Top-of-the-bed restraints, Mr. Marlan said, are "nationally accepted, effective practices in correctional populations".
We find that rejection of the personal meaning of symptoms often backfires, and has the unintended consequence of driving patients away from accepting effective treatments.
John A. Patti Chairman, Board of Chancellors American College of Radiology Boston, Aug. 3, 2010 To the Editor: One important point not emphasized in the article is that this is a case where diagnostic capability far exceeds accepted effective therapy.
However, there is no widely accepted, effective method for evaluating whether healthcare strategies and interventions do, in fact, empower patients.
In transitional socioeconomic regions there may also be resistance to accepting effective low-cost interventions, precisely because they are perceived to be low-cost and low-tech.
Cryosurgery with liquid nitrogen is a procedurally rapid and generally accepted effective method for treating isolated lesions that are few in number, and it is the most frequently used method in the US.
Percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) is a widely accepted, effective means of treating recently acquired painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures (new bone marrow edema on sagittal T1-weighted and fat-suppressed T2-weighted images in magnetic resonance imaging [MRI]), which can relieve pain quickly, increase stability immediately, and recover vertebral body height.
HSPCs transplantation is an increasingly accepted effective treatment option for patients with severe autoimmune diseases refractory to conventional treatment [ 1] and has been used successfully in patients with multiple sclerosis [ 2], rheumatoid arthritis [ 3], systemic sclerosis [ 4], systemic lupus erythematosus [ 5], and Crohn's disease [ 6, 7].
Over the last year, however, many affluent workers have had to accept an effective pay cut as their employers have realized that the weak job market has left them with few other options.
The first is to give Mr Hussein a last chance to accept an effective regime of arms inspections a tougher one, that is, than the one he saw off before.
"Brutal," said Hans Humes of Greylock Capital, who agreed this week, along with representatives of 11 other financial institutions, to accept an effective 75 percent loss on the value of his Greek bonds.
