Health Affairs
Medicare patients who use hospice receive better care at a lower cost to the government
Medicare patients who enrolled in hospice received better care at a significantly lower cost to the government than those who did not use the Medicare hospice benefit. The data indicate that annual savings to Medicare could ...
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Mar 04, 2013 |
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Quality of care measures improve performance
Public reporting of how physicians and hospitals perform in quality of care measures leads to improved care for patients. A collaborative team of researchers led by Geoffrey C. Lamb, M.D., professor of internal medicine at ...
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Mar 04, 2013 |
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Survey finds public support for legal interventions to fight obesity, noncommunicable diseases
The public is very supportive of government action aimed at changing lifestyle choices that can lead to obesity, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases—but they're less likely to support such interventions if they're ...
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Mar 04, 2013 |
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Doctor shortage to hit Chicago's poorer neighborhoods harder, study finds
Some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods are expected to see the greatest demand for additional primary care doctors in 2014, as the Affordable Care Act boosts the number of newly insured patients seeking medical services, ...
Health
Feb 28, 2013 |
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Study highlights important role that patients play in determining outcomes
When it comes to health care, patients with the motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health have better health outcomes and incur fewer health care costs.
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Feb 04, 2013 |
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'Default' options influence patient choices in advance care directives, study shows
Advance care directives allow patients to provide instructions about their preferences for the care they would like to receive if they develop an illness or a life-threatening injury and lose the capacity to make decisions ...
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Feb 04, 2013 |
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A 'nudge' can be the ethical choice
As patients and physicians share decision-making in choices among treatment options, decision aids such as videos, websites, pamphlets or books are coming to play an important role. However, in some cases, it may be ethical ...
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Feb 04, 2013 |
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Benefits, challenges of making health care safer and better: Study reviews a national initiative to 'retool'
Safety and quality seem like obvious goals for health care education. But improving the way budding doctors and nurses are taught, bringing those professions together in the classroom and clinical settings, and measuring ...
Health
Jan 29, 2013 |
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Combination pill could be cost effective in preventing heart disease
(Medical Xpress)—A single combination pill could reduce cardiovascular disease and stroke in Latin Americans by up to 21 percent at a cost of about $35 per quality adjusted life year gained, according to a study led by ...
Cardiology
Jan 16, 2013 |
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U.S. minorities less likely to get colon cancer screening
(HealthDay)—Minority patients in the United States are less likely than whites to be screened for colorectal cancer, a new study finds.
Cancer
Jan 15, 2013 |
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U.S. efforts to boost number of primary care doctors have failed
(HealthDay)—Amid signs of a growing shortage of primary care physicians in the United States, a new study shows that the majority of newly minted doctors continues to gravitate toward training positions ...
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Jan 10, 2013 |
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Black and Hispanic patients less likely to complete substance abuse treatment, study shows
Roughly half of all black and Hispanic patients who enter publicly funded alcohol treatment programs do not complete treatment, compared to 62 percent of white patients, according to a new study from a team of researchers ...
Addiction
Jan 07, 2013 |
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Electronic health records with technical assistance can improve patient care in New York City
The relationship between a physician practice's adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and quality improvements in patient care remains unclear. However, a new study published in the January issue of Health Affairs by Wei ...
Health
Jan 07, 2013 |
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More changes in health care needed to fulfill promise of health information technology
Despite wide investments nationally in electronic medical records and related tools, the cost-saving promise of health information technology has not been reached because the systems deployed are neither interconnected nor ...
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Jan 07, 2013 |
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Looming malpractice: Waiting for claims resolution takes up more than ten per cent of the average medical career
The average physician can expect to spend nearly 11 per cent of his or her career with a malpractice claim waiting to be resolved. Some specialists will spend nearly a third of their careers with open claims.
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Jan 07, 2013 |
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