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J M Sullivan

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A journal of community. Catholic healthcare providers' presence is necessary to sustain a values-based system.

Catholic healthcare leaders must use all their will and creative imagination to find a way to maintain a significant Catholic presence in healthcare. Catholic healthcare leaders across the nation are acquiring, consolidating, and merging hospitals; forming alliances and networks of integrated services; and bringing together Catholic healthcare systems on a regional and local basis. The next few years are critical for Catholic sponsors of healthcare services. The unique challenge is to pursue the development of a Catholic network that would include a wide range of health, mental health, home care, long-term care, social, and housing services. The key ingredient to making networks happen will be leadership, and I think CHA and sponsors rightly emphasize the need for continuing leadership formation and development of trustees and executives in Catholic healthcare. A united effort by Catholic healthcare providers could have a penetrating influence on the overall development of healthcare in this nation. Now is the time to exercise imaginative leadership; to reach out to the existing Catholic and community-based providers of health and human services; and to create networks that can provide a continuum of accessible, high-quality, values-based, and cost-efficient services.

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Focus groups. Giving voice to people.

The authors used focus groups to evaluate the effectiveness of specific patient teaching tools on patient education outcomes. In addition, data from the focus groups identified both deficiencies in the teaching-education process and ways to improve patient education and self-care outcomes. Negative and positive aspects of using focus groups in outcome measurement are included.

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cAMP activity and isoproterenol-induced myocardial injury in rats.

Isoproterenol-induced myocardial necrosis (ISO-MN) was obviated by the cardioselective beta-blocker, practolol, suggesting that ISO-MN is caused by specific activation of myocardial beta-adrenergic receptors. Because cAMP is the "second messenger" in such activation, enhanced activity of cAMP should aggravate ISO-MN. Pretreatment of rats with bretylium in various amounts, elicited no ill effects but enhanced the effects of ISO on the cAMP activity and also intensified the ISO-induced structural changes in the myocardium.

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Suspected ethanol toxicosis in two wild cedar waxwings.

Several wild cedar waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) fell from a rooftop following ingestion of overwintered hawthorn (Crataegus sp.) pommes. At necropsy, there was pericardial hemorrhage, although no microscopic abnormalities were found. Ethanol was present in crop contents (380 ppm) and in the livers (238 and 989 ppm). The cause of death was attributed to hemorrhage following a fall precipitated by ethanol intoxication.

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