Major overhaul needed in end-of life care for patients with dementia
...er, is a nationwide effort to "align the financial incentives in the system with the provision of palliative care." The authors suggest relaxing the criteria for hospice to accommodate earlier referral of patients with dementia. Nursing homes should be financially rewarded for providing good end-of-life care ...Federal policy has failed to prepare nation for possibility of bioterrorism
...concerted government push -- using direct economic incentives -- to overcome the widespread apathy to the smallp... in pest houses and quarantined ships. Today, cash incentives are less important to doctors than protection from skyrocketing malpractice insurance costs. The Sw...Why is Ian Kennedy's healthcare commission damaging NHS care?
...nt improving the quality of services. The perverse incentives your commission has introduced encourage manipulation of figures to meet targets that may bear little relation to local priorities. And the power that you wield has inculcated an environment of prejudice, anxiety, and resignation into the workplace. ...Tobacco sponsorship of Formula One must stop, say health experts
.... These unfortunate practices reduce the financial incentives for teams to find alternative sponsors, exacerbated by the FIA's recent abandonment of its earlier commitment to become tobacco-free in 2006. This is arguably detrimental to the future of the sport, but is certainly damaging to global health. Driver...Pediatricians are plentiful, but not in poorer states
...ns, but we need to make sure that society provides incentives for physicians to locate and practice in areas tha...be useful to policy makers who may want to provide incentives and opportunities for pediatricians and other health professionals to operate in shortage areas, or ...Chronic diseases need global health attention
...siness models, and encourage creation of codes and incentives for healthy foreign investment. Coordinated and focused emphasis on chronic disease prevention with intensified attention to tobacco, unhealthy diets and physical activity, "is essential to address the enormity of the burden of those who now survive ...Computer system makes 'chain' of health care stronger, safer
... patient safety. "It's a rare situation where the incentives of all the important stakeholders all fall in line those who pay the bills, the hospital administration, clinicians in and out of the hospital, and the patients themselves," says Mark Fendrick, M.D., a professor of internal medicine and health manag...Patients report high levels of trust in medical specialists
...th care system that provides appropriate financial incentives to achieve this better delivery system." (Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:930-932. Available post-embargo at archinternmed.com )...Researchers seek solutions to impending U.S. long-term care facility staffing crisis
...so that there isn't career progress, and almost no incentives to encourage them to stay." Establishing career ladders and providing in-service training -- and establishing ways of making both a key part of nursing home operations -- should ease staffing problems or at least keep them from getting much ...Study finds few new antibiotics are in the pipeline
... the problem will worsen in the future, unless new incentives are developed to spur antibiotic R&D. "This may require remedies similar to approaches that have been taken in the arena of anti-cancer drugs and bioterrorism," said John E. Edwards, Jr., MD, also of Harbor-UCLA. Dr. Edwards serves on a task force of...Medical societies report critical care crisis in United States
...y in critical care; advise policymakers to develop incentives to attract health-care professionals to critical care; and encourage policymakers to sponsor research that defines the optimal role of a critical care specialist in the delivery of critical care. In their accompanying white paper, the four critical c...Teen-rated video games loaded with violence
...dren and adolescents, and that these games provide incentives to players to commit simulated acts of violence. They urge parents to judge for themselves the appropriateness of game content, both by using the ESRB rating information and by experiencing the game with their child. "We see the convergence of media ...USP releases first-ever case study book to advance medication error prevention
...ion among departments and disciplines; and provide incentives for participating in the medication safety reporting system. USP operates MEDMARX, the national, Internet-accessible anonymous reporting database that hospitals and health care systems use to track and trend medication errors. Hospitals and health ca...Los Angeles kids benefit from new asthma identification process
...rds to survey return rates, researchers found that incentives increased survey return rates from 35.3 percent to 65 percent. In addition, the percentage of classroom return rates increased from 9.3 percent to 27.5 percent. "The impact of asthma on inner-city children is quite severe, particularly am...Study shows United States may have more pediatricians than it needs for the next 20 years
...e United States than in others. "We need to find incentives that will motivate pediatricians to provide care i...ors, but will require an alignment of training and incentives that target needed improvements in access and quality of care." Another way the researchers sugges...The future of drug development
...n in the pace of discovery. There are also strong incentives to develop drugs that have little if any increase in efficacy over existing drugs--so-called me-too drugs. And it is not surprising that many of the major global health challenges, which tend to affect poorer nations, receive short shrift from compa...Ratings of teen-rated video games do not always fully describe content
...s an issue of the rating system failing to provide incentives to game manufacturers to include positive health messages in games. Based on the wide range of content observed and the absence of some content descriptors, the authors recommended that the ESRB consider using additional age-based categories in its r...Should compulsory screening of immigrants be part of UK public health policy?
...roposed) then might such a screening policy create incentives to avoid legal routes of entry? The United Kingdom has an enviable reputation in international public health, says the author. It would be a shame if this reputation was tarnished through an ill considered conflation of immigration control and commun...Patients with diabetes have poor control of risk factors for vascular disease
...ove the quality of care they receive, and building incentives for providing comprehensive care into the health care delivery system are essential to translating into practice the therapies that have been proven effective in reducing the risk of vascular disease in individuals with diabetes," the authors conclud......mation and tools to improve therapy and to provide incentives for the comprehensive care that has been proven effective in reducing diabetes complications," said coauthor Dr. Judith Fradkin, director of NIDDK's Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases Division....