Intensive Case Management to Reduce Hospital Readmissions: A Pilot Quality Improvement Project.

Purpose Of Study: Hospital readmissions burden the U.S. health care system, and they have negative effects on patients and their families.

Chronological and morphological study of heart development in the rat.

Adult and embryonic laboratory rats have been used as a mammalian model organism in biomedical research, descriptive and experimental cardiac embryology, and experimental teratology. There have been, however, considerable variations and discrepancies concerning the developmental staging of the rat embryo in the reported literature, which have resulted in several controversies and inconsistencies. Therefore, we carried out a careful anatomical and histological study of rat cardiac morphogenesis from the premorphogenetic period to the mature heart in a newborn pup.