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Are drug therapies effective in treating Bell's palsy?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2003)
Early use of corticosteroid therapy results in less autonomic synkinesis and possibly improved rates of recovery in adults (strength of recommendation: C); there is no proven benefit in children (SOR: B). Adding acyclovir ...
Do insulin-sensitizing drugs increase ovulation rates for women with PCOS?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2005)
Short-term use of metformin (Glucophage) improves ovulation rates for women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, based on systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials [RCT]). ...
Time to routinely screen for intimate partner violence?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2013)
Use a validated tool to screen women of childbearing age for intimate partner violence (IPV) and follow up with any woman with a positive screen. Stength of recommendation: B: Based on a systematic review of 10 randomized ...
What are the most practical primary care screens for post-traumatic stress disorder?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2009)
The 4-item Primary Care Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder screen (PC-PTSD) is a simple and effective tool to identify symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in primary care patients (strength of recommendation [SOR ...
What is the best surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic carriers of hepatitis B?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2006)
Screening patients with chronic hepatitis B infection (HBsAg+) for hepatocellular carcinoma by alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) or by AFP plus ultrasound (AFP/US) detects hepatocellular carcinoma tumors at earlier stages and increases ...
What is the interval for monitoring warfarin therapy once therapeutic levels are achieved?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2005)
The international normalized ratio (INR) should be measured monthly once therapeutic levels are achieved and are stable for at least 8 weeks, although treatment should be individualized and an increased frequency may be ...
It's time to use an age-based approach to D-dimer
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2014)
Use an age-adjusted D-dimer cutoff (patient's age in years [multiplied by] 10 mcg/L) for patients over age 50 years when evaluating for venous thromboembolism (VTE); it reduces false positives without substantially increasing ...
Organizational Immersion and Diagnosis: The Work of Harry Levinson
(Karnac Books Ltd., 2003)
In the following, I present readers with an overview of Harry Levinson's contributions to psychoanalytic organization psychology. Then, I share excerpts from an interview conducted with him in August 2002 during the American ...
Consumption patterns of Chinese elders: evidence from a survey in Wuhan, China
(2006)
; (2) display more mature consumption attitudes; (3) play a less important role in the family; and (4) have strong desire for compensatory consumption. These findings call for further research into the behavior of older Chinese consumers as a major...
Wealth accumulation differences between wage-earning and entrepreneurial families : the role of active saving behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
that there is a temporal effect of saving behavior among entrepreneurial families as compared with wage earning families. In addition, the proposed hypotheses are tested using PSID family data across a twenty-year horizon, 1984-2003. A "rotating" sampling...
Beyond money : relating local school taxation to family and community risk
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
-driven formulas to student needs, local revenue requirements remain. However, no study has examined the potential links between a family, community and economic risk factors that affect a student's educational opportunity and local taxation choices. This study...
Butterfly gardening: using volunteers to provide data on flower use
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
for 15 minutes from May through September 2002 and 2003. Volunteers observed most of the butterfly species expected in mid-Missouri. In addition to identifying and counting butterflies, they recorded the flowers on which any butterflies landed. Based on a...
Coping and Adapting to Increased Climate Variability in the Andes
(2003-07)
The negative impact of climate change may be reduced with mitigation strategies in developing countries. Some studies project that developing countries in the Tropics will be worse off than developed countries under different ...
Three essays on labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
at the added worker effect in the great recession, the wife's labor market response to a husband loss of job. The second chapter investigates the impact of a wife's labor market participation on family poverty. The third chapter examines employment...
The role of household environment on health outcomes for female adolescents in Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Chronic illness has a profoundly negative impact on the welfare of households, especially for the adolescents who live there. Those who lack a social welfare safety net, particularly youth, are much more dependent on the ...
Understanding the development of low-income marriages : investigating the antecedents and outcomes of marital functioning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
years of marriage. Gender differences emerged, with husbands reporting more stable marital functioning than wives. Guided by the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation model, I also found individual (family-of-origin experiences), dyadic (e.g., perceptions...
A determination of the reliability and construct validity of the Leadership Capacity School Survey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of this quantitative case study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Leadership Capacity School Survey (Lambert, 2003). The Leadership Capacity School Survey (LCSS, Lambert) was electronically administered to 337...
An examination of the impact of a principal's actions on the parent involvement of Latino immigrant parents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
) Awakening to Self-Reliance. The implications of this inquiry for practice in education could impact both K-12 institutions and higher education institutions as they address the issues of diversity in schools, parental involvement, and giving voice...
Exploring the intersections of advocacy, objectivity, and solutions reporting in environmental journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The field of environmental journalism has oscillated between the poles of advocacy and objectivity throughout its evolution. In its beginnings in the 1960s, environmental reporting was often viewed as closely associated with the environmental...
A study on the relationship of death anxiety and the completion of advance directives for oncology social workers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
of the Association of Oncology Social Work completed death anxiety and advance directive communication practices survey instruments. Terror Management Theory and Personal Construct Theory guided the examination of the results. Respondents having more years of work...