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P Franck

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PubMed1992

Flow cytometric analysis of the cell cycle in chronic gastritis.

Flow cytometric cell cycle analysis was recorded in gastric biopsy specimens from patients with normal gastric mucosa (GM), superficial gastritis (SG) and chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG). Cell-cycle analysis showed significantly higher percentages of cells in S- and S+G2/M-phase in CAG than in SG and normal GM (P < 0.0001). Moreover, CAG with severe or moderate atrophy showed significantly higher percentages of cells in S-phase (P < 0.05) and S+G2/M-phase (P < 0.02) than CAG with mild atrophy in antrum. In fundus, even if this increase was observed, it did not reach statistical significance. Consideration of concomitant pathologic findings such as oesophagite, gastric or duodenal ulcer, duodenite or benign polyp allowed a better differentiation of CAG both in antrum and in fundus. Significantly higher S-phase was observed in CAG with severe or moderate atrophy than in CAG with mild atrophy (P < 0.05). No statistically significant results were observed in patients with normal gastric mucosa or chronic gastritis and a concomitant pathologic finding.

Cell Cycle↗
PubMed1975

Teaching nursing management by programmed instruction.

Student and faculty dissatisfaction with lectures prompted several revisions of teaching methods for nursing management. Revisions centered around a programmed text for business plus various methods of application to nursing. One part of management (control) was also programmed in nursing terms. Data collected revealed that students who used the programmed business text and participated in small group discussions achieved significantly higher scores than either students who attended lectures or used the programmed business text in conjunction with a tutorial system. Data also demonstrated that students who used the unit programmed specifically for nursing management achieved significantly higher scores than students who used the programmed text for business management. This data suggest students level of achievement is increased when the transfer step from business to nursing is eliminated. For this reason, two faculty members completed the writing of a programmed text for nursing management. This text has been tested over the past two years and will be published in the near future. We were unable to collect objective data regarding the actual application of management principles to nursing practice. Subjectively, we felt the students had a stronger framework of principles unique to nursing management and were able to transfer this knowledge to leading a team with greater ease than previously. Without student dissatisfaction originally, and student acceptance and participation throughout the changes, this study would not have evolved. It was student encouragement which prompted the program specific to nursing.

Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate↗
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A survey of health needs of older adults in northwest Johnson County, Iowa.

In 1975, the 1972 survey by the DuPage County, Illinois, Health Department (Managan et al. 1974) was replicated in an eight-township area of Johnson County, Iowa, to compare and document areas of nursing needs for the nursing division of a rural health center and to determine if the Illinois findings were generalizable to a setting which included both similarities and differences. The DuPage County population was urban, while the Johnson County population had a strong farm background and the majority of the subjects still resided on a farm. The DuPage County sample of 1,466 represented approximately 5 percent of the elderly population. The sample size in the Johnson County study was only 82; however, it represented approximately 10 percent of the elderly in the eight townships of the study area. The method of interviewing in the resident's homes was replicated as was DuPage's method of statistical analysis. Comparison of data from the two counties showed striking similarities in all parameters: health condition, physical functioning accessibility of medical care, social isolation, and service needs. Both studies found need for additional health services. A multiple disciplinary service approach to health needs would assist the elderly to remain in their own homes longer and to improve the quality of their lives. In the Iowa study, four questions to determine satisfaction with present living facilities and with adequacy of income for needed medical and dental costs were added. When these answers were compared to two previous Iowa studies, findings were similar.

Aged↗