Tabla de Contenidos: “…Zidovudine and Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 -- RESISTANCE TO ANTIMALARIALS -- VECTOR RESISTANCE TO PESTICIDES -- New Understandings: Microbes as Cofactors in Chronic Disease -- HUMAN T-CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS TYPES I AND II -- ATHEROSCLEROSIS -- HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS -- BREAKDOWN OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES -- Inadequate Sanitation: Cholera -- Complacency -- INADEQUATE LEVELS OF IMMUNIZATION: MEASLES -- War -- 3 Addressing the Threats -- RECOGNITION -- Surveillance in Action: The World Health Organization's Smallpox Eradication Program -- LESSONS FROM THE SMALLPOX EXPERIENCE -- Current U.S.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kidney Failure and the Federal Government -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- PART I Overview -- Summary -- THE CONGRESSIONAL CHARGE TO THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE -- BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- ESRD PATIENTS AND THEIR TREATMENT -- ACCESS -- ETHICS -- THE PROVIDER COMMUNITY -- REIMBURSEMENT AND QUALITY -- Reimbursement Effects on Quality -- Outpatient Dialysis Reimbursement Issues -- Covered Services -- Rate-Setting and Payment Policy -- QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND ASSURANCE -- DATA SYSTEMS -- RESEARCH -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 1 Introduction -- THE CONGRESSIONAL CHARGE -- BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- CONTEXT OF THIS STUDY -- STUDY METHODS -- THE ESRD PATIENT POPULATION -- NATIONAL EXPENDITURES FOR ESRD -- ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART II Patients and Providers -- 2 Perspectives of ESRD Patients -- EXPERIENCES WITH RENAL FAILURE -- Patient Relationships with Physicians and Staff -- Patient Education -- Patient-Related Services -- Effect of Erythropoietin -- ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF KIDNEY FAILURE -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCE -- 3 Ethical Issues -- PATIENT ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA -- WITHDRAWAL FROM TREATMENT -- Guidelines -- Advance Directives -- TREATING THE PROBLEM PATIENT -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4 The Patient Population -- INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE -- COMPOSITION OF THE ESRD POPULATION -- MORTALITY ISSUES -- Unadjusted Mortality -- Adjusted Mortality -- Subgroup Mortality -- STATE AND REGIONAL MORTALITY DATA -- CROSS-NATIONAL MORTALITY DATA -- PROJECTIONS TO THE YEAR 20006 -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 The ESRD Patient Population: Special Groups -- PEDIATRIC PATIENTS -- ELDERLY ESRD PATIENTS -- DIABETIC PATIENTS -- HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS -- Hypertension in the United States -- Relationship Between Hypertension and Hypertensive ESRD -- Epidemiology of ESRD Attributed to Hypertension…”

“…"Digital media provide humans with more access to information than ever before--a computer, tablet, or smartphone can all be used to access data online and users frequently have more than one device. However, as humans continue to venture into the digital frontier, it remains to be known whether access to seemingly unlimited information is actually helping us learn and solve complex problems, or ultimately creating more difficulty and confusion for individuals and societies by offering content overload that is not always meaningful. …”