussed in the current paper. The first concerns the natural sequence of coping that occurs in most disasters. The second focuses on the advantages of talking about upsetting experiences and, conversely, the dangers of not talking about emotional upheavals. The third section, which has been central to our lab's approach, deals with evidence that writing about upsetting experiences is beneficial to health and well-being. The final part of the paper discusses these findings within the context of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) debriefing strategies.

Crisis Intervention↗
PubMed2000

["Perhaps, the night, I cry while I write": strategies for survival of p.v.p. patients].

The history of modern psychiatry has been written by people who have made a career of studying the world of mental health. Especially since the 1960s, many historians, journalists, sociologists and psychiatrists have described and analysed the contradictions of this new science and its applications to specific clienteles. What about psychiatric survivors themselves? How do they view their experience? What is their opinion of the care they have received? Few studies have looked at their written version of psychiatry. This article explores some of the writings signed by survivors of psychiatry to determine how they assess their experience. For this exploratory study, 5 sources are looked at: 1 in Ontario, 2 in Quebec, 1 in New Brunswick and 1 on the World Wide Web. The author stresses the potential of these "voices of experience" and the unique abilities of the victims of psychiatry to describe and analyse the oppression they have been through.

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PubMed1995

[The scientific conceptualization of the female being. Metaphoric use in Galen's writings].

This article, a gender study of the writings of Galen, aims to investigate the reasons for the sustained claims of the inferiority of feminine nature with respect to masculine nature. We offer a reconstruction of the social values held by Galen, which conferred to him an androcentric model of knowledge that differed from the other scientific forms in existence at that time. We show that descriptions of the female organism are assiduously associated with maleness or nature, which we interpret as a metaphorical and exemplifying use for the transmission of ethical norms, and the credibility of the doctrine.

Female↗
PubMed1997

[On the life, works and writings of Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente].

An outline is presented of the biography, works and writings of Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente. During his long career as professor in the University of Padua (1565-1613), he brought at its splendor the time honored tradition of the local anatomical school, both as a teacher and as a scientist. His major contributions (among which are his pitture colorate d'anatomia, embriological studies, description of the venous valves, establishment of the first permanent anatomical amphitheater) are briefly commented upon.

Anatomy↗