News tagged with journal of general internal medicine
Related topics: patients , blood pressure , health care system , primary care physicians , depression
Do patients pay when they leave against medical advice?
(Medical Xpress) -- There are ways in which patients who leave the hospital against medical advice wind up paying for that decision. Being saddled with the full cost of their hospital stay, however, is not one of them.
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Feb 06, 2012 |
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New study finds potential link between daily consumption of diet soft drinks and risk of vascular events
Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues ...
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Jan 31, 2012 |
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Blood pressure monitoring: Room for improvement
Because some clinicians fail to stick to official recommendations for blood pressure monitoring, a number of patients are misclassified, which could have an impact on decisions about their treatment. According to Gretchen ...
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Dec 12, 2011 |
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Depression and anxiety not linked to delayed resolution of abnormal mammograms, Pap tests
In what is believed to be the first study of its kind to examine the relationship between pre-existing depression (with and without anxiety) and the amount of time to diagnostically resolve an abnormal mammogram and/or Pap ...
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Nov 22, 2011 |
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Older adults in home health care at elevated risk for unsafe meds
Older adults receiving home health care may be taking a drug that is unsafe or ineffective for someone their age. In fact, nearly 40 percent of seniors receiving medical care from a home health agency are taking at least ...
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Nov 21, 2011 |
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No difference in side-effects when switching or adding antidepressants
Patients with major depression who fail to see improvement after taking an antidepressant often have their initial medication switched or combined with a second drug. Many clinicians weigh the possibility ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Obesity and depression independently increase health costs
Obesity and depression both dramatically increase health care costs, but they mainly act separately, according to a study published in the November 2011 Journal of General Internal Medicine by Group Health Research Instit ...
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Oct 31, 2011 |
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Hospital patients suffer in shift shuffle
Patient handovers have increased significantly as a result of the restrictions on the number of hours residents are allowed to work. Multiple shift changes, and resulting consecutive sign-outs, during patient handovers are ...
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Oct 20, 2011 |
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New testing program improves scores, knowledge retention for third-year internal medicine residents
An analysis by University of Cincinnati (UC) faculty members shows that a multiple-choice testing program coupled with a novel year-long clinical experience helps internal medicine residents improve their scores on the Internal ...
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Oct 11, 2011 |
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Elderly patients may be undertreated for prostate cancer
It's an ongoing debate: Should men over a certain age be treated for prostate cancer? Should these patients be submitted to treatments that may result in significant side effects if they may not live very much longer?
Cancer
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Diabetics less likely to get contraceptive services, study finds
Women with diabetes are less likely than women without chronic diseases to get contraceptive counseling or use reversible contraceptives, according to a study led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researcher ...
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Sep 22, 2011 |
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Uninsured patients in Mass. still mainly the working poor, despite state's health reform
Despite the implementation of the Massachusetts health care reform designed to bolster employer-based insurance and to provide no-cost or low-cost insurance to those unable to afford it, the uninsured in Massachusetts remain ...
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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Referral decisions differ between primary care physicians and specialists
How do physicians decide which colleague to refer their patient to? It differs depending on whether you ask primary care or specialist physicians, according to research from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, ...
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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New limits on physician training hours could prove costly for US teaching hospitals
The new limits on hours that physicians-in-training can work will prove costly for U.S teaching hospitals, which will need to spend up to $1.3 billion a year, and possibly more, to effect the changes, a new UCLA study suggests.
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Sep 08, 2011 |
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Integrated health care delivery system and electronic health records support medication adherence
People who receive medical care in an integrated health care system with electronic health records linked to its own pharmacy more often collect their new prescriptions for diabetes, cholesterol and high blood pressure medications ...
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Sep 06, 2011 |
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