Earn From Home
Earn From Home
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February 20, 2009
February 19, 2009
Epidemiology of Medicare abuse: the example of power wheelchairs
Epidemiology of Medicare abuse: the example of power wheelchairs
OBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of neighborhood ethnic composition on power wheelchairs prescriptions. DESIGN: The 5% noncancer sample of Medicare recipients in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database, from 1994 to 2001. SETTING: SEER regions. PARTICIPANTS: Individuals covered by Medicare living in SEER regions without a cancer diagnosis. MEASUREMENTS: Individual characteristics (age, sex, ethnicity, justifying diagnosis, and comorbidity), primary diagnoses, neighborhood characteristics (percentage black, percentage Hispanic, percentage with <12 years education, and median income), and SEER region. RESULTS: The rate of power wheelchair prescriptions was 33 times greater in 2001 than in 1994, with a shift over time from justifying diagnoses more closely tied to mobility impairment, such as strokes, to less-specific medical diagnoses, such as osteoarthritis. In multilevel, multivariate analyses, individuals living in neighborhoods with higher percentages of blacks or Hispanics were more likely to receive power wheelchairs (odds ratios=1.09 for each 10% increase in black residents and 1.23 for each 10% increase in Hispanic residents) after controlling for ethnicity and other characteristics at the individual level. CONCLUSION: These results support allegations that marketers promoting power wheelchairs and handicap scooters have specifically targeted minority neighborhoods.
February 14, 2009
Executive Cover Letters Bring Big Results
Executive Cover Letters Bring Big Results
If you’re ready to accept a new job as an executive in an organization, then be sure to make that clear in an executive cover letter that is well-written, focused, and brief. Executive cover letters should include information pertinent to the opening you’re bidding for. You might want to be the executive vice president of a bank or the executive manager of a retail store. If so, be sure to mention your related experience. Perhaps you were in finance at one time or in sales. Bring that expertise to the table in your executive cover letter.
February 13, 2009
Effektivt personalarbeid
Effektivt personalarbeid
Det er heller ikke disses Sykefraværskostnader oppgave å overbevise ledelsen om at Sykefraværsregistrering noe må gjøres.
Ledelsen må selv finne ut hva som kreves, og selv ta standpunkt til hva slags arbeidsmiljø virksomheten skal by sine ansatte.
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Hand-rim wheelchair propulsion capacity during rehabilitation of persons with spinal cord injury
Hand-rim wheelchair propulsion capacity during rehabilitation of persons with spinal cord injury
This paper describes the course of power wheelchairs and handicap scooters propulsion capacity (WPC) during rehabilitation of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) and its relationship with personal and injury characteristics. We investigated 132 subjects with SCI (37 with tetraplegia) at the start of active rehabilitation (t1), 3 months later (t2), and at the end of clinical rehabilitation (t3). WPC was measured as the maximal power output that can be achieved in a maximal wheelchair exercise test on a treadmill. Results were analyzed with the use of generalized estimating equations, with time of measurement, lesion level, motor completeness of the lesion, age, and gender as independent variables. Overall, WPC increased from 30.5 W at t1, to 39.5 W at t2, and 44.2 W at t3. Persons with paraplegia, persons with incomplete lesions, men, and younger persons had higher values for WPC compared with persons with tetraplegia, persons with complete lesions, women, and older persons. Rate of improvement was lower in older persons and women compared with younger persons and men. This paper identifies factors that affect the level (lesion level, completeness of the lesion, age, gender) and rate of improvement (age, gender) of WPC during rehabilitation. These findings should be considered when wheelchair capacity training is applied in SCI rehabilitation.