Inpatient diabetes management: examining morning practice in an acute care setting.

Purpose: Morning diabetes management in an inpatient acute care facility was examined.

Methods: A descriptive, nonexperimental research design was used to study the effect of the following variables on patients' prelunch blood glucose: duration of time between (1) blood glucose monitoring and insulin administration, (2) insulin administration and breakfast, and (3) blood glucose monitoring and breakfast. A nonprobability convenience sample was used to examine 40 adults with diabetes who were hospitalized in an urban, academic medical center.

A cohort mortality study of employees in the U.S. carbon black industry.

Objectives: The objectives of this study are to evaluate historical mortality patterns, especially due to cancers, among employees of the U.S. carbon black industry and to address the methodological shortcomings of previous U.

Fresh produce: a growing cause of outbreaks of foodborne illness in the United States, 1973 through 1997.

Fresh produce is an important part of a healthy diet. During the last three decades, the number of outbreaks caused by foodborne pathogens associated with fresh produce consumption reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has increased. To identify trends, we analyzed data for 1973 through 1997 from the Foodborne Outbreak Surveillance System.