Inpatient rehabilitation wheelchair management quality improvement project: Implications for patients with spinal cord injury.

Evaluate hospital fleet wheelchair (WC) requests submitted by physical therapists (PT) for patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) to trial and use during inpatient rehabilitation. Quality improvement project secondary analysis of delivery process and WC trials. Urban inpatient rehabilitation hospital.

Malreduction of tibial articular width in bicondylar tibial plateau fractures treated with circular external fixation is associated with post-traumatic osteoarthritis.

Objectives: We aimed to report outcomes of Bicondylar Tibial Plateau (BTP) fractures treated using Ilizarov fixation, and identify risk factors for developing post-traumatic radiographic osteoarthritis (ROA).

Methods: Retrospective study of 80 BTP fractures managed with Ilizarov fixation.

Results: All fractures united, with only 3 cases of deep infection.

MORPHOMETRIC VARIABILITY IN CONTINENTAL AND ATLANTIC ISLAND POPULATIONS OF CHAFFINCHES (FRINGILLA COELEBS).

The magnitudes of phenotypic variances in peripherally isolated populations of common chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs) in the Azores, Madeira, and Canaries relative to their continental source populations in Iberia and Morocco have played a pivotal role in the formulation of competing hypotheses of phenotypic evolution in these isolates. Because Van Valen's niche variation hypothesis and Grant's model of island evolution were based on museum skins prone to measurement error and temporal variation, we re-examined the patterns of phenotypic variability using more precise skeletal measurements from freshly collected specimens. Levene's tests showed that univariate character variances were homogeneous in all island and continental populations, although there was a consistent trend for the magnitude of the variances to be lower for all characters in all Canary island populations.

GENETIC DIVERGENCE IN PERIPHERALLY ISOLATED POPULATIONS OF CHAFFINCHES IN THE ATLANTIC ISLANDS.

Peripherally isolated populations of common chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs) in the Canaries, Madeira, and Azores were compared genetically with their putative ancestral stock in Iberia and Morocco, and with a population of blue chaffinches (F. teydea) from Tenerife, using protein electrophoresis of 42 loci. The continental populations are only weakly differentiated genetically (F = 0.