Most physicians agree that widespread routine influenza vaccination for young children is feasible
...za vaccine all made it more likely that they would implement this recommendation." ...Minorities worry public health system won't respond fairly in a bioterrorist event
...elfare and immigration laws in order to design and implement an effective response to a bioterrorist attack, the study says. "Improving perceptions that public health agencies will respond fairly to bioterrorism events will additionally enhance their capacity to deal with emerging natural disease outbreaks," t...VA beats managed care for diabetes, study finds
...ty the most, so that managed care health plans can implement these in the most cost effective manner," says sen...g individually with fewer resources and often must implement change one step at a time. In addition to Kerr and Mangione, study authors were Sarah Krein, Ph.D., ...Isolated soy protein shown to benefit type 2 diabetics, study indicates
...lts suggest that a dietary modification as easy to implement as consuming soy-protein-rich foods may help to prevent diabetic kidney disease in addition to improving blood-lipid profile," Teixeira said. "This is quite important in light of the growing diabetic population, and larger trials are warranted to con...Childbirth and disasters discussed in July/Aug issue of Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
...echnologies are effective and developing skills to implement those interventions can increase the quality of care in the midst of adverse circumstances." Articles in the special supplement describe various approaches for maternal and reproductive health services in refugee and displaced populations; policy iss...Generics slow rising cost of prescription drugs in 2003
...out shifting costs to members. Plan sponsors that implement GenericsWork can increase generic fill rate up to 70% and keep drug spending increases to less than 5% for the succeeding three years backed up by guarantees from Express Scripts. "With our industry leading generic utilization rate, Exp...ICU physicians save hospitals money
...theless, there has been little organized effort to implement intensivist staffing in the United States. A targ... intensivist model. I have seen several hospitals implement an intensivist model without hiring new intensivists by simply integrating existing physician groups...Improving health care for children with special needs
...w Hampshire who used their program to identify and implement changes to improve the care they deliver to children with special health care needs. The concept of community-based "medical homes" places where care is managed through coordination of clinicians, educators, therapists, healthcare professionals, and...Oral History Research Office and NYU Child Study Center receive grant for oral history project
...write a curriculum guide for educators who want to implement "The Telling Lives" program in their classrooms....Computer prescribing systems risk patient safety
...e explicit regulations about when suppliers should implement alerts, say the authors. This would require regular dialogue between suppliers and users. Many of the problems uncovered could be resolved, and this work is now being undertaken by the National Patient Safety Agency, they conclude. Although computers...Specialized care from hospital to home improves the health of elderly with heart failure
...s report that a major health insurer will begin to implement the Penn team's model of care in New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania this summer. Older adults at high risk for poor outcomes will participate in the test marketing to verify the researchers' quality of care and cost findings in the commercial mark...Patients report high levels of trust in medical specialists
...of these questions." Dr. Levine also notes that to implement tactics to improve patients' trust in their physicians, time is required. "The problem is that to get from 80 percent of patients to 'trust completely' to 95 percent (where I would like to be) requires time. I believe that the health 'system' we wo...Increase in prevalence of marijuana abuse and dependence
...ention and intervention efforts and to develop and implement widely new programs with the sex, racial/ethnic, and age differentials observed in this study in mind. Specifically, programs targeting young adults, especially black and Hispanic young adults, need to be designed and tested for their effectiveness a...Not guilty! Evidence exonerates 328, but many still falsely imprisoned
...and perjury. According to Gross, the police should implement different tactics to reduce the danger of false convictions based on different types of faulty information. For instance, convictions based on false confessions could be greatly reduced by videotaping police interrogations so that judges and juries c...Heart disease and stroke hit younger in developing countries, new report shows
...Macroeconomics and Health. The Task Force seeks to implement the recommendations of the World Health Organization's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, which was chaired by Professor Sachs. The Commission's 2001 report, "Investing in Health for Economic Development," shows that, in addition to reducing su...Doctor attacks South African government for failing women while spending billions on arms deals
...ney on "luxuries" such as defence while failing to implement a basic breast screening policy that could prevent...an unaffordable utopia that would be impossible to implement due to a lack of skilled mammogram readers. Therefore, I suggested a nurse-based clinical service, ...Going low tech, low cost to ease the terrors of dementia
... a flurry of low-cost ideas that staff members can implement in a harried environment to lessen the pain residents feel as they slowly lose touch with reality. To help nursing home employees keep up, the John A. Hartford Foundation and the University of Rochester School of Nursing are working with area nursing...USP releases first-ever case study book to advance medication error prevention
.... "Without error reporting, we cannot identify and implement the system and process changes necessary to eliminate medication errors," Cousins said. "Many of the first-person accounts in this book offer situations familiar to many health care practitioners. We believe hospitals and health care institutions nat...Heart attack patients face 25% lower death risk if hospitals follow national care standards
... will help convince hospitals across the nation to implement measures like the standard orders, pocket guides, chart stickers, discharge checklists and performance reports that helped the 33 GAP hospitals improve their adherence to guidelines. And, he hopes that soon, forgetting to give a patient a guideline-r...Inpatient cardiac risk management program promotes lifestyle changes
.... The STARR program offers inpatient strategies to implement these guidelines and close the gap between physician knowledge and practice," says Laurence S. Sperling, MD., Director of Preventive Cardiology at Emory and co-author of the Emory STARR study. Based on the most recent literature and AHA/ACC recommen...