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H Sorgatz

Publications and source records attributed to H Sorgatz.

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[The health care structure law as a political public health reform in ambulatory and day surgery].

The statutory opening of hospitals for ambulatory surgery can't without more ado be derived from the health-care reform which came into force on the 1st of January 1993. From the genesis of this reform it can be understood that the field of ambulatory surgery has been integrated just shortly before its legislation into the outlines of the health-care reform. As a consequence the hospitals are obliged to follow the principle "ambulatory before stationary" even in the stationary field. In this way the strict separation between the two fields (ambulatory and stationary) will be overcome to a great extent. Taking into consideration the further changes brought by the health-care reform in the stationary field new ranges of action for hospitals, with their chances but also their risks, have to be expected.

Ambulatory Surgical Procedures

Components of skin impedance level.

Eighty students were trained on a maze-like ballboard over a series of 24 trials, while the skin impedance level was recorded from the palmar and dorsal sides of their fingers. A principal component analysis of the cross-products for the palmar and dorsal data treated separately resulted in two components for the palmar data (55% and 25% of variance) and one component for the dorsal data (80% of variance) and thus supported Edelberg's findings.

Analysis of Variance

Memory and electro-dermal activity.

To test Levonian's retentivity-accessibility hypothesis on arousal and retention 48 undergraduates participated in an experiment on retention while skin resistance was recorded. Results support Levonian's hypothesis only for longer-term (30-min.) retention but not for short-tem (3-min.) retention.

Arousal

Convergent and discriminant relationships between factor matrices of motor performance and arousal data.

An experimental study was conducted to demonstrate the value of a procedure for analyzing motor performance data. A sample of 156 subjects practiced on two instruments for motor learning while arousal data were recorded. Each set of data was submitted to an analysis of principal components and four components resulted for each set of data. Similarity coefficients were calculated for pairs of component matrices after rotation to maximum similarity. The similarity coefficients exhibit a consistent pattern which provides meaningful information concerning influence of experimental conditions on performance data.

Adult