Archive for the ‘Primary Care’ Category
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Level I trauma centers may have very different results when treating patients, even when they have similar injuries. This was analyzed in a report on February 18, 2008 in the Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Trauma centers have been established in most states, thanks to years of dedicated ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Level I trauma centers may have very different results when treating patients, even when they have similar injuries. This was analyzed in a report on February 18, 2008 in the Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Trauma centers have been established in most states, thanks to years of dedicated ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Service Employees International Union has said Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a not-for-profit institution, incorrectly included bad debt in its accounting of what charity care it provided in 2005 and 2006 and should restate the value of charity care in those years, the New York Times reports.
SEIU Executive Vice ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Foreign-born physicians working in Ohio through the J-1 visa program are practicing at larger hospitals such as the Cleveland Clinic, rather than in the rural or inner-city areas that the program is intended to serve, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The national J-1 visa program allows states to recruit up ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs -- "now a mainstay of newspapers, magazines, and TV and radio broadcasts" -- has "altered the doctor-patient relationship" by "forcing" physicians to "respond to people's demands for heavily touted drugs," rather than "taking the initiative in suggesting treatment," Los Angeles Times columnist David Lazarus writes. ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
The Los Angeles Times on Tuesday examined the effects of a 2002 California law that requires the state Department of Managed Health Care to ensure HMO patients have timely access to appointments with physicians. According to the Times, enactment of the law "has not been prompt," and DMHC released its ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
The UK government has launched a campaign to remind doctors and the public about the correct use of antibiotics. Doctors should make it clear to patients that antibiotics don't get rid of the common cold, said the announcement from the Department of Health yesterday, Monday 4th February.
The last national education ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England have completed research suggesting that patients feel that doctors providing out of hours services in primary care are reluctant to do home visits.
Researchers held group discussions and carried out telephone interviews with 27 patients who had recently used ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Family doctors earned on average £110,000 during 2005/06, according to figures published yesterday by The Information Centre for health and social care.
An analysis of tax returns for contracted GPs in the UK found that their (pre-tax) net profits rose by an average of 9.8 per cent in 2005/06, compared to ...
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