Hospitalist care destined to become dominant model of inpatient care in the US, say UCSF researchers
...est that hospitalist-generated savings come at the expense of quality, said Wachter. He explained that most studies found no change in quality measures. Two larger studies (averaging 1600 hospitalist patients per study) found significant decreases in inpatient and short-term mortality associated with hospita...Stanford researcher's uncommon approach to common cold fights cancer
...nharmed. "We want to kill the tumor but not at the expense of the patient," said Daniel Sze, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiology at Stanford. Sze will present his findings April 8 at the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology annual scientific meeting in Baltimore. Thirty-five ca...Implantable defibrillators cost-effective for preventing sudden death
...ated. The researchers determined that the largest expense for these patients is inpatient care, which makes up between 73 percent of total costs for drug therapy patients and 84 percent for ICD patients. At three years, the cost for the drug treatment group was $71,421. For the defibrillator group it was ...Drug reduces hallucinations and improves cognitive performance for Parkinson's patients
...f rivastigmine therapy did not seem to come at the expense of patients motor control, said Reading. Further study will be required to investigate the potentially reversible cholinergic deficits in this patient group and their likely involvement in neuropsychiatric symptomology....Estrogen may dictate what problem-solving strategy brain uses
...s that estrogen is enhancing place learning at the expense of response learning. Both these task scenarios are important, because they reveal that estrogen isnt just up- or down-regulating something. It is shifting what individuals are good at solving without estrogen, they still are good at something. A ...Insurers should pay for children's costly cancer treatments
...analyzing data to determine what is an unnecessary expense versus what is a very large, but justifiable, expense. " Large companies start the chain of events by pressuring medical insurers to keep down their costs per employee covered, added Breitfeld. Companies won't select a high-priced insurer, so insure...Some patients with breast cancer face unacceptable delays
...eeing urgent cases within the time has been at the expense of the non-urgent cases. Waiting times in this group have increased to 12 weeks in some units. By grading patient referrals, we are creating a two tier structure, with patients in the non-urgent group waiting longer periods for diagnosis and treatmen...Council tax could be used to measure health status
...wnership is flawed because cars are an unavoidable expense for poor families in rural communities. Finding a better measure of socio-economic status could help the NHS allocate its resources more effectively and ultimately reduce the differences in health between rich and poor. With this in mind, Norman Bea...Emory researchers find more expensive heart treatment not so costly in long run
...and other colleagues found that the initial higher expense for the aggressive approach diminishes over six months as patients treated with the conservative approach incur more medical and other expenses. The Emory researchers, working in conjunction with Christopher P. Cannon, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hos...Tired medical professionals working long hours may put patients at risk
...a and Howard. One study, published in 1994, noted expense between $1.4 and $1.8 billion per year nationwide. "There's no way you can respond to the issue of fatigued clinicians without causing major changes in the organizational structure of the way work gets done," Gaba said. "And some of these changes a...Heart devices, transplants have similar costs; what will we pay?
...to address as a society is whether it is worth the expense to put these devices in patients. Our study tells us that these costs are comparable to heart transplantation and liver transplantation ($205,000 and $250,000), which society is already willing to pay for. "The costs, from my perspective, are less...Robotic heart surgery: making repairs without lifting the hood
...n. Patients are going to insist on it despite the expense because its cosmetically superior and allows for much faster recovery. For certain procedures, like the ASD repair, its already proving to be a worthy alternative to conventional surgery. The researchers found that robot-assisted endoscopic hea...New evaluation of osteoporosis therapies
...ot markedly change the level of GI-related medical expense or number of inpatient visits that these patients experienced. Analysis Details The economic evaluation was conducted with a large medical and pharmaceutical claims database licensed from the health care consulting service, Protocare Sciences....Physicians not 'easy marks' for drug sales reps, argues O.R. study
...ten the losers in the samples war, incurring great expense by distributing free samples purely as a defensive marketing tactic to maintain market share....Could a mandated food additive aimed at better fetal development be a risk for seniors?
...tain that such laudable efforts do not come at the expense of inadvertent harm to others....Stanford researchers weigh risks vs. benefits of self-referred body scanning
...s. On the surface, this may seem like a worthwhile expense for health-minded individuals, but Stanford University Medical Center researchers believe the benefits of scanning remain unclear while the risks are coming into sharper focus. In a paper to be published in the August issue of the journal Radiology,...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for August 2003 (first issue)
...he doctor should never provide medical care at the expense of the patient's self-esteem. Although pharmacotherapy for weight loss in the past has been fraught with inappropriate practices, two drugs, Sibutramine and Orlistat, have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use with patients ...Comfort-food cravings may be body's attempt to put brake on chronic stress
...leeping a little more to calm down, perhaps at the expense of gaining a few pounds," says Pecoraro. "But seeking a long-term solution in comfort foods - rather than fixing the source of the stress or your relationship to the source of the stress -- is going to be bad for you." Stress, of course, is a strateg...Medical experts say cataract and refractive surgeries merging
... because there will be "a dramatic decrease in the expense of cataract surgery."...Combination, order of anti-HIV drugs make a difference in first-time recipients
...increases the potency of a drug combination at the expense of increasing the risk of toxicity or drug resistance. Because participants were exposed to three drug classes in the initial regimen, there was no second regimen. Therefore, the primary measure of success was the amount of time before the initial tr...