This trial found no measurable improvements in patients with COPD receiving a mindfulness-based breathing CAM therapy compared to a support group, suggesting that this intervention is unlikely to be an important therapeutic option for those with moderate-to-severe COPD.
Lack of information about VA, perceptions of VA quality, and inconvenience of VA care, are deterrents to VA use for many women veterans. VA WHCs may foster VA use. Educational campaigns are needed to fill the knowledge gap regarding women veterans' VA eligibility and advances in VA quality of care, while VA managers consider solutions to after-hours access barriers.
Abstract-Most veteran research is conducted in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare settings, although most veterans obtain healthcare outside the VA. Our objective was to determine the adequacy and relative contributions of Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), and Department of Defense (DOD) administrative databases for representing the U.S. veteran population, using as an example the creation of a sampling frame for the National Survey of Women Veterans. In 2008, we merged the VHA, VBA, and DOD databases. We identified the number of unique records both overall and from each database. The combined databases yielded 925,946 unique records, representing 51% of the 1,802,000 U.S. women veteran population. The DOD database included 30% of the population (with 8% overlap with other databases). The VHA enrollment database contributed an additional 20% unique women veterans (with 6% overlap with VBA databases). VBA databases contributed an additional 2% unique women veterans (beyond 10% overlap with other databases). Use of VBA and DOD databases substantially expands access to the population of veterans beyond those in VHA databases, regardless of VA use. Adoption of these additional databases would enhance the value and generalizability of a wide range of studies of both male and female veterans.
ANTITRUST LAWjouRNAL After China began its historic transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy in the late 1970s, it gradually came to realize that good competition policies would be of vital importance to its economic growth. As a result, China began experimenting with reform measures and enacting antitrust laws and regulations aimed at promoting competition in its economy. At first, China adopted a piecemeal approach, passing laws and regulations dealing with isolated competition issues as they arose. As competition issues became increasingly prominent, China recognized the importance of having a comprehensive antitrust law. In 1994, China began its efforts to enact the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML), China's first comprehensive antitrust legislation. Thirteen years later, on August 30, 2007, China's National People's Congress (NPC) finally adopted the AML. 2 The AML has provisions found in most other countries' antitrust laws, such as the prohibition of horizontal agreements and abuse of market power, and requirements for pre-merger notifications and reviews. The AML also contains many provisions not typical of antitrust laws, such as provisions regarding State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in important economic sectors, trade associations, and monopolies created by government agencies.
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