A5051917122- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Ethics in medical practice
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- European and International Law Studies
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Studies
Boston University
1990-2007
Boston Medical Center
1995
University Medical Center
1995
University School
1990
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children
1978-1980
University of Hawaii System
1978
Summary Cytogenetic analysis of 1000 spontaneous abortions showed 463 to have an abnormal chromosome constitution. The proportion abnormalities varied with the gestational age abortus and type tissue cultured but was not significantly different among five racial groups represented in study population. It suggested that differences rate cytogenetic studies were result methodological sample selection rather than real biological variation populations. only factor found be unequivocally...
Summary the data using a maximum‐likelihood method was that 66.4 yo of triploids were result dispermy, 23.6 % fertilization haploid ovum by diploid sperm formed failure first meiotic division in male and 10 egg maternal division. The possible sources error inherent technique me reviewed our results compared with previously published data. This work supported grant from Spencer Foundation, no. 6–47 National Foundation HD 07879 Institutes Health. We are extremely grateful to Miss Shirley Yee...
Summary Cytogenetic results on 234 spontaneous abortions showed 109 (46.6 yo) to have a chromosome abnormality. The were analysed separately for the four major ethnic groups of which population was composed and no differences in proportion or types abnormalities seen. this survey found be very similar other published surveys it therefore appears, present evidence, that neither geographic location nor racial group affects frequency seen among human abortions. sex ratio chromosomally normal...
In 1977, Massachusetts implemented a requirement that Medicaid recipients obtain second surgical opinion before elective surgery. Using consultants' reports and surveys, we assessed the initial year's results in metropolitan Boston. Of 2060 patients originally advised to undergo one of eight procedures, 1591 (77.2 per cent) participated mandatory second-opinion consultation program, 10.5 cent received approval for surgery without because clear indications such as cancer, 12.3 did not keep or...
Physicians believe that professional liability is one of the most severe problems they face today. This has been confirmed by surveys conducted American Medical Association, College Surgeons, and state medical societies.1 2 3 At a time when scientific technical quality America's care considered to be at its zenith, pressuring physicians make decisions affect cost adversely.4 meeting Cancer Society in March 1986, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., then director National Institute, estimated .