Impact of a Diabetes Toolkit on Weight Loss Among Veterans.

This quality improvement project aimed to answer the following clinical question: Among U.S. male veterans (N = 30) living with type 2 diabetes (T2D) receiving services from a Veterans Affairs (VA) endocrinology clinic, how does a diabetes toolkit influence knowledge and glycaemic control? All the study participants were male and from 31 to 91 years of age.

Acquisition of a Digital Intraoral Scanning Device: An Examination of Practice Volume Changes and the Economic Impact via an Interrupted Time Series Analysis.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of digital scanning in general dental practices and orthodontic practices to determine the percentage of lift, i.e., the percent increase in gross receipts, of Invisalign® treatment starts following the introduction of an iTero® intraoral scanner.

The link between employee attitudes and employee effectiveness: Data matrix of meta-analytic estimates based on 1161 unique correlations.

This article offers a correlation matrix of meta-analytic estimates between various employee job attitudes (i.e., Employee engagement, job satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational commitment) and indicators of employee effectiveness (i.

Meaning-making in memories: a comparison of memories of death-related and low point life experiences.

Because of their extensive experience with death and dying, hospice volunteers may be more successful at engaging in meaning-making regarding their death-related experiences than their low point life experiences (e.g., job loss).

Life experience with death: relation to death attitudes and to the use of death-related memories.

The study examines the relation of death experience to death attitudes and to autobiographical memory use. Participants (N = 52) completed standard death attitude measures and wrote narratives about a death-related autobiographical memory and (for comparison) a memory of a low point. Self-ratings of the memory narratives were used to assess their functional use.