The Waiting Room by Peter Nicks

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-319
Author(s):  
Dominique Tobbell
Keyword(s):  
Waiting Room

The Obesity Epidemic in Chinese American Youth?: A Literature Review and Pilot Study

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Matloff ◽  
Angela Lee ◽  
Roland Tang ◽  
Doug Brugge
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Community Health Center ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
American Children

Despite nearly 12 million Asian Americans living in the United States and continued immigration, this increasingly substantial subpopulation has consistently been left out of national obesity studies. When included in national studies, Chinese-American children have been grouped together with other Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders or simply as “other,” yielding significantly lower rates of overweight and obesity compared to non-Asians. There is a failure to recognize the ethnic diversity of Asian Americans as well as the effect of acculturation. Results from smaller studies of Chinese American youth suggest that they are adopting lifestyles less Chinese and more Americans and that their share of disease burden is growing. We screened 142 children from the waiting room of a community health center that serves primarily recent Chinese immigrants for height, weight and demographic profile. Body Mass Index was calculated and evaluated using CDC growth charts. Overall, 30.1 percent of children were above the 85th we found being male and being born in the U .S. to be statistically significant for BMI > 85th percentile (p=0.039, p=0.001, respectively). Our results suggest that being overweight in this Chinese American immigrant population is associated with being born in the U.S. A change in public policy and framework for research are required to accurately assess the extent of overweight and obesity in Chinese American children. In particular, large scale data should be stratified by age, sex, birthplace and measure of acculturation to identify those at risk and construct tailored interventions.

Why Not Poems in the Waiting Room?

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-181
Author(s):  
Jeanine Young-Mason
Keyword(s):  
Waiting Room

scholarly journals Audio-guided self-hypnosis for reduction of claustrophobia during MR imaging: results of an observational 2-group study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriane E. Napp ◽  
Torsten Diekhoff ◽  
Olf Stoiber ◽  
Judith Enders ◽  
Gerd Diederichs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Mr Imaging ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
High Risk Patients ◽  
Imaging Results ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Risk Patients ◽  
And Coping

Abstract Objectives To evaluate the influence of audio-guided self-hypnosis on claustrophobia in a high-risk cohort undergoing magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Methods In this prospective observational 2-group study, 55 patients (69% female, mean age 53.6 ± 13.9) used self-hypnosis directly before imaging. Claustrophobia included premature termination, sedation, and coping actions. The claustrophobia questionnaire (CLQ) was completed before self-hypnosis and after MR imaging. Results were compared to a control cohort of 89 patients examined on the same open MR scanner using logistic regression for multivariate analysis. Furthermore, patients were asked about their preferences for future imaging. Results There was significantly fewer claustrophobia in the self-hypnosis group (16%; 9/55), compared with the control group (43%; 38/89; odds ratio .14; p = .001). Self-hypnosis patients also needed less sedation (2% vs 16%; 1/55 vs 14/89; odds ratio .1; p = .008) and non-sedation coping actions (13% vs 28%; 7/55 vs 25/89; odds ratio .3; p = .02). Self-hypnosis did not influence the CLQ results measured before and after MR imaging (p = .79). Self-hypnosis reduced the frequency of claustrophobia in the subgroup of patients above an established CLQ cut-off of .33 from 47% (37/78) to 18% (9/49; p = .002). In the subgroup below the CLQ cut-off of 0.33, there were no significant differences (0% vs 9%, 0/6 vs 1/11; p = 1.0). Most patients (67%; 35/52) preferred self-hypnosis for future MR examinations. Conclusions Self-hypnosis reduced claustrophobia in high-risk patients undergoing imaging in an open MR scanner and might reduce the need for sedation and non-sedation coping actions. Key Points • Forty percent of the patients at high risk for claustrophobia may also experience a claustrophobic event in an open MR scanner. • Self-hypnosis while listening to an audio in the waiting room before the examination may reduce claustrophobic events in over 50% of patients with high risk for claustrophobia. • Self-hypnosis may also reduce the need for sedation and other time-consuming non-sedation coping actions and is preferred by high-risk patients for future examinations.

scholarly journals The GP waiting room under examination

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (646) ◽  
pp. 260-260
Author(s):  
Gary Clapton
Keyword(s):  
Waiting Room

The patients' feelings in a waiting-room of the department of gynecologic oncology

1993 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. S214
Author(s):  
S Lemminpää ◽  
A-B Haglund ◽  
B Frankendal
Keyword(s):  
Gynecologic Oncology ◽  
Waiting Room

The interchangeability of ·/M/1 queues in series

1979 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 690-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Output Process ◽  
Input Process ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Series Order ◽  
In Series ◽  
Queues In Series ◽  
Stochastic Input ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Single Exponential

A series of queues consists of a number of · /M/1 queues arranged in a series order. Each queue has an infinite waiting room and a single exponential server. The rates of the servers may differ. Initially the system is empty. Customers enter the first queue according to an arbitrary stochastic input process and then pass through the queues in order: a customer leaving the first queue immediately enters the second queue, and so on. We are concerned with the stochastic output process of customer departures from the final queue. We show that the queues are interchangeable, in the sense that the output process has the same distribution for all series arrangements of the queues. The ‘output theorem' for the M/M/1 queue is a corollary of this result.

scholarly journals The waiting room: vector for health education? the general practitioner’s point of view

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxine Gignon ◽  
Hadjila Idris ◽  
Cecile Manaouil ◽  
Oliver Ganry
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Waiting Room

Early lexical development in Spanish-speaking infants and toddlers

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Jackson-Maldonado ◽  
Donna Thal ◽  
Virginia Marchman ◽  
Elizabeth Bates ◽  
Vera Gutierrez-Clellen
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Infants And Toddlers ◽  
Personal Interview ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Lexical Development ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Spanish Language Acquisition

ABSTRACTThis paper describes the early lexical development of a group of 328 normal Spanish-speaking children aged 0;8 to 2;7. First the development and structure of a new parent report instrument,Inventario del Desarollo de Habilidades Communcativasis described. Then five studies carried out with the instrument are presented. In the first study vocabulary development of Spanish-speaking infants and toddlers is compared to that of English-speaking infants and toddlers. The English data were gathered using a comparable parental report, theMacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. In the second study the general characteristics of Spanish language acquisition, and the effects of various demographic factors on that process, are examined. Study 3 examines the differential effects of three methods of collecting the data (mail-in, personal interview, and clinic waiting room administration). Studies 4 and 5 document the reliability and validity of the instrument. Results show that the trajectories of development are very similar for Spanish-and English-speaking children in this age range, that children from varying social groups develop similarly, and that mail-in and personal interview administration techniques produce comparable results. Inventories administered in a medical clinic waiting room, on the otherhand, produced lower estimates of toddler vocabulary than the other two models.

Simple Bounds and Monotnicity the Call Congestion of Finite Multiserver Delay Systems

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico M van Dijk ◽  
Pantelis Tsoucas ◽  
Jean Walrand
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Design ◽  
Sample Path ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Monotonicity Property ◽  
Delay Systems ◽  
Asymptotic Result ◽  
Lower And Upper Bounds ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Numerical Evidence ◽  
Simple Bounds

Simple and insensitive lower and upper bounds are proposed for the call congestion of M/GI/c/n queues. To prove them we establish the general monotonicity property that increasing the waiting room and/or the number of servers in a /GI/c/n queue increases the throughput. An asymptotic result on the number of busy servers is obtained as a consequence of the bounds. Numerical evidence as well as an application to optimal design illustrates the potential usefulness for engineering purposes. The proof is based on a sample path argument.

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