1.   Eighteen medical centers will enroll patients in the trial.

2.   For comparison, we utilized patients from clinics at a Midwestern inner city medical center.

3.   HMOs and modern medical centers are powerful institutions with an army of in-house lawyers, risk managers and numerous administrators.

4.   Nonpatient populations were then polled and interviewed through the courtesy of medical centers and universities throughout the country.

5.   Patients would probably have to be moved, either to other military medical centers or to private health-care facilities.

6.   The blood sample, if drawn outside Stanford, can be transported to the Palo Alto-based medical center by courier.

7.   The medical center is on one level .

8.   The test is expensive and available only at certain medical centers.

9.   These forces are putting pressure on academic medical centers such as Columbia and its College of Physicians and Surgeons.

10.   Under the direction of chief executive officer Roberto Rodriguez, the medical center is in the process of reinventing itself.