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PubMed2001

Reply to "Comment on 'Surface restructuring, kinetic oscillations, and chaos in heterogeneous catalytic reactions' ".

In my numeration, the criticism of my simulations of kinetic oscillations in NO reduction by H2 on Pt(100) [V. P. Zhdanov, Phys. Rev. E 59, 6292 (1999)] by Kuzovkov, Kortlüke, and von Niessen [preceding paper, Phys. Rev. 63, 023101 (2001)] contains 19 comments. I show that four comments are irrelevant. The other 15 comments are wrong, because they either contradict the basic principles of the theory of phase transitions, Monte Carlo simulations, and catalytic chemistry or ignore numerous experimental data on adsorbate-induced restructuring of the Pt(100) surface.

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PubMed2002

Three-systems theory of human visual motion perception: review and update: comment.

This comment addresses two issues raised by Lu and Sperling [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18, 2331 (2001)]. These authors stated that stereomotion (movement of binocular disparity) is processed exclusively by a third-order motion system that involves feature tracking. This comment discusses evidence that clearly shows that stereomotion is processed by a low-level mechanism that does not track features. Lu and Sperling also claimed that motion signals from binocular rivalry have confounded many stereomotion experiments in the past. This comment discusses how stimuli employed in most previous studies of stereomotion processing would not produce rivalry.

Depth Perception↗

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Critical comments made to schizophrenic patients by their families in Japan.

Critical comments (CCs) are one of the components of expressed emotion (EE), an excess of which is related to relapse. Therefore, CCs could be a target of family psychoeducation. We examined the nature of CCs for clues to family therapy. We classified CCs expressed in the Camberwell Family Interview (CFI) into nine categories: (1) positive symptoms, (2) negative symptoms, (3) compliance with medical care, (4) life problems, (5) socially inappropriate behavior, (6) aggression, (7) rejection, (8) premorbid personality, and (9) other. Positive symptoms were the most frequently commented on (34%). Negative symptoms were not so frequently commented on (11%), as expected. In comparing high-EE and low-EE relatives or relapsers and nonrelapsers, there were no significant differences in the distribution of the nine CC categories. We conclude that positive symptoms should be a main topic of family psychoeducation in such cases.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1991

The patient comment card: a system to gather customer feedback.

Continuous patient feedback can give important information to hospitals about the quality of care they provide. The Patient Comment Card (PCC), a brief form that can be used to gather open-ended comments from patients and to measure quality, was developed during a two-year period and was extensively evaluated in a series of three pilot tests involving more than 2,000 patients discharged from five hospitals. Evaluation results demonstrate that the questionnaire elicits useful comments from patients and can generate statistically reliable scores and valid quality measures. However, in a field trial in four hospitals, low response rates (15%-27%) reflected, first, lack of follow-up of non-respondents, and second, the fact that most of the PCC quality scores were upwardly biased; these inflated scores were likely to reflect the low response rate. Tools such as the PCC should be used judiciously, given the possible abuses and misinterpretations of hospital quality scores.

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PubMed1997

The patient comment line. An innovative and unique tool in the evaluation of patient satisfaction.

Evaluation of patient satisfaction is key to continuous quality improvement in the healthcare setting. The authors describe a Patient Comment Line, an innovative and cost-effective method for evaluating patient satisfaction. Designed to elicit, track, and follow up on patients' telephone comments, the methods, results, recommendations, and outcomes of a hospital comment line pilot project are presented.

Costs and Cost Analysis↗

PubMed2000

The effect of comments about shoe construction on impact forces during walking.

UNLABELLED: Comparisons of ground reaction forces (GRF) during gait are not typically conducted with blinding of the varied shoe characteristic, raising concerns related to the existence of a placebo effect, or a subject response based on a perceived expectation of change. PURPOSE: To determine whether investigator comments on shoe construction influenced GRF measures and ratings of shoe cushioning during walking. METHODS: 19 female college students volunteered for a study presented as a test of a new shoe material. The study involved walking (2.5 m x s(-1)) under three shoe conditions (SC). Shoes in SC2 and SC3 were harder than those in SC1, but shoes in SC1 and SC3 looked similar. Subjects in a mislead group (N = 9) were told SC1 and SC3 were baseline measures in a standard shoe, with SC2 misleadingly described as a shoe constructed of unique new material. A control group performed the same three conditions without investigator description. GRF data were collected for 10 trials for each subject in each condition, and subjects rated the perceived cushioning of each shoe. GRF data and perceived cushioning scores were analyzed using mixed-factor (group by shoe) ANOVA. RESULTS: A significant shoe main effect was found for loading rate. Post hoc tests identified the difference between SC1 and both SC2 and SC3. The group main effect was not significant for any dependent variable. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that, as a group, GRF data and cushioning scores are not affected by investigator comments that do not match shoe construction characteristics. However, ratings of perceived shoe cushioning by some individual subjects reflected investigator comments and not the vertical GRF variables.

Adolescent↗

PubMed2000

Reply to comments on "Simple measure for complexity"

We respond to the comment by Crutchfield, Feldman, and Shalizi [Comment in this issue, Phys. Rev. E 62, 2996 (2000)] and that by Binder and Perry [preceding Comment, Phys. Rev. E 62, 2998 (2000)], pointing out that there may be many maximum entropies, and therefore "disorders" and "simple complexities." Which ones are appropriate depend on the questions being addressed. "Disorder" is not restricted to be the ratio of a nonequilibrium entropy to the corresponding equilibrium entropy; therefore, "simple complexity" need not vanish for all equilibrium systems, nor must it be nonvanishing for a nonequilibrium system.

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PubMed1999

Assessing the quality of comments on reports: a retrospective study.

I describe a comparatively simple method for assessing the quality of comments on clinical biochemistry reports. It is based on independent peer review of components of comments, appears reasonably robust and correlates well with separate independent assessment of the value of complete comments. The method gives a numerical score, and thus lends itself to a wide range of statistical manipulations and assessment for education and audit purposes.

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PubMed1995

[The effects of information relevance to speaker vs. hearer on the use of comment expressions and interrogative sentences in the Japanese language].

This study examined how the relevance of information to the speaker and the hearer affected the use of comments and interrogative sentences. Subjects read scenarios and rated the necessity of an expression (Experiment 1) or the naturalness of expressions (Experiment 2) in each of the situations. Experiment 1 investigated the use of comments, which preceded the information, to show the speaker's uncertainty about the information contents (subjects: 138 undergraduates). The less the information was relevant to the speaker and/or the more it was relevant to the hearer, the more the comments were judged to be necessary. Experiment 2 investigated the use of interrogative sentences, declarative sentences, and declarative sentences + a sentence final particle 'ne' (subjects: 96 undergraduates). Interrogative sentences were judged to be the most natural in the conditions where the information was relevant to the hearer and not to the speaker, whereas declarative sentences were judged to be the most natural where the information was relevant to the speaker and not to the hearer. Declarative sentences + 'ne' showed intermediate patterns of use between interrogative sentences and declarative sentences.

Adult↗

PubMed1993

Physician performance standard rates of increase for federal fiscal year 1994 and physician fee schedule update for calendar year 1994--HCFA. Final notice with comment period.

This notice announces the calendar year (CY) 1994 updates to the Medicare physician fee schedule and the Federal fiscal year (FY) 1994 performance standard rates of increase for expenditures and volume of physicians' services under the Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance (Part B) program as required by sections 1848 (d) and (f), respectively, of the Social Security Act. The physician performance standard rates of increase for Federal FY 1994 are 8.6 percent for surgical services, 10.5 percent for primary care services, 9.2 percent for other nonsurgical services, and 9.3 percent for all physicians' services. The fee schedule update for CY 1994 is 10.0 percent for surgical services, 7.9 percent for primary care services, and 5.3 percent for other nonsurgical services. This notice also references the surgical and nonsurgical designations for new and revised procedure codes in the Physicians' Current Procedural Terminology, to be used in applying the CY 1994 updates and for establishing and measuring expenditures under the MVPS for FY 1994. These designations appear in Addendum C of the final rule with comment period entitled "Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies and Adjustments to the Relative Value Units under the Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 1994 (BPD-770-FC)," published elsewhere in this Federal Register issue. The new and revised surgical and nonsurgical designations are subject to public comment. In addition, this notice addresses public comments on the "initial" procedure-specific list of surgical services published in our November 25, 1992, notice.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.↗

PubMed1994

Medicaid program; home and community-based services and respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals--HCFA. Final rule with comment period.

This final rule with comment period expands coverage of Medicaid home and community-based services under the waiver provisions of section 1915(c) of the Social Security Act. This final rule also adds coverage of respiratory care services as an optional benefit under State Medicaid plans. These revisions and additions incorporate changes made by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 and respond to the public comments that we received as a result of the June 1, 1988, publication of a proposed rule. This final rule with comment period also incorporates self-implementing provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, the Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988, and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 concerning home and community-based services, and makes other technical changes not specifically related to these statutes.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.↗

PubMed1997

Mental health parity and newborns' and mothers' health protection--HCFA. Solicitation of comments.

This document is a request for comments regarding issues under the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA) and the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 (NMHPA). The Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services (collectively, the Departments) have received comments from the public on a number of issues arising under both MHPA and NMHPA. Further comments from the public are welcome.

Employee Retirement Income Security Act↗

PubMed1991

Medicare program; update of ambulatory surgical center payment rates and additions to and deletions from the current list of covered surgical procedures--HCFA. Notice with comment period.

This notice implements section 1833(i)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act, which requires that the payment rates for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services be reviewed and updated annually, and responds to the public comment we received concerning the ambulatory surgical center payment rate update notice with comment period published on July 5, 1990 (55 FR 27690). It also implements section 1833(i)(1) of the Social Security Act, which requires, in part, that the list of covered ambulatory surgical center procedures be reviewed and updated at least every 2 years. This notice announces additions to and deletions from the list of surgical procedures for which facility services are covered when the procedures are performed in an ASC. This notice also announces the assignment of payment groups for each procedure and responds to public comments received in response to the notice proposing additions to and deletions from the list of covered surgical procedures that was published on December 7, 1990.

Abstracting and Indexing↗

PubMed1998

Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network--HRSA. Final rule with comment period.

This document sets forth the final rule governing the operation of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), which performs a variety of functions related to organ transplantation under contract with HHS. The document also offers a 60 day period for additional public comment. The rule will become effective 30 days following the close of the comment period. If the Department believes that additional time is required to review the comments, we will consider delaying the effective date. In combination with a new National Organ and Tissue Donation Initiative, this rule is intended to improve the effectiveness and equity of the Nation's transplantation system and to further the purposes of the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, as amended. These purposes include: encouraging organ donation; developing an organ allocation system that functions as much as technologically feasible on a nationwide basis; providing the bases for effective Federal oversight of the OPTN (as well as for implementing related provisions in the Social Security Act); and, providing better information about transplantation to patients, families and health care providers.

Catchment Area, Health↗

PubMed1998

Medicare program; schedules of per-visit and per-beneficiary limitations on home health agency costs for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 1998--HCFA. Notice with comment period.

This notice with comment period sets forth revised schedules of limitations on home health agency costs that may be paid under the Medicare program for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 1998. These limitations replace the limitations that were set forth in our January 2, 1998 notice with comment period (63 FR 89) and our March 31, 1998 final rule with comment period (63 FR 15718).

Budgets↗

PubMed1998

Ryan White Care Act requirement--Secretary's determination on HIV testing of newborns--CDC. Notice and request for comments.

Section 2626 of P.L. 104-146 (42 U.S.C. 300ff-34), the "Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 1996", includes a requirement for the Secretary of HHS to make a determination whether a set of activities prescribed in section 2627 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 300ff-35), have become routine practice in the United states. In making this determination, the Secretary is required to consult with the States and other public or private entities that have knowledge or expertise relevant to the determination. The purpose of this notice is to request comments from States and such other public or private entities with knowledge or expertise relevant to the practice of activities (1) through (4) in section 2627 of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 300ff-35). After consideration of comments submitted the CDC will provide a summary of comments received to the Secretary as part of the process leading to the Secretary's determination required by Section 2626 of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 300ff-34).

AIDS Serodiagnosis↗

PubMed1998

Medicare and Medicaid programs; recognition of the Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities--HCFA. Notice with comment period.

This notice announces and invites comments on the receipt of an application from the Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities for recognition as a national accreditation organization with deemed status authority. The Social Security Act requires us to publish this notice in which we identify the national accreditation body making the application, describe the nature of the request, and provide a 30-day public comment period. The intent of this notice is to solicit public comment as to the advisability of recognizing the Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities as a national accreditation organization with deeming authority to survey and accredit comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities for participation in the Medicare or Medicaid programs.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.↗

PubMed2001

Rethinking maternal sensitivity: mothers' comments on infants' mental processes predict security of attachment at 12 months.

This study investigated predictors of attachment security in a play context using a sample of 71 mothers and their 6-month-old infants. We sought to rethink the concept of maternal sensitivity by focusing on mothers' ability accurately to read the mental states governing infant behaviour. Five categories were devised to assess this ability, four of which were dependent on maternal responses to infant behaviours, such as object-directed activity. The fifth, mothers' Appropriate minded-related comments, assessed individual differences in mothers' proclivity to comment appropriately on their infants' mental states and processes. Higher scores in this fifth category related to a secure attachment relationship at 12 months. Maternal sensitivity and Appropriate mind-related comments were independent predictors of attachment security at 12 months, respectively accounting for 6.5% and 12.7% of its variance. We suggest that these findings are in line with current theorising on internal working models of attachment, and may help to explain security-related differences in mentalising abilities.

Adult↗