Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: high quality care http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Post-hospital care the weak link in trauma system The first study to examine in detail the experience of patients in Victoria's trauma system has found that post-discharge care and poor communication were low points in an otherwise high-quality experience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-post-hospital-weak-link-trauma.html Other Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:01:58 EST news280396894 Patients with diabetes may not receive best treatment to lower heart disease risk For some people with diabetes, there may be such a thing as too much care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-patients-diabetes-treatment-heart-disease.html Diabetes Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:17:55 EST news275051867 Results from world's first registry of pregnancy and heart disease Results from the world's first registry of pregnancy and heart disease have shown that most women with heart disease can go through pregnancy and delivery safely, so long as they are adequately evaluated, counselled and receive high quality care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-results-world-registry-pregnancy-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:20:01 EST news266598263 Investing in quality of care for diabetic patients reduces costs University of Minnesota School of Public Health researchers have found that medical group practices can reduce costs for patients with diabetes by investing in improved quality of care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-investing-quality-diabetic-patients.html Health Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:20:01 EST news263487713 Internists say physician-led quality initiatives could be solution to Medicare payment problems "Repeal of Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) is essential, but repeal by itself will not move Medicare to better ways to deliver care," David L. Bronson, MD, FACP, president of the American College of Physicians (ACP), today told the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health. "We need to transition from a fundamentally broken physician payment system to one that is based on the value of services to patients, building on physician-led initiatives to improve outcomes and lower costs." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-internists-physician-led-quality-solution-medicare.html Health Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:32:32 EST news262351914 Patient care by residents is as good as by fully qualified doctors Medical residents are an essential part of the hospital workforce. Although still in training the take on much of the day to day care of patients. A systematic review published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows that patient by properly supervised residents care is safe and of equal quality to that of fully trained doctors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-patient-residents-good-fully-doctors.html Health Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:25:02 EST news260072694 Patients at small, isolated, rural hospitals in US more likely to receive lower quality of care In the first national study to examine care at critical access hospitals (CAHs) in rural areas of the U.S., Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that CAHs have fewer clinical capabilities, lower quality of care, and worse patient outcomes compared with other hospitals. The researchers found that patients admitted to a CAH for heart attack, congestive heart failure, or pneumonia were at greater risk of dying within 30 days than those at other hospitals. The study shows that despite more than a decade of policy efforts to improve rural health care, substantial challenges remain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-patients-small-isolated-rural-hospitals.html Health Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:03:04 EST news229104158 Medicaid managed care plans owned by public companies have higher adminstrative costs A new Commonwealth Fund report finds that Medicaid managed care plans that are owned by publicly traded for-profit companies whose primary line of business is managing Medicaid enrollees spent an average of 14 percent of premiums on administrative costs, compared with an average of only 10 percent spent by non-publicly traded plans owned by groups of health care providers, health systems, community health centers, or clinics. Sampling health plans with at least 5,000 enrollees resulted in an initial sample of 225 Medicaid managed care plans representing 23.8 million enrollees. The numbers of plans reporting quality of care measures was limited and varied by measure. Only 27 percent of the publicly traded Medicaid-only plans reported quality measures and scored lower on these measures compared to non-publicly traded plans; they scored 13 percentage points lower when it came to managing chronic illness, and 11 percentage points lower on a composite score measuring preventive care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-medicaid-companies-higher-adminstrative.html Health Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:23:03 EST news227330559 Not all hospitals treat elderly the same Hospitals that provide quality care for young people do not always provide the same quality care for the elderly, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-hospitals-elderly.html Other Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:40:01 EST news226317663