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D Neuhauser

Publications and source records attributed to D Neuhauser.

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PubMed1984

Viewpoint: away with boring meetings.

Here are some new active power tactics for surviving boring meetings. Coping with meetings should be viewed as one of life's exciting and challenging games.

Congresses as Topic↗
PubMed1984

Hospital closure.

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Health Facilities↗
PubMed1984

Ethics in hospital and health administration.

Until recently, hospital and health administrators had no formal code of ethics, despite growing ethical dilemmas within the field. This essay defines those ethical issues as set forth in the 1941 Joint ACHA-American Hospital Association Committee's code of ethics. The present ACHA Ethics Committee is also described.

American Hospital Association↗
PubMed1983

Prophylactic cholecystectomy or expectant management for silent gallstones. A decision analysis to assess survival.

Decision analysis was done to compare the consequences of prophylactic cholecystectomy with expectant management for silent gallstone disease. Probability values were derived from a study of the natural history of silent gallstone disease, published cholecystectomy mortality rates, and life tables. The two strategies were compared by calculating cumulative numbers of person-years lost for hypothetical cohorts of men and women. Prophylactic cholecystectomy slightly decreases survival. A 30-year-old man choosing prophylactic cholecystectomy instead of expectant management would lose, on average, 4 days of life; a 50-year-old man would lose 18 days. Consideration of monetary costs and discounting further disfavors prophylactic cholecystectomy. Sensitivity analysis shows that differences between the two strategies remain small over a broad range of probability values, both for men and women.

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PubMed1983

DRGs in Jersey.

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Costs and Cost Analysis↗
PubMed1982

Improving physician compliance with preventive medicine guidelines.

Similar general medical outpatient clinics with randomly assigned patients were used to evaluate the effectiveness of a program that was to increase house staff compliance with preventive medicine guidelines. Two clinics were designated experimental and two served as controls. In the experimental clinics, age-specific checklists of all recommended preventive procedures (drawn from the Canadian Task Force report on The Periodic Health Examination and American Cancer Society guidelines) were appended to each patient's chart. In addition, house officers were presented with a series of weekly seminars dealing with issues in screening, as well as the specific recommendations included in the checklist. House officers in all four clinics were tested for their knowledge and attitudes toward the preventive program before and after the intervention. Counts of immunizations and mammograms performed and the total populations eligible for these procedures were determined for all four clinics. As predicted, test scores as well as mammography and immunization rates increased significantly (from 2-40 per cent) in the intervention clinics as compared with controls. We conclude that this intervention was clearly effective in the short run. However, follow-up studies will be necessary to determine whether the desired long-term effect has been achieved.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1982

Careful thinking.

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Diagnosis↗