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PERSPECTIVE
The Evolution of American
Medicine and The Duke Endowment Health Care (Hospital) Division Since 1924
William G. Anlyan, MD
ARTICLES
Premenstrual Dysphoric
Disorder
Hal Elliott, MD
Enhanced Surveillance of Maternal Mortality in North
Carolina
Paul A. Buescher, PhD, Margeret Harper, MD, Robert E.
Meyer, PhD
A Long-Term Care Plan for
North Carolina: Synopsis of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine Final
Report
Pam Silberman, JD, DrPH, Kristie Weisner, MA, Kirsten E.
Leysieffer, MA, Cynthia M. Freund, RN, PhD, H. David Bruton, MD, Robert A.
Ingram, Gordon H. DeFriese, PhD
FORUM:
THE CRISIS IN STAFFING LONG-TERM CARE
FACILITIES
The Critical Shortage of Direct
Care Workers in Long-Term Care
Susan Harmuth, MS
PHOTO ESSAY
Recognizing the Caregivers
Donald L. Madison, MD, and Logan Mock-Bunting
COMMENTARIES
Direct Care Workers—Number
One Quality Indicator in Long-Term Care: A Consumer's Perspective
Carol Teal
Who Do We Want to Care
for Our Mothers? Defining and Reinforcing the Direct Care Workforce
Thomas R. Konrad, PhD
The Crisis
in Long-Term Care: Finding and Retaining Our Direct Care Workers
Craig Souza and Polly Godwin Welsh, RN-C
The Board of Nursing and the Regulation of Nurse Aids in
NC
Polly Johnson, RN, MSN
A Perspective on Frontline Staffing
Ted
Goins
Direct Care Workers: Reinforcing
the Numbers, Reinforcing Commitment
Jerry Cooper
DEPARTMENTS
Running the
Numbers
Letters to the
Editor
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