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R W Brooks

Publications and source records attributed to R W Brooks.

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PubMed1999

Using an intranet for physician desk top data consolidation.

Kaleida Health developed one of the first web-based information delivery systems specific to patient care. Through an Intranet or secure dial-up connection, registered practitioners and staff access patient demographics, laboratory data, radiology results, and dictated reports. Additionally, standard forms, patient educational material, and other management information are available. The development team designed and wrote interfaces to existing systems and applications, designed security systems, instituted usage policies and procedures, and developed a name and logo. Since the program's launch in February of 1997, more than 800 users have been registered both in-house and off-site.

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed1987

The bedfast.

Many geriatric beds are occupied by bedfast patients. Most were immobile from the time of admission and many were admitted from other hospital departments or residential care. More are discharged home than remain in hospital or are transferred to any other institution. Although a small minority of admissions become long-term bedfast inpatients this group require a disproportionate resource commitment. Reduction in the number of bedfast inpatients is more likely to be effected by changes in unit policy than by improvement in clinical practice.

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PubMed1984

Recovery and survival of nontuberculous mycobacteria under various growth and decontamination conditions.

The survival of microorganisms of the Mycobacterium avium, M. intracellulare, and M. scrofulaceum (MAIS) complex was evaluated after various soil and water decontamination regimens. Survival was reduced by growing cells in natural waters compared with laboratory media and by inclusion of malachite green in media as an antifungal agent. Decontamination with benzalkonium chloride, while reducing survival significantly less than 1% NaOH, failed to eliminate many fungi. Recovery from soil was further reduced by transfer losses and by irreversible cell adsorption onto particulates.

Decontamination↗
PubMed1984

Epidemiology of infection by nontuberculous mycobacteria. V. Numbers in eastern United States soils and correlation with soil characteristics.

Organisms of the Mycobacterium avium, M. intracellulare, and M. scrofulaceum (MAIS) group were recovered in significant numbers from 63 soil samples collected from the floodplains of 4 major rivers in the eastern United States: Hudson (NY), James (VA), Savannah (GA, SC), and Tombigbee (AL, MS). The mean numbers of M. avium-intracellulare, M. scrofulaceum, and MAIS-intermediate biovars recovered increased significantly from the Hudson to the James to the Tombigbee and Savannah soil samples, agreeing reasonably well with previous findings on MAIS distribution in eastern U.S. waters and with the geographic distribution of naval recruits reacting to PPD-B and PPD-G, which is higher in the southeastern United States. From the Savannah and Tombigbee rivers, soils were collected throughout their lengths. The number of total MAIS and biovars recovered from the different soil sites varied widely and showed no obvious trends. However, statistical analysis revealed a highly significant correlation between high numbers of MAIS recovered and high acidity of the soils. Other soil characteristics, such as high total organic matter, high conductivity, and reduced moisture, were only weakly, if at all, correlated with high MAIS numbers. Whereas the general distribution of MAIS in these soils of the Northeast (NY), mid-Atlantic (VA), and Southeast (GA, SC, AL, and MS) might explain the geographic distribution of the naval recruits reacting to PPD-B and PPD-G, the distribution of MAIS in soils along the stretches of the 2 southeastern rivers was not correlated with the county-by-county frequency of PPD-B reactive naval recruits in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi.

Humans↗