PURPOSE Observational studies that collect patient-level survey data at the point-of-care
are often called card studies. Card studies have been used to describe clinical problems, …

OBJECTIVE—Hypertension increases micro- and macrovascular complications of diabetes.
The goal for blood pressure is <130/80 mmHg. In primary care, however, blood pressure in …

Context: Barriers to providing optimal palliative care in rural communities are not well understood.
Purpose: To identify health care personnel’s perceptions of the care provided to dying …

Objective: The aim of this study was to learn about community members’ definitions and
types of harm from medical mistakes. Methods: Mixed methods study using community-based …

PURPOSE The Acute Cardiac Ischemia Time-Insensitive Predictive Instrument (ACI-TIPI) has
been shown to improve diagnostic accuracy of acute cardiac ischemia (ACI) and decrease …

Sensorimotor activity is important to the processes by which infants acquire knowledge from
the environment. In this study, infants' reaching behavior to moving objects in the light and …

ContextThe coordinating function of primary care is information-intensive and may be
impeded by missing clinical information. However, missing clinical information has not been …

… The most relevant finding was the identification of an M-like protein comparable to that shown
by Rebecca Lancefield in S. pyogenes (group A streptococci, GAS) (Robinson and Kehoe, …

… Dr Vorst worked in industry for three major packaging companies … Dr Vorst has over 70
publications and 12 published or … Dr Vorst has done extensive work in method development for …

Purpose To compare manual measurements of diameter, volume, and mass of pulmonary
ground-glass nodules (GGNs) to establish which method is best for identifying malignant …