{"title":"Preventing the risk factors in childhood learning impairment.","authors":"L F Newman, S L Buka","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21256,"journal":{"name":"Rhode Island medical journal","volume":"74 6","pages":"251-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13047101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Should practicing physicians be routinely tested for the AIDS virus?","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21256,"journal":{"name":"Rhode Island medical journal","volume":"74 5","pages":"238-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13018911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elective surgery in older persons.","authors":"S M Aronson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21256,"journal":{"name":"Rhode Island medical journal","volume":"74 5","pages":"201-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13018906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The post-operative care of the older patient: the geriatric and rehabilitation perspective.","authors":"J B Murphy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the population of our nation and our state grows older operative procedures will be performed at increasing rates on older patients. Unique aspects of older persons and the conditions with which they are afflicted place them at high risk for loss of function, medical complications, and surgical complications in the perioperative period. Only by conducting comprehensive preoperative assessments, establishing appropriate goals, maintaining meticulous perioperative care and beginning rehabilitation early will it be possible to reduce these risks and maximize the functional outcome for the older surgical patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":21256,"journal":{"name":"Rhode Island medical journal","volume":"74 5","pages":"211-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13018908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma care for the elderly?","authors":"P R Kenney, E J DeMaria, D S Gann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The enormous consumption of health-care resources by bluntly injured elderly patients can be justified if their outcome after trauma is good. In this series, 89% of injured elderly patients ultimately returned to their homes, either independent of (57%) or dependent on (32%) outside help. Factors contributing to increased mortality in such patients included age, injury severity, and the presence or absence of cardiac and septic complications. A Geriatric Trauma Survival Score (GTSS) was devised that predicted the likelihood of mortality in these patients. Finally, study of reimbursement indicated that Medicare does not adequately reimburse hospitals for the enormous cost of providing elderly trauma care.</p>","PeriodicalId":21256,"journal":{"name":"Rhode Island medical journal","volume":"74 5","pages":"221-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13018909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ethical responsibility of surgeons in conflicts with patients or their surrogates about treatment.","authors":"D W Brock","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21256,"journal":{"name":"Rhode Island medical journal","volume":"74 5","pages":"227-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13018910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surgery in the elderly.","authors":"F J Schaberg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21256,"journal":{"name":"Rhode Island medical journal","volume":"74 5","pages":"205-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13018907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seebert Goldowsky, MD--a prophet in his own land.","authors":"M W Hamolsky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21256,"journal":{"name":"Rhode Island medical journal","volume":"74 4","pages":"153-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13204438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One physician's mission.","authors":"F J Lepreau","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21256,"journal":{"name":"Rhode Island medical journal","volume":"74 4","pages":"179-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13204446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recollections of earlier days.","authors":"J P Eddy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21256,"journal":{"name":"Rhode Island medical journal","volume":"74 4","pages":"157-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13204437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}