Patients newly diagnosed with HIV are more likely to enter outpatient care with case management
...rcent more likely to visit an HIV clinician in the outpatient setting at least twice within the first year following diagnosis. The findings were published in the March 4 issue of the journal AIDS. The ARTAS study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), randomized 316 recently diagnose...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ently by properly trained family physicians in the outpatient setting. With the increasing demand for colonoscopy screening outstripping the capacity of gastroenterologists, these findings should encourage more family physicians to seek training in this procedure. Outpatient Colonoscopy by Rural Family Physici...Explosion of child obesity predicted to shorten us life expectancy
...ic and adolescent inpatient beds and comprehensive outpatient programs, Children's houses the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center, where its discoveries benefit both children and adults. More than 500 scientists, including eight members of the National Academy of Sciences, ni...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...the centralization of information on inpatient and outpatient services, as well as cost data. Further, the ISOD is created annually, allowing for trend analysis of cohorts of people. Affective aprosodia responsive to behavioral treatments, pg 93 This study investigates the effects of two treatments for affe...Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
... in from inpatient hospital wards in order to gain outpatient care experience. However, to ensure consistent care for clinic patients, a core team of HIV specialists was eventually created to staff the clinic and train junior staff as HIV care providers. All ARV clinic staff members involved in patient care rec...Cryoablation is effective in treating cancer patients' pain
... is being treated," he said. "This is generally an outpatient procedure, and all patients tolerated the procedure well," Dr. Dupuy said. One patient who had cancer in her brachial plexus did suffer some nerve damage in her arm. The patient had been told that nerve damage was a possibility, but she chose to have...$4 million grant boosts University of Michigan campaign for a new children's hospital
...born at the facility, and there were about 350,000 outpatient visits by children and infants to U-M clinics. Plus, demand for Mott surgical services has increased an average of 5 percent to 10 percent each year.The proposed new facility will house Mott's current services, as well as the Michigan Congenital Hear...More training needed to care for growing geriatric population
...ifted that trend. Now, more than 50 percent of all outpatient visits by geriatric patients are to nonprimary-care specialists." The authors reviewed program requirements of 91 specialties accredited by the residency review committees of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). They fou...Elderly receiving inappropriate prescriptions from their doctor's office
...hat errors like these are common among the elderly outpatient population. Questions still remain as to whether identifying these inappropriate drugs will likely lead to improved use of medications....UIC offers new weight loss surgery for obese teens
...ly, requiring only small keyhole incisions, during outpatient surgery. It offers several advantages over gastric bypass surgery, including reduced pain, a shorter hospital stay and recovery period. During LAP-BAND surgery, an adjustable silicone band is placed around the stomach to help the patient lose weight...Use of cell phone images appears feasible for visualizing leg wounds
...Over the course of three months, patients at their outpatient clinic, a total of 52 patients with 61 chronic wounds were evaluated by a physician who also took two images of the leg ulcer, an overview image covering the lower leg and the ulcer and a close-up picture covering the leg ulcer with surrounding skin....Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...iac surgeries 15 percent increase in cardiology outpatient visits 10 percent increase in vascular surgeries "People in Chicago should know that we already have the infrastructure in place to manage any cardiac problem and within the next few months we will launch an LVAD (Left Ventricular Assist Device) ...Morbidly obese pay nearly twice as much for health care
...ted from greater spending on visits to the doctor, outpatient hospital care, inpatient care and prescription drugs, the researchers say. "The economic burden of morbid obesity among U.S. adults is substantial," says David Arterburn, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine and researcher at the Institute fo...Electronic medical records reduce hours, cut cost
...a clinical decision support system conducted in an outpatient health plan environment. Researchers for ActiveHealth Management evaluated the cost impact of ActiveHealth's clinical decision support tool, the CareEngine system. The CareEngine clinical decision support system compares the most up-to-date, eviden...Routine HIV screening should be expanded, study finds
...expected to be low. These include such settings as outpatient clinics, urgent care clinics or emergency rooms in...er also cited a recent study of blood samples from outpatient clinics from six different Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC) systems that found a range of 0.1...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February 2005 (first issue)
...nts who do not have P. aeruginosa infection attend outpatient clinic appointments on a different day than those who are infected. As inpatients, they are housed on the same CF ward, but in rooms with in-suite facilities. They are told not to socialize with other inpatients. According to the authors, since th...Feb. 1, 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet
...itorial, p. 215). Inpatient care is expensive, and outpatient care has some advantages in encouraging recovery. The editorial writer says that the study findings, if confirmed, should stimulate emergency departments to systematize their approach to management of community-acquired pneumonia. 4. Large Medica...Auditory screening for newborns can be successful, UT Southwestern researchers report
...s the number of false positives and that providing outpatient retesting at the birth hospital improves the numbe...ic evaluation," Dr. Shoup said. "Also, by offering outpatient rescreening first at Parkland, where the babies were born, we are encouraging parents to return to a...Longer cardiac rehab programs necessary, says U of T study
... primary arguments against prolonging the time for outpatient rehabilitation services has been cost. "Our study ... calling into question the practice of terminating outpatient programs at 12 weeks. The researchers also found that in the later period of the study, from 26 to 5......symptoms improved clinical outcomes while reducing outpatient costs by $980 per patient. In contrast, a two-year...nical outcomes beyond usual care, while increasing outpatient costs by $1,378 per patient over two years. The findings suggest a need for developing new intervent...