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This proposal addresses the need to develop products which will help participants in health care assquality and level of care furnished to patients. We will develop a prototype ¿Protocol Engine¿, withdesigned for personal computers and computer networks, to allow protocols to be defined and customizspecific needs of the organization; to link and/or access data from other medical software package ...

The project is a videotape and brochure designed to educate and assist men who have recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer. This project is important because it reaches an ever-growing number of patients who are at a critical decision-making juncture regarding their medical treatment options. This informational package will help them make informed treatment decisions by encouraging an on-goi ...

The information produced by the Human Genome Project and related research is expected torevolutionize biology and medicine in general and recombinant DNA technology in particular. At present,however, obtaining patent protection for inventions involving recombinant DNA technology is anacknowledged bottleneck in the development of the U.S. biotechnology industry. While much attentionhas been focused ...

ALCOHOL ABUSE INFLICTS TERRIBLE DAMAGE ON THE ADULT WORKING POPULATION OF THIS COUNTRY AND COSTS INDUSTRY APPROXIMATELY $71 BILLION EACH YEAR, YET THERE ARE VIRTUALLY NO ADVANCED ALCOHOL ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAMS IN INDUSTRY. ISA ASSOCIATES WILL DEVELOP AN ALCOHOL ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR INDUSTRY, BASED ON A SOCIAL LEARNING MODEL AND CAST IN AHEALTH PROMOTION FRAMEWORK. THE PROGRAM WILL BE SU ...

A TREATMENT PROGRAM TO SUCCESSFULLY REVERSE URINARY INCONTINENCE IN MANY OF THE NATION'S 1 MILLION INCONTINENT NURSING HOME PATIENTS HAS RECENTLY BEEN VALIDATED IN EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES. STAFF MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING PROCEDURES HAVE ALSO BEEN EVALUATED DOCUMENTING THAT NURSINGHOMES CAN SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENT THE TREATMENT PROCEDURES WITH EXISTING STAFF RESOURCES. THE ENTIRE INCONTINENCE ASSESSMENT, ...

IN 1985, 900,513 POISONINGS--328 FATALITIES--WERE REPORTED TO THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF POISON CONTROL CENTERS. SIXTY-FOUR PERCENT INVOLVED CHILDREN UNDER AGE SIX. SEVENTEEN PERCENT OF 2,015 PRESCRIPTION DRUG INGESTIONS INVOLVED GRANDPARENTS' DRUGS. RECENT STUDIES HAVE CONFIRMED THAT MANY ELDERLY HAVE TROUBLE OPENING CHILD-PROOFCONTAINERS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO ESTABLISH THE TECHN ...