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With a combination of local borough funds, state grant funds, and fees for service, the Mat-Su Borough has developed a modern, state-of-the-art EMS system, utilizing volunteers, which responded to over 2200 emergency calls in 1987, a 56% increase in calls over 1983. As a result, citizens and visitors in the Mat-Su Borough have a much better chance of surviving a medical emergency than they did a few short years ago.
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Traumatic head and spinal cord injuries (SCI) are serious events, often leading to severe disability or death. Because these injuries are experienced most often by younger, more active people, they are associated with some of the most enduring physical, emotional, and financial costs. In order to describe several demographic and epidemiologic characteristics of traumatic head and spinal cord injuries in Alaska, a retrospective study was conducted using information collected from the Alaska Trauma Registry (ATR) for hospital trauma admissions in 1991 through 1993. Hospitalized traumatic head injury were identified in 2178 cases, for an average annual incidence rate of 129.5 per 100,000 population. For hospitalized traumatic SCI, 139 cases were identified, for an average annual incidence rate of 8.3 per 100,000 population. To analyze and assess the incidence of these injuries in Alaska, the following injury characteristics were explored through the Alaska Trauma Registry: demographics, mechanism of injury, work relatedness, use of safety equipment, involvement of alcohol, and discharge status.
BACKGROUND: Mail and the telephone are common communication links between departments of family medicine and their community-based preceptors. The availability of low-cost fax/modem boards offers the potential for new communication methods. This study compares the cost of personal computer-based fax/modem board communications with traditional mail and telephone linkages. METHODS: The department's community preceptor faculty served as the study population. Sixty-eight physicians (54%) had fax machines; these physicians received faxes instead of mailed communications. The remaining 59 physicians (46%) received mailed communications. All preceptors received standard telephone calls. Costs for telephone, mail, and fax/modem board communications were tracked over a 4-month period. RESULTS: Faxes were significantly less expensive and more efficient than either telephone or mail communications. Telephone communications were the most expensive. CONCLUSIONS: The study suggests that fax/modem boards offer a communication linkage with preceptors that is more economical than either mail or telephone.