A systematic search and technical review of online information pertaining to medical care for people with disability.

Background: Little is known about the availability and technical quality of online information related to the medical care of people with disability, despite the potential of this information to alter clinical interactions and treatment decisions.

Objectives: This review examines the utility of internet search engines for finding information related to medical care for people with disability, identifies common sources of this online information, and assesses the presence of technical attributes which allow for its critical evaluation.

Methods: Exhaustive systematic searches were conducted on two popular search engines (Google and Yahoo) using six search phrases.

Interventions to Teach Medical Students About Disability: A Systematic Search and Review.

Historically, medical students have received little training about working with patients with disability, but there is now a greater recognition of the need to educate medical students in this domain. The aims of this review were to define the body of literature and to determine effective strategies for teaching medical students about disability. A systematic search protocol executed across six databases identified journal articles reporting interventions implemented to teach disability to medical students.

Developing a systematic search strategy related to people with disability: A brief report testing the utility of proposed disability search terms in a search about opioid use.

Background: The varied use of the term "disability" in the scientific literature makes it challenging to conduct systematic reviews of health issues among people with disability. Utilizing general disability search terms has been suggested as an efficient way to ensure a broad capture of the literature related to disability.

Objectives: This study evaluates the utility of general disability terms versus condition-specific terms, in the context of systematically searching for articles related to disability and other conditions or issues, in this case, opioid use.

Preschool children's social understanding: a pilot study of goals and strategies during conflict situations.

This pilot study tested a new enactive measure of social information-processing skills and investigated whether preschool children's goals were related to their strategies during hypothetical conflict situations. Children (13 boys, 12 girls) ages 3 to 6 years (three 3-yr.-olds, three 4-yr.

A new ultrasensitive assay for quantitation of HIV-1 RNA in plasma.

Nucleic acid-based diagnostic assays for the quantitation of plasma HIV-1 RNA levels are used to monitor disease progression and the response of patients to antiretroviral drug therapy. The LCx HIV RNA Quantitative Assay (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL) is an assay for the quantitation of HIV type 1 RNA in plasma that uses competitive reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) followed by Microparticle Enzyme Immunoassay, and includes an internal control for inhibition and RNA recovery, that is taken through the entire sample preparation procedure. The performance of the assay was assessed for 1 and 0.