Development of an assessment tool for the multidisciplinary evaluation of neurological dependency: preliminary findings.

Background: Multidisciplinary inputs are of vital importance in the comprehensive care management and rehabilitation of individuals with long-term neurological conditions. Although many ordinal measures of disability correlate with patient dependency and care, few are based on numbers of different health professionals required, or their skill-mix, for assistance associated with levels of dependency.

Aim And Objectives: To develop an instrument to assess dependency in adult patients suffering from severe and complex neurological disability for use by multidisciplinary teams.

Repeat syphilis among men who have sex with men--San Diego County, 2004-2009.

Among 614 men who have sex with men in San Diego County with early syphilis during January 2004 to June 2007, 74 (11.7%; 95% confidence interval: 9.3%-14.

Computerized bioterrorism education and training for nurses on bioterrorism attack agents.

Background: Biological agents have the ability to cause large-scale mass casualties. For this reason, their likely use in future terrorist attacks is a concern for national security. Recent studies show that nurses are ill prepared to deal with agents used in biological warfare.