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2. Perceiving Needs by Staff and Elderly Clients: The Impact of Training and Client Contact.

Author

Avant, W. Ray and Dressel, Paula L.

Abstract

Examines survey data from a metropolitan community to investigate comparative rankings of needs of older persons by service providers and their elderly target population. Training in gerontology, serving elderly clients exclusively, and having direct contact with elderly clients as line staff were not predictors of knowledge of elderly needs. (Author)

Published
1980

4. Assessment of declines in reported tuberculosis cases--Georgia and Pennsylvania, 2009

Author

Viner, K., Johnson, C.C., Newbern, E.C., Dickman, B., Dettinger, L., Waller, K., Sales, R., Mitruka, K., Magee, E., Grant, J., Manangan, L., Yelk-Woodruff, R., Ershova, J., Metchock, B., Bedell, D., Avant, W., Dohony, D., Cropper, T.C., Haddad, M., Jones, J., Rosen, T., Click, E., Willis, M., and Abraham, B.

Subjects
Tuberculosis -- Analysis, Public health -- Analysis, Health
Abstract

In 2009, the largest single-year percentage decrease in tuberculosis (TB) cases was reported since national TB surveillance began in the United States in 1953. Overall, TB rates decreased 11.4% to [...]

Published
2011

7. Assessment of Declines in Reported Tuberculosis Cases -- Georgia and Pennsylvania, 2009.

Author

Johnson, C. C., Newbern, E. C., Dickman, B., Dettinger, L., Waller, K., Sales, R., Mitruka, K., Magee, E., Grant, J., Manangan, L., Yelk-Woodruff, R., Ershova, J., Metchock, B., Bedell, D., Avant, W., Dohony, D., Cropper, T.C., Haddad, M., Jones, J., and Rosen, T.

Subjects
TUBERCULOSIS, PREVENTION of communicable diseases, REPORTING of diseases
Abstract

The article tests the notified tuberculosis case reductions in the U.S. states of Georgia and Pennsylvania in 2009. The Georgia State Electronic Notifiable Disease Surveillance System provided data from 43 out of 92 licensed private facilities in Georgia, while Pennsylvania version of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System gathered data from 131 out of 161 in laboratories based in Pennsylvania. Georgia declined its cases to 415 out of 619 while Pennsylvania cases were reduced to 236 of 2,030.

Published
2011

22. Diagnostic guidelines in hydrocephalic dementia.

Author

Avant WS Jr and Toole JF

Subjects
Aged, Echoencephalography, Female, Humans, Hydrocephalus, Normal Pressure diagnosis, Male, Middle Aged, Pneumoencephalography, Hydrocephalus diagnosis
Published
1972

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