This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, 1974, and is a partial report of a sweeping investigation of attitude differences across ...three generations. (Author/KC)
The advances made in physical science subsequent to World War II had had a mitigating effect on the need for a traditional religious interpretation of life, and a more freely expressed sexuality ...insofar as birth control techniques allow for avoidance of unwanted pregnancy; also, growing recognition of the autonomy of women parallels the advancement of an egalitarian philsophy correlated with recnet civil rights movements. (Author/RJ)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate prospectively the efficacy and safety of mobile cardiac catheterization. Mobile cardiac catheterization was introduced into clinical practice in 1989, but ...there has been no systematic study of its performance and safety. A registry was established in 1989 to monitor outcomes with mobile cardiac catheterization and is reported here. Patients were screened for eligibility for mobile cardiac catheterization using the joint AHA/ACC criteria for outpatient angiography. Eligible patients underwent mobile catheterization at eight hospitals within 120 miles of the base tertiary center. Helicopter evacuation services were available at each mobile site. The indications, findings, dispositions, and complications of mobile cardiac catheterization were recorded by means of a checklist, telephone follow-up and chart review. A total of 1,001 consecutive patients were entered into the registry in the first 20 months of operation, including 436 females and 565 males aged 22 to 84 years. Angina (Canadian Classes II-IV) was the most frequent primary indication for catheterization (46.4%), followed by atypical chest pain (36.9%), or a positive exercise stress test (25.6%). Infrequent indications for catheterization included a history of myocardial infarction (5.6%), congestive heart failure (7.1%), arrhythmias (4.1%), and valvular heart disease (0.7%). Catheterization was accomplished in 99.9% of patients. Angiographically normal studies were observed in 22.8%, and mild (< or = 50%) coronary artery disease in 13.6% of patients.
The sample for this study consisted of 200 White, middle class, senior liberal arts majors, equally divided into four political groupings: conservatives, moderates, liberals, and radicals. ...Questionnaire items gauged specific occupations of interest and the various extrinsic and intrinsic satisfactions subjects expected to derive from work. (SJL)
