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1. Task Force on Confidentiality in the Adoption Program: A Report to the California State Department of Health.

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California State Dept. of Health, Sacramento. and Sullivan, Mary

Abstract

This report contains the findings and recommendations of a task force established to develop a comprehensive statement regarding the confidentiality of adoption records and to define the scope of information (background and/or identifying) to be shared with birth parents prior to placement of a child for adoption, adoptive parents at the time of placement, and adoptees upon request. The introductory section of the report contains a description of the events leading up to the formation of the task force and a brief statement of task force objectives. Section 2 presents a list of the 24 task force members. In Section 3, issues which shaped the general background of task force discussions are delineated. The 14 major findings of the task force are enumerated in Section 4 and the reactions of selected birth parents to these findings are presented in Section 5. Section 6 contains recommendations made by the task force in four areas: (1) access to nonidentifying information, (2) access to identifying information, (3) adoption records, and (4) registration system. Section 7 contains a summary statement. (JMB)

Published
1977

2. Association Between a Virtual Glucose Management Service and Glycemic Control in Hospitalized Adult Patients: An Observational Study.

Author

Rushakoff, Robert J., Sullivan, Mary M., MacMaster, Heidemarie Windham, Shah, Arti D., Rajkomar, Alvin, Glidden, David V., and Kohn, Michael A.

Subjects
*GLUCOSE, *HYPERGLYCEMIA, *GLUCOSE metabolism disorders, *GLYCEMIC control, *HYPOGLYCEMIA, *BLOOD sugar analysis, *INSULIN therapy, *COMPARATIVE studies, *HOSPITAL care, *HOSPITALS, *HYPOGLYCEMIC agents, *INSULIN, *TYPE 1 diabetes, *RESEARCH methodology, *MEDICAL cooperation, *MEDICAL protocols, *RESEARCH, *RESEARCH funding, *EVALUATION research, *CROSS-sectional method, *DISEASE complications, *DIAGNOSIS
Abstract

Background: Inpatient hyperglycemia is common and is linked to adverse patient outcomes. New methods to improve glycemic control are needed.Objective: To determine whether a virtual glucose management service (vGMS) is associated with improved inpatient glycemic control.Design: Cross-sectional analyses of three 12-month periods (pre-vGMS, transition, and vGMS) between 1 June 2012 and 31 May 2015.Setting: 3 University of California, San Francisco, hospitals.Patients: All nonobstetric adult inpatients who underwent point-of-care glucose testing.Intervention: Hospitalized adult patients with 2 or more glucose values of 12.5 mmol/L or greater (≥225 mg/dL) (hyperglycemic) and/or a glucose level less than 3.9 mmol/L (<70 mg/dL) (hypoglycemic) in the previous 24 hours were identified using a daily glucose report. Based on review of the insulin/glucose chart in the electronic medical record, recommendations for insulin changes were entered in a vGMS note, which could be seen by all clinicians.Measurements: Proportion of patient-days classified as hyperglycemic, hypoglycemic, and at-goal (all measurements ≥3.9 and ≤10 mmol/L [≥70 and ≤180 mg/dL] during the pre-vGMS, transition, and vGMS periods).Results: The proportion of hyperglycemic patients decreased by 39%, from 6.6 per 100 patient-days in the pre-vGMS period to 4.0 per 100 patient-days in the vGMS period (difference, -2.5 [95% CI, -2.7 to -2.4]). The hypoglycemic proportion in the vGMS period was 36% lower than in the pre-vGMS period (difference, -0.28 [CI, -0.35 to -0.22]). Forty severe hypoglycemic events (<2.2 mmol/L [<40 mg/dL]) occurred during the pre-vGMS period compared with 15 during the vGMS period.Limitation: Information was not collected on patients' concurrent illnesses and treatment or physicians' responses to the vGMS notes.Conclusion: Implementation of the vGMS was associated with decreases in hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia.Primary Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, the Wilsey Family Foundation, and the UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2017
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3. Arts of the Covenant.

Author

Sullivan, Mary

Subjects
ARTIST associations, PRESBYTERIAN Church, PRESBYTERIAN Church & state, ARTS exhibitions, ART & religion
Abstract

The article features the Arts of Covenant, organized by mixed-media artist Marriane Lettieri and several secular art groups belonging to the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Santa Clara County, California. According to Lettieri, the organization focuses to encourage fellow artists to express their Christina faith through their creativity. Moreover, it also provides an opportunity for people to be intellectually understand biblical and spiritual truths through the observation of artworks.

Published
2010

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