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R L Goldstein

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PubMed1980

Credibility and incredibility: the psychiatric examination of the complaining witness.

Psychiatrists are called on to evaluate the credibility (and incredibility) of complaining witnesses in criminal proceedings despite a longstanding controversy about their ability to accurately make such determinations. The author discusses the history of such psychiatric activity from Freud through the Alger Hiss prejury trial, its current status in terms of benefits to the criminal justice system, the legal and social questions it raises (e.g., the competing issue of the complainant's right to privacy), andthe court's restrictions on the psychiatrists. He presents two illustrative case histories.

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PubMed1975

Data for peer review: acquisition and use. Results in the experimental medical care review organization program.

Nine Experimental Medical Care Review Organizations (EMCROs) review the process and outcome of medical care, using insurance billing claims or medical record abstracts as the data source. The cost of EMCRO insurance billing claims processing in 1972, including peer review, ranged from $0.47 to $2.50 per claim. Three EMCROs reviewed the necessity for elective hospital admission prospectively for $2.50, $8.50, and $10.02 per case. The EMCROs developed innovative methods for abstracting hospital, nursing home, and ambulatory medical records at a cost of $0.40 to $4.00 per abstract. These EMCRO cost estimates were not derived from uniform accounting methods. Problems of accuracy and comparability of data for peer review are discussed. The EMCRO experience may aid local implementation of Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs).

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The automatic call distributor: one answer to appointment-making problems.

This case study addresses one problem brought on by a significant increase in patient volume: the inability of appointment desk clerks to answer the telephone within a reasonable amount of time. In response to mounting complaints from both patients and clinic staff, conversion to a computerized appointment system was undertaken. However, when the conversion led to no immediate relief of the problems at hand, an automatic call distributor was installed. Though this experience in instituting two new systems simultaneously was not without its problems, it did prove successful in effectively smoothing clinic operations.

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