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Ann McCampbell, M.D., is a graduate of the UCLA Medical School and became a licensed physician in California in 1979. She completed an internship in internal medicine in Santa Barbara, and practiced in the field of women s health for five years at the University of California Santa Barbara Student Health Center, and at Kaiser Permanente in the San Francisco Bay Area. Off-hours she played drums in a rock and roll band, and played competitive beach volleyball. 

In the United States, there are several computerised healthcare systems, sometimes referred to as multipurpose databases, which have been used for post-marketing surveillance purposes. The best-known include Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Kaiser-Permanente, Medicaid, Rhode Island and the Saskatchewan database in Canada. ... 

Friedman GD, Collen MF, Harris LE, et al. Experience in monitoring drug reactions in outpatients the Kaiser-Permanente Drug Monitoring System. ]AMA 1971 217 2498. 

Following are examples of such chemicals, by category, listed by the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition and Kaiser Permanente ... 

Kaiser Permanente, Stockton Medical Center, Stockton, California, U.S.A. 

Concern for the environment is nothing new, yet decisions affecting the chemical sector are making headlines. Microsoft curtailed its use of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), also known as vinyl, for computer packaging products. Other companies cutting their use of PVC include Hewlett Packard, Wal-Mart Stores and Kaiser Permanente. Another potentially... 

In various settings such as the VA outpatient clinics, Kaiser Permanente outpatient services, hospital-based outpatient clinics, physician offices, and community pharmacies, pharmacists have been successfully managing patients warfarin therapy. " Research demonstrates the positive outcomes associated with and the cost-effectiveness of pharmacist-run warfarin clin-iCs.50/51... 

Why is the person using this product/service What s the job to be done What are their expectations When Kaiser Permanente set out to design a new hospital, an ethnographic study revealed that people who go to a hospital had many needs. In addition to the... 

A Healthcare Provider Gains Strategic Marketplace Advantage. Kaiser Permanente, headquartered in Oakland, CA, a private not-for-profit healthcare provider serving 8 million members in 11 states and a leader in the healthcare delivery field, follows CSR recommendations wherever possible. Kaiser began efforts to replace PVC in carpets, vinyl composition tiles, and particleboard several years ago. 

Chin HL, Krall MA. Successful implementation of a comprehensive computer-based patient record system in Kaiser Permanente Northwest strategy and experience. Eff Clin Pract 1998 1 51-60. 

For this chapter, much is owed to analysis offered by the following experts at the 5th Scripps-BIO Drug Development Conference (La Jolla, California, February 2003) Rear-Admiral Marlene E. Haffner USPHS MD MPH FRCP (US Food and Drag Administration), Professor P. Kurki MD (National Agency for Medicines, Finland), M. Toivonen MD PhD (CHMP, EMEA), H. Greenaway MD (Scripps Clinic, California), and R. Wagner PharmD (Kaiser Permanente, USA). The views expressed at that conference were those of the experts themselves, and were not necessarily those of their employers. 

TABLE 1 9—1 8. Outpatient Treatment Protocol for Venous Thrombosis (Kaiser Permanente of Colorado)... 

Black S, Shinefield H, Fireman B, et al. Efficacy, safety and immuno-genicity of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in children. Northern California Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center Group (see comments). Pediatr Infect Dis 1 2000 19 187-195. 

Adjoint Assistant Professor, University of Colorado School of Pharmacy, Manager, Clinical Pharmacy Services, Kaiser Permanente of Colorado Pharmacy Administration, Aurora, Colorado Chapter 19... 

David TJ Reactions to dietary tartrazine. Arch Dis Child 62 119-122, 1987 Egger], Graham P], Carter CM, et al Controlled trial of oligoantigenic treatment in the hyperkinetic syndrome. Lancet 1 540-545,1985 Eich WF, Thim EB, Crowder JE Effect of the Feingold Kaiser Permanente diet in minimal brain dysfunction. Journal of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama 49 16-20, 1979... 

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