Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...ans practice in small, independent groups of 10 or fewer physicians. To complicate matters, in 2001, 75 per... in rural areas where health care is divided among fewer separate entities. The use of an electronic health record has potential to decrease the amount of m...Brain tumor treatment can vary greatly, according to new JAMA study
...ery were consistent. But the study also found that fewer than 70 percent of patients who participated in the survey received chemotherapy, despite research findings that it is a useful therapy for brain tumors. Other findings also raised concerns, according to Chang. Eighty-nine percent of brain-tumor pat...Research guides medication choices for young Asthma patients
...telukast were generally younger and had asthma for fewer years than those who did not respond to either medication. Response to fluticasone but not montelukast was associated with more use and greater response to bronchodilator rescue medications, higher levels of the inflammatory marker exhaled nitric ox...Background 'DWI' checks effective
...parts without a DWI history, then approximately 25 fewer aviation crashes would happen each year," says Li. According to the researchers, however, the vast majority of pilots with DWI histories (99 percent) flew safely, free of any crash involvement. "There are several possible reasons why people who drin...... to give up their annual screening habit, and even fewer think they would eventually stop screening. In an editorial in the same issue, George Sawaya, MD, University of California, San Francisco, emphasizes, "Sirovich and colleagues have garnered the all-important perspective of individual US women. The r...Preschoolers not getting enough fiber
...ich diets. However, all children in the study ate fewer dairy servings than recommended by the Food Guide Pyramid. Dr. Sibylle Kranz, assistant professor of nutritional sciences who led the study, says, "There is clinical evidence that children with low fiber intakes are at risk of chronic constipation. ...Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...ean counterparts. This means obese people burn 350 fewer calories a day than do lean people. James Levine, M.D., is the Mayo Clinic endocrinologist who led the study. His research team explored the specific links between inactivity, low energy expenditure and obesity in an effort to devise new treatment...Clinical trial of Etanercept for Wegener's disease shows no benefit
...rcent in the control group. In the trial overall, fewer than 50% of the patients achieved and maintained remissions for the duration of the study. There were also no differences between groups in the numbers of patients who experienced severe or limited disease flares. Twenty-three patients in the etane...Reviparin effective in reducing risk of death after heart attack
...red with the reductions in the primary outcome (18 fewer per 1,000) or mortality (15 fewer per 1,000). "Reviparin is considerably less expensive than other antithrombotic agents, such as biva...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ill experience a depressive episode by age 24, yet fewer than 20 percent receive high-quality care. In a cross-sectional study of 10,962 young adults aged 16 to 29 years with significant depressive symptoms, more than one quarter (26 percent) of the participants said they did not intend to accept their phy...Study links racial and ethnic gap in youth violence to social factors
...s with much higher levels of risk for violence and fewer protective factors than the neighborhoods where other racial and ethnic groups tend to live. "Neighborhoods where more people have professional or managerial jobs are protective against violence," says Morenoff, a sociologist at the U-M Institute for...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...eir pain, had less trouble falling asleep, and had fewer depressive symptoms than younger members of their racial group. Even after the researchers corrected for differences in the number of months the patients had lived with their pain, and for differences in gender, marital status and education, the effe...Researchers map the sexual network of an entire high school
...189) were involved in networks containing three or fewer students. There were very few components of intermediate size (4 to 15) students. While many students were connected to much larger networks, they probably didn't see it that way, Moody said. In fact, they probably had no idea of their connections to...Vaginal hysterectomy leads to better outcomes than abdominal surgery
...lleagues, women who had vaginal hysterectomies had fewer infections and high temperatures after surgery com...hysterectomies, such as shorter hospital stays and fewer complications like infection. They also noted, however, that laparoscopic hysterectomies are longer ...Study shows drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex were widely over-used long before recent problems
...l anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), but they cause fewer of the gastrointestinal side effects that often trouble long-term high-dose NSAID users. In exchange for reduced GI risk, however, they cost 10 to 15 times as much as the drugs they replaced. Within a year of being introduced, these drugs were bri...Adding radiation therapy to chemotherapy improves survival in patients with high-risk breast cancer
...on therapy in breast cancer patients and note that fewer clinicians accept its use in moderate-risk patients. "Because uncertainties continue about the effectiveness of locoregional radiation therapy after mastectomy in moderate-risk patients, we strongly urge that a randomized controlled trial be mounted ...Program effective at reducing depression in teens
...d with usual care patients, reported significantly fewer depressive symptoms (average CES-D scores, 19.0 vs. 21.4), higher mental healthrelated quality of life (average MCS-12 scores, 44.6 vs. 42.8), and greater satisfaction with mental health care (average scores, 3.8 vs. 3.5). Intervention patients also ...Collaborative care, training boosts adolescent depression treatment in primary care clinics
...e depression (31 percent vs. 42 percent), reported fewer depressive symptoms, improved quality of life, and greater satisfaction with their mental health care. They also received more mental health care, particularly psychotherapy (32 percent vs. 21 percent). When offered a choice of treatments, there was ...2001-2002 survey finds that many recover from alcoholism
...tory of alcoholism and persons who had experienced fewer symptoms of dependence. The greater the peak quantity of alcohol consumed, the lower the likelihood of either type of recovery. In addition, having a personality disorder was associated with a lower likelihood of abstinent recovery. Treatment for alc...... (the "bad" cholesterol), increased HDL levels and fewer cardiovascular events than those who took placebo pills (Article, p. 95). All participants followed a heart healthy diet and lost weight. Since the anti-lipid drug regimen, with beneficial lifestyle changes, improved all lipid prof...