PROCESS AND SYSTEMS: A systems approach to embedding group consultations in the NHS.

Group consultations are an important care option that is -starting to gain traction in the USA and Australia. This review summarises the likely benefits accruing from a systems -approach to implementing group consultations widely in the NHS and other socialised healthcare systems. Existing evidence is mapped to five distinct systems approaches: (1) development; (2) different age groups; (3) patient-centred pathway of care; (4) NHS system changes; and (5) education.

Shared medical appointments - an adjunct for chronic disease management in Australia?

Background: The incidence of chronic disease continues largely unabated in modern western societies. While the content (physiology, determinants) of these diseases is well studied, processes of dealing with them at the clinical level have been less well considered. Shared medical appointments (SMAs) or group consultations (also often referred to as group visits) are 'a series of individual office visits sequentially attending to each patient's unique medical needs individually, but in a supportive group setting where all can listen, interact and learn'.

Group medical appointments: organization and implementation in the bone marrow transplantation clinic.

Group medical appointments provide patients with prompt access to care, greater attention to their psychosocial needs, and increased time with their medical team. Care providers evaluate more patients with similar needs in a shorter period. Eligible patients (between 100 days and 3 years after autologous stem cell transplantation) were contacted to participate.

Exploring the everyday life incidence of déjà connu experiences in impression formation.

This study explored the everyday life incidence and nature of what we refer to as déjà connu experiences, i.e., situations where a newly encountered individual reminds the perceiver of someone else.

Predaceous Behavior and Life History of Odontopharynx longicaudata (Diplogasterida).

The behavior of a California isolate of the predaceous nematode, Odontopharynx longicaudata de Man, was studied in water agar culture. When feeding on an Acrobeloides sp. the predator completed its life cycle in 13 to 14 days at 25 C.

Taxonomy and Postembryonic Stages of the Nematode Predator Odontopharynx longicaudata de Man, 1912 (Diplogasterida).

Odontopharynx longicaudata (Diplogasterida: Odontopharyngidae) was found in soil around roots of Poa annua L. growing on a golf course in San Francisco, California. This is the first record of this species in the United States.

Ecological study of nematode parasitism in ips beetles from california and idaho.

Nematodes found in Ips paraconfusus from ponderosa pine in California were an undescribed species of Parasitaphelenchus, Contortylenchus elongatus, C. reversus, and C. brevicomi.

Type specimens on deposit at university of california davis nematode collection.

A list of the deposited type specimens, historical highlights, and maintenance procedures are given for the type section of the University of California Davis Nematode Collection (UCDNC). The type specimen section contains more than 630 species and 10,740 individual specimens mounted on more than 3,600 microscope slides. This list of deposited types is only a type specimen location reference and should not be used for type status or as a check list.

Nothacrobeles, n. gen., with Descriptions of Four New Species (Nematoda: Cephalobidae).

A new nematode genus, Nothacrobeles, is proposed in the subfamily Acrobelinae. Four new species are described and one new combination made. The five species exhibit a progression from short-to-long, bifurcate, elaborately fringed labial probolae, the longest probolae resembling those of species of Acrobeles.