Publications by authors named "Susan Edmonds"
Purpose Of Review: Vision rehabilitation has been considered as an adjunct support option or just the dispensing of magnifiers in the management of macular degeneration.
Recent Findings: New research suggests that vision rehabilitation can cause physical changes in the brain that help patients adjust to permanent vision loss.
Summary: Vision rehabilitation is related to physical changes that occur in the brain.
Many hospitals are working to improve the work environment for their staff. Research has indicated a linkage between work environment characteristics and patient outcomes and this research along with the nursing shortage has been the impetus for focusing on improving the work environment. The authors described the experience of an academic medical center hospital in achieving Magnet hospital status.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/purpose: The goals of this study were (i) to demonstrate that existing and widely used sun protection factor (SPF) test methodologies can produce accurate and reproducible results for high SPF formulations and (ii) to provide data on the number of test-subjects needed, the variability of the data, and the appropriate exposure increments needed for testing high SPF formulations.
Methods: Three high SPF formulations were tested, according to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 1993 tentative final monograph (TFM) 'very water resistant' test method and/or the 1978 proposed monograph 'waterproof' test method, within one laboratory. A fourth high SPF formulation was tested at four independent SPF testing laboratories, using the 1978 waterproof SPF test method.