"Graying of America" and rising inflation seen by consultant to cloud 1980s health care picture.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Delivery of Health Care↗
Biomedical subjects
C DeWitt
Publications and source records attributed to C DeWitt.
Support team helps patients cope with stress.
Grant Hospital of Chicago recently adopted a new concept in psychiatric support of the physically ill patient. The medical staff believes it has improved hospital-patient relations.
Chicago↗
Hospital administrators face stiff competition in job market.
Career opportunities in health administration will broaden, but the career ladder will be harder to climb, according to the president of the American College of Hospital Administrators.
Career Choice↗
Rat alloantibody responses against strong and weak histocompatibility antigens.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Animals↗
Cytology requisition log-in with a minimum of keyboard entry.
Virtually every cytology laboratory invests considerable staff time in the entry or log-in of specimens into a laboratory information system. In many cases these systems are not optimized for rapid entry of the data. We describe a combination of two techniques (fastkey/macros and bar code) that has enabled us to reduce the number of keystrokes required for cytologic smear accessioning and to improve the overall efficiency of the requisition entry process by 25%. Similar techniques could be used with a wide variety of information systems.
Cytological Techniques↗
Cytology result entry without using the keyboard.
Many keystrokes are needed to enter routine gynecologic cytology results into many computer systems. Not only is this quite time consuming, but typing errors cannot be avoided and are not always detected before the report is sent to the clinician. Because of continuing shortages of staff time and the desire to avoid transcription errors, we began using $400 bar code wands to enter cytology results and billing information. No changes in our laboratory information system software or tables were necessary. Accession number labels are preprinted on a stand-alone printer. Bar code sheets, containing common keystroke sequences, are printed using a standard Macintosh computer and Laserwriter printer. Scanning the bar codes exactly emulates those keystrokes typed on the keyboard. We have entered the results of > 99% of our gynecologic cytology cases in the past two years without touching the keyboard.
Cytological Techniques↗