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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation.

29 Sep 2009 The traditional nursing home regulatory approach, which uses survey and enforcement to achieve performance improvement, has created tensions between providers and surveyors. It has had limited success in improving quality overall and not necessarily ... Read more...

Smokefree cars in New Zealand: rapid research among stakeholders on attitudes and future directions.

23 Sep 2009 AIM: To conduct a rapid appraisal of the attitudes of New Zealand decision makers and tobacco control stakeholders on enacting a smokefree cars law. METHODS: A media and document search was made for relevant official and other statements. In early ... Read more...

Attitudes and action: public opinion and the occurrence of international terrorism.

16 Sep 2009 The predictors of terrorism are unclear. This paper examines the effect of public opinion in one country toward another country on the number of terrorist attacks perpetrated by people or groups from the former country against targets in the latter ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Federal Government'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Public trust doctrine: too limited. 30 Sep 2009
• Public trust doctrine: too broad. 30 Sep 2009
• Biosecurity. Lawmakers signal tougher controls on pathogen research. 30 Sep 2009
• Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation. 29 Sep 2009
• Curbing teen tobacco use. 29 Sep 2009
• Iranian ministers in plagiarism row. 29 Sep 2009
• Presidential operations. 29 Sep 2009
• Presidential operations. 29 Sep 2009
• Senator Kennedy's legacy to U.S. health and health care. 28 Sep 2009
• Who's afraid of the flu? 26 Sep 2009
• Smokefree cars in New Zealand: rapid research among stakeholders on attitudes and future directions. 23 Sep 2009
• German science looks to new political players. 22 Sep 2009
• Attitudes and action: public opinion and the occurrence of international terrorism. 16 Sep 2009
• Money in biomedicine: The senator's sleuth. 15 Sep 2009
• Good law from tragic facts--Congress, the FDA, and preemption. 15 Sep 2009
• Tort claims and federal regulation of medical devices vs pharmaceuticals. 14 Sep 2009
• Feds may provide isotope funding. 13 Sep 2009
• Budget instructions. Sep 2009
• Cash costs. Sep 2009
• Pill disposal: a growing concern. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Federal Government'

Definition: The level of governmental organization and function at the national or country-wide level.

Descriptor UI: D035082

Alternative terms: Federal Government; Government, Federal; National Government;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: I01.409.137; N03.540.348.500;

History Note: 2003

Technical Notes: not restricted to the U.S.; use when legislation or regulation at the national, as opposed to the state, provincial, or local level, is under discussion; specify country