Investigated functional competency to make informed decisions by elderly depressed and cognitively impaired psychiatric patients. Although depressed elderly patients did not appear to experience problems in informed consent process, cognitively impaired patients had difficulty understanding important aspects of consent information. Suggests that…

Studied neuropsychological and life-quality changes six months after carotid endarterectomy, superficial temporal artery to middle cerebral artery bypass, multiple revascularization, and vertebrobasilar revascularization procedures. Compared changes with those in patients with recent severe spinal complaints and in patients for whom…

This symposium is comprised of an introduction and four papers on aspects of amateur wrestling. Discussed are medical problems of wrestlers, basic conditioning principles for high school wrestlers, the role of the physician in advising wrestlers about nutrition, and safe weight-loss practices for wrestlers. (MT)

The author discusses future trends for society and relates them to future roles and characteristics of nursing. She presents strategies that nursing professionals should use to be prepared for the stated trends. (CH)

This article provides a brief overview of basic types of genetic disorders and how they are manifested in children with particular emphasis on facial deformities that early childhood special educators see in the classroom. Service delivery networks for genetic screening are described as well as sources of family support groups. (Author)

During the 1982-83 academic year, 10 members of the College of Health Deans participated in a five-round Delphi study to identify objectives for schools of the allied health professions and trends in health and health care through the year 1991. Results of this study are reported and discussed. (Author/CT)

To estimate perceived prestige and status attributed to rehabilitation counselors in medical settings 104 physical therapists and occupational therapists compared the social standing of rehabilitation counselors with that of other allied health professionals. Rehabilitation counselors ranked below several other occupational groups, including…

Understanding student problems regarding specialty choice may better be served by studying the decision-making process that produces a specialty choice. The difficulties that impede choice and reduce student certainty about choices made were investigated. (Author/MLW)

Compared Anxiety Management Training (AMT) and Relaxation as Self-Control (RSC) in reducing stress in 55 anxious medical outpatients. At posttreatment and follow-up assessments, both AMT and RSC groups reported significantly less anxiety, stress reactivity, general physiological arousal, depression, and anger than controls. (JAC)

The Medicare prospective payment system does not adequately account for severity of illness. Whether teaching hospitals treat a case mix of patients with more severe illness than do nonteaching hospitals was tested in a study using two severity measures, Horn's severity of illness index and Gonnnella's "disease staging." (Author/MLW)

Responses of 423 freshmen and 410 seniors at Jefferson Medical College to 15 questions on economic aspects of health care were compared. A majority of students considered major problems to be costs of medical care and medical education, malpractice claims, and patients' failure to assume responsibility for their health. (Author/SW)

Changes in how society thinks about health include holistic and self-actualizing approaches, community development solutions to health problems, national health problems, national health-promoting policy, renewed interest in the environment, and new roles for health professionals in reforming systems of health care and awareness. (SK)

An interview with parents of a child with cerebral palsy recount their struggles to find a diagnosis and treatment for their daughter and express their anger over the lack of information and help they were given by professionals. They emphasize the need for honesty and straightforwardness in professionals dealing with parents. (CL)

A program integrating cost awareness--a perspective balancing the physician's ethical obligations to individual patients with duties to the society that pays medical costs--into major required courses of the four-year medical curriculum addresses the social aspects of medical care, patient care strategy, resource utilization, and the legal system…

The article discusses problems of physicians in providing medical care to severely handicapped students, problems of edcuators in communicating with physicians, and possible solutions (e.g. continuing medical education, education of special teachers by the medical community). (MC)