Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
... have correct perceptions of the accuracy of their diagnoses at the time they make them, and in significant num...linicians' use of outside resources in determining diagnoses and making other medical decisions. These resources include colleagues, medical books, journals and ...HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK
...ertinent to the recent increase again in new HIV-1 diagnoses within the UK. "Our study also contradicts assumptions that the HIV-1 epidemic is composed of smaller, independent epidemics defined by risk group, where we have found evidence for at least six larger sub-epidemics, which HIV monitoring, prevention ...HIV testing should no longer be accorded any special status
...elling and denial by patients has resulted in late diagnoses and ongoing spread of infection, they say. They propose that if a patient freely consents to be investigated, a doctor can initiate tests aimed at excluding serious diseases without an in-depth discussion of all possible results, provided that the te...Gender a factor in who gets bypass surgery
...tion may be a gender bias. Controlling for primary diagnoses of heart attack, obstructed blood flow to the heart, or angina had little effect on the gender disparity. Data from 1998 showed that among patients with heart attacks who received bypass, there were only 59 women recipients for every 100 men who rece...Increasing physician volume requirement could improve mammogram accuracy, study concludes
...gher screening focus have 50% fewer false-positive diagnoses (168 versus 320 per 2,500 examinations) and miss about one cancer per 2,500 examinations. "Most factors that influence the sensitivity of mammography are not easily modified, e.g., a woman's age, mammographic breast density, and a physician's years o...Older women can benefit from chemotherapy to treat breast cancer
...rs or older; about 50 percent of new breast cancer diagnoses occur in women in the older age group." In conclusion the authors write, "the data from this study should help to encourage clinicians to offer healthy older patients participation in newer trials, because healthy older patients are likely to derive...Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
...rams annually have 50 percent fewer false-positive diagnoses while detecting approximately one less cancer per 2,500 mammograms," the authors wrote. Smith Bindman added, "The variation we found was dramatic. We recommend explicit discussion of what the goals of mammography should be, and sooner rather than lat...Cancer in patients with hepatitis C
...n. They then collected data on the relevant cancer diagnoses among these patients for the time period from 1990 to 2000, excluding those whose HCV diagnosis was within 3 months of their cancer diagnosis. Lastly, they performed statistical analyses to compare these patients' cancer rates to those of the entire ...A new method for early detection of disease outbreaks
...rlier outbreak detection and intervention. Besides diagnoses of known diseases, other indicators--such as primary complaints of patients coming to the emergency room or calling a nurse hotline--are being collected in electronic formats and could be analyzed if suitable methods existed. Martin Kulldorff and c...South Africa in denial over number of deaths from HIV/AIDS
...family and leads doctors to record uncontroversial diagnoses on death certificates. The South African Government needs to face the truth about HIV mortality states the editorial. The Lancet comments: "Earlier this year, Nelson Mandela stepped into the limelight and was widely praised and admired for openly at...A Family's Guide to Living with HIV
...ease Control. During 2003, an estimated 32,048 new diagnoses of HIV infection were reported. Of these, 72 percent of patients were adult or adolescent males; 27 percent were among adult or adolescent females; and less than 1 percent was among children under 13....New way to diagnose sciatica may point to a different cause
... who previously failed treatment." Following their diagnoses with MR neurography, all patients received treatment that included spinal surgery, nerve or muscle surgery, open MR guided injections, or non-interventional pain management that included physical therapy and exercise. Among the 62 patients who neede...Biochip for detection of inflammatory bowel disease
...oped for the Lcer pharmaceutical company and which diagnoses family hypercholesterolemia. The Lipochip was the first biochip to obtain European Commission certificate for its diagnostic use. The Bloodchip, a biochip for genotyping blood donors, is another example. This biochip has recently started clinical tr...Study naming hospitals in top 5% for clinical quality released by HealthGrades
...t better chance of surviving common procedures and diagnoses when compared with an average hospital, according ...ital for four of the highest-volume procedures and diagnoses coronary bypass, angioplasty, stroke and community acquired pneumonia 52,949 lives could have been...Use of estrogen therapy may increase risk for gallbladder disease
...rcent of the U.S. population, with one million new diagnoses yearly. Researchers conducted this study to determine the effect of estrogen therapy in postmenopausal women on gallbladder disease outcomes. The researchers found that both trials showed greater risk of any gallbladder disease or surgery with est...New findings on patient safety at children's hospitals
...plications and deaths among patients with low-risk diagnoses -- the safety standards didn't take into account t...owed the researchers to examine the complete coded diagnoses of each case in which the initial analysis showed a patient safety issue. This allowed them to see w...Mayo Clinic study suggests no link between autism and immunizations
...ldren with autism may have been given less precise diagnoses such as "developmental delay" or "mental retardati...ient records in Olmsted County, Minn. The database diagnoses are indexed for computerized retrieval, allowing researchers to identify subjects with any developme...November/December 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ly female, have three times as many office visits, diagnoses and medications, and have eight times as many hospital admissions. The authors suggest that better targeted patient education and referral to other support services may decrease the number of calls and utilization of health services among this group....Smokers' lung cancer risk identified in CT screening study
... screening identifies a high percentage of Stage I diagnoses of lung cancer, the most curable form of lung cancer," Dr. Henschke said. "Our study found that deaths from Stage I lung cancer were surprisingly low after surgery, but only if treatment is pursued. Delaying treatment by more than six months resulted...Computer assisted standing orders improve adult immunization rates
...largely on simple criteria such as patient age and diagnoses can be done better by nurses following computer based standing orders," said Dr. Dexter, associate professor of clinical medicine. The computer can do all the work of scrutinizing the medical record to find the patients who need the preventive care...