In total, these findings in a new sample and with a new mode of administration support prior office-based evidence that the PDI-4 appears to be a valid, brief self-rated instrument for assisting with the assessment of 4 common psychiatric diagnoses.
Herb Linnen Washington, Dec. 16, 2008 To the Editor: Should a political legacy entitle one to step into a Senate seat, with no prior public office experience?
Successful presidential candidates generally have followed one of two paths to the White House: from prior elected office (some four-fifths of presidents have been members of the U.S. Congress or state governors) or from distinguished service in the military (e.g., Washington, Jackson, and Dwight D. Eisenhower [1953 61]).
To evaluate and compare the effectiveness of 200 μg vaginal misoprostol vs. 400 μg vaginal misoprostol administrated 3 h prior to office hysteroscopy, in cervical priming.
The last great -- truly great -- Senator Illinois had was a guy who went to Washington with one prior elective office, that of Chicago alderman.
Personnel and space constraints, however, limit the ability of many medical practices to deliver these materials to patients immediately prior to office visits.
The "experience" question is being asked of Caroline Kennedy in a way it was never asked of her uncle Bobby--who also had never held prior elective office--because she has had different life experiences as a woman, wife, and mother than a man, who is a husband and father.
The prevalence of anemia was determined using a predefined algorithm, which defined a patient as anemic in a step-wise fashion, based on evidence of (1) hemoglobin ≤10 g/dL on or within 3 days prior to the office visit, (2) ongoing anemia treatment at the office visit, or (3) a physician diagnosis of anemia together with one or more anemia symptom at the office visit.
"Consistent with the notion that lobbyists sell access to powerful elected officials, the drop in revenue increases with the seniority of and committee assignments power held by the Senator immediately prior to leaving office," the report says.
