Once unquestioned airway experts, anesthesiologists now find themselves operating in an environment where multiple specialties, including emergency medicine (EM), critical care, and surgery, have accessed and practice an
JPS and JGB are entitled to shares of royalties received by the university from sales of artificial antigen-presenting cell products described herein. JPS owns NexImmune stock, which is subject to certain restrictions under university policy and is a member of the company's scientific advisory board. The terms of this arrangement are being managed by Johns Hopkins University, within the guidelines of its conflict-of-interest policies. JPS also acknowledges grant funding from AstraZeneca.
Diagnostic and treatment practices of institutional facilities treating high blood pressure in New York City were surveyed by mail in 1978. Respondents were adhering to the treatment recommendations of the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. Ninety-two per cent of respondents reported 90-104 mm Hg as the diastolic blood pressure level at which drug therapy was initiated, indicating a more aggressive approach than was warranted by the information available at the time of the survey. (Am J Public Health 1981; 71:413-416.) In 1976, the New York Heart Association surveyed all facilities in New York City that provided detection and treatment services for hypertension. ' (Table 1).More than 80 per cent of the respondents included elevated systolic pressure and target organ damage as factors influencing the decision to initiate medication. A family history of the complications of hypertension was an influencing factor for 64 per cent of the respondents. Ninety per cent of general medical clinics replied that they considered the fam-*Of the 64 respondents, 38 (59 per cent) were hospitals, eight were industrial settings, five were Health Insurance Plan groups, 12 were free standing treatment and diagnostic centers, and one was a private ambulatory care facility. Twenty-three responses came from hypertension specialty clinics and 21 came from general medical clinics. The remainder were from group practice settings, free standing ambulatory services, or industrial services.
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