Protest prompts action on railroad signals in Delaware
Arthur Lodge and fellow student Heidi Veithofer lead campus political groups advocating signals at unmarked rural railroad crossings. State and federal funds will back nearly 1.5 million dollars to install lights at 26 crossings in Kent and Sussex counties by December 1983, coordinated with a separate 4 million Conrail rail upgrade project. Lodge credits the effort with prompting government action and vows continued influence.
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Georgetown, del
Arthur Lodge
Sussex County
Lodge
Heidi Veithofer
Delaware Technical and Community College
Georgetown
Kent
Sussex Counties
Andrew J. Rispoli
Lower
Delaware
Group claims nearly a quarter of pacemakers unnecessary
Washington AP report notes Public Citizens Health Research Group and Rockburn Institute review 2,653 Maryland pacemaker patients in 1979 and 1980, finding 72.1 percent of implants questionable and 13.4 percent unnecessary. They urge Medicare second opinions and local peer reviews, estimating $5.6 million to $5.7 million could have been saved. many unnecessary implants were federally funded for seniors.
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Washington
Maryland
Public Citzen
Health and Human Services
Richard S. Schweiker
Rockburn Institute
Elkridge
Health Services Research Organization
Aid
Uing
Schweiker
Sidney M. Wolfe
Eve
Study Questions Pacemaker Implant Rates
Bargmann and Peter Kowey with attorney Allen Greenberg discuss a Frederick project surveying one discharge diagnosis per patient rather than full charts. Cardiologist Kowey notes no finger pointing, but calls data worth evaluation as similar studies report about a 20 percent rate of unnecessary pacemaker implants.
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Bargmann
Peter Kowey
Allen Greenberg
Kowey
Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia
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