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Repeat chronic pain visits reduced from 19 to two.
HealthCare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement; 1/1/2010; 1055 words; ...that we use is very helpful in alerting the staff that the patient may have a pain contract with another physician. We are also able to see easily the number of ED visits and the reason they are coming." Next, Meyer assesses whether the patient is primarily...

Rick Atkinson: from reporter to historian.(Interview)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 1648 words; ...most. When you talk about coalition warfare on a global scale, you find that most of the successful practitioners tend to be able to check their egos at the door. That doesn't mean a general can't be both flamboyant and successful--look at George...

The 'old bus' endures: Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's famous Fokker Southern Cross has pride of place in Brisbane.(RESTORED)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 2055 words; ...impossible. By the following morning, noting how low they were on fuel, Ulm wrote in his log that he doubted they would be able to make Suva. But make it they did, coming down safely on a newly cleared landing strip at 3:50 p.m. on June 5. On the...

Initiative leads to new patient safety center.
HealthCare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement; 1/1/2010; 600 words; ...is not a separate corporation. "Our senior vice president, Chris Clarke, heads it up," says Jolley. "We've also been able to bring on a couple of other staff people, including Darlene Swartz -- who was chief nursing officer at one of the hospitals...

Clinical Briefs in Primary Care.
Internal Medicine Alert; 1/1/2010; 1757 words; ...levels (total and HDL). Additionally, the authors were not able to identify any significant additional CV risk prediction by...simplicity of focusing upon total and HDL cholesterol, and being able to use non-fasting results, may enable clinicians to more...