... and Follow-Up Services for Indigent Patients. Journal— South Car- olina Medical Association 87:98–99. Shickle, D., and R. Chadwick. 1994. The Ethics of Screening: Is “Screeningitis” an Incurable Disease? Journal of Medical Ethics 20:12–18...

... Violence in Schools: The Case for Entry-Based Weapons Screening Anthony R. Mawson Jackson State University...

.... Commentary Is a Weapons-Screening Strategy for Public Schools Good Public Policy? Jackson Toby Rutgers University As Professor Ronald V. Clarke of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice points...

...James Warner Björkman Okma Kieke G. H. and Crivelli Luca , eds. Six Countries, Six Reform Models: The Healthcare Reform / Experience of Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan — Healthcare Reforms “Under the Radar Screen.” Singapore : World Scientific...

... International Conference on Marine Debris, Honolulu. A Blip on the Radar Screen: Formulation and Implementation of the Medical Waste Tracking Act Robert T. Nakamura...

... markets. Volume bargaining in the pharmaceutical supply chain and asset managers’ common ownership of pharmaceutical firms further complicate the definitional process. Hence, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), one measure used by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to screen...

..., mass screening, and safety regulation all became widely accepted strategies for improving health and reducing medical expenditures. By the mid-1980s, the dark side of each strategy became visible. Vaccinations can cause serious and permanent injuries; lifestyle factors are being used to raise insurance...

... and several liability doctrine, mandatory pretrial screening, and statute of limitations) and two government-sponsored insurance mechanisms (joint underwriting associations and patient compensation funds). Claims defense expenses are found to be higher in the presence of noneconomic damage caps, punitive...

... successfully for the right to screen applicants for HIV. Next, when a study of San Francisco AIDS patients found local hospital costs per case to be $27, 571, many concluded that billions of dollars could be saved if the “San Francisco model” of care (emphasizing home and community-based services and case...

... and by focusing on four cases: HMO performance measurement, nursing home regulation, lead screening for children,and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). JHPPL 26.3-05 Gormley 5/3/01 5:19 PM Page 557 HCFA and the States: Politics...

...Uri Aviram; Robert A. Weyer In this article, we discuss changing trends of mental health legislation in the United States using a case study of the process of reforming the civil commitment law in New Jersey. That state’s new commitment law, commonly called the “screening law,” was enacted after...

..., those offering completely prepaid LTC coverage reduced use of nursing home care by 13 percent and personal care by 5 percent. CCRCs with prepaid LTC coverage did not use more stringent health screening at entry, so “cream-skimming” does not appear to explain this result. However, affordability...

... is authorized. Prepayment review is an automated process, where carriers develop treatment parameters and then design computer programs, called screens, so that if a submitted claim is outside of the treatment parameter the computer will flag the claim as an indication of “unnecessary” care. When...

... which locations or access points should offer services. Unfortunately, a search of the hypertension literature provides few clues to the compara- tive effectiveness of hypertension screening at commonly used access points. In general, previous research has not been oriented...

.... 2011 ; Berg, Khoury, and Evans 2011 ; Khoury et al. 2007 ; Rosenkotter et al. 2009 ; Simonds et al. 2013 ; Veenstra et al. 2010 ). Commentators argue about the level of evidence required to demonstrate these features, but WGS as a routine screening tool arguably has not demonstrated any of them...

... Research Institute, and NIH Office of Rare Diseases Research “Newborn Screening in the Genomic Era: Setting a Research Agenda.” Meeting Summary 2010 December 13–14 Rockville, MD https://www.genome.gov/Pages/PolicyEthics/StaffArticles/Newborn_Screening_Meeting_Summary.pdf for US Congressional...

... of the physical, dental and mental health statuses and needs of the study children.' Each assessment included a complete and careful medical history and a physical examina- tion; vision, audiometric, dental screening tests and a laboratory work- up, a developmental examination for infants...

... and important contribution to the literature of policy implementation. Gog- gin has developed a sophisticated three-stage research design to study the imple- mentation of child health screening and treatment programs in the United States. He clearly and elegantly explicates each step of his research...

... the development of genetic approaches to human problems. He discusses, appropriately, discredited theories of eugenics and racial purity and controversial theories of achievement (e.g., race and IQ), but his focus is clearly on the social implications of screening for inherited genetic disorders...