Homer R. Warner

TL;DR: An equation of conditional probability is derived to express the logical process used by a clinician in making a diagnosis from clinical data, and provides a means by which electronic computing equipment may be used to advantage in clinical medicine.

TL;DR: The HELP system as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive computer system for acquiring medical data and implementing medical decision logic at the University of Utah and the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, which is currently operational at LDS Hospital, which serves the needs of the intermountain west.

TL;DR: The mechanism by which adrenocortical steroids induce granulocytosis in man has been investigated using granulocytes labeled with radioactive diisopropylfluorophosphate and the rate of decline of granulocyte specific activity was increased, indicating that the blood pool was being diluted at an accelerated rate by unlabeled cells entering from the bone marrow.

TL;DR: The effect on heart rate of stimulation of sympathetic and vagus efferent nerves to the heart has been described in a qualitative fashion by many investiga tors as discussed by the authors, except for the work of Rosenblueth and Simeone1 in 1934.

TL;DR: Both the dose of diazepam and the resulting plasma level were inversely correlated to age, indicating that age is a critical factor in the use ofdiazepam for cardioversion premedication; elderly are more sensitive to the depressant effects of this drug than the young.