Beta blockers cost effective to society for heart failure treatment
...t hospitals and physicians have no clear financial incentives to support increased beta blocker use. Changes in practice patterns could be encouraged, however, by linking reimbursement with evidenced-based care and covering patients' medication costs." The annual treatment costs for heart failure in the Uni...Trials on hormone therapy and hypertension treatment change practice, medication usage of patients
...que micro- and macro-sociology, where the economic incentives are not infrequently perverse. Prescribers must individualize therapy and consider combinations of drugs for which randomized evidence may be limited," he writes. "The pharmaceutical industry markets its wares relentlessly to physicians and cons...UNC study reveals few problems banning smoking at NC schools
... for districts following the TFS model and perhaps incentives for doing so. ...Dependent older patients may cost hospitals more
...ue in other hospitals, they suggest that there are incentives for hospitals to discriminate against patients with lower functional status." Medicare designs its reimbursement system to pay providers fairly and to ensure that no groups of patients are financial winners or losers for hospitals. Payments to hospit...National vaccine advisory committee issues recommendations to strengthen supply of routine vaccines
...her study are: evaluation of appropriate financial incentives to manufacturers to sustain supply of existing vaccines and stimulate development of new vaccines; and streamline regulatory process without compromising safety or efficacy(JAMA. 2003;290:3122-3128. Available post-embargo at JAMA.com )...Elderly women over-screened for cancers with little measurable benefit
...commendations in low-risk populations and increase incentives in high-risk populations to possibly use our health care dollars more wisely and deliver better health care to all populations." Ostbye says that part of the problem is that clinical guidelines for the elderly are often ambiguous and research includi...Most hospitals don't use latest ordering technology
...pite a wide array of quality, policy and financial incentives to use CPOE, fewer than 10 percent of American hospitals make it completely available to their physicians. This was among the findings of a study conducted by researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine and recently publi...Debate on payments to potential kidney donors: Yes or no?
...on. Questions will include: Do you favor financial incentives for donor families who consent to deceased donor transplantation? For live donor transplantation, should the donor be compensated financially? As the largest nephrology meeting of its kind, Renal Week 2003 is expected to draw more than 11,000 nephro...Data on global vaccination coverage paints overoptimistic picture
...ek health-information systems, and the presence of incentives for over-reporting. Bakhuti Shengelia comments: "We believe that these findings have implications for efforts to gather information on the coverage of other health interventions. Worldwide, the effort to obtain valid and reliable information on vacci...North American mammographers prone to more false positives, study finds
...rmal mammogram. Malpractice concerns and financial incentives may also be contributing to the variation in mammography interpretations, they say. "Currently, it is not possible to determine which features may be most responsible for the variability," the authors write, adding that "a better understanding of t...July/August 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...le VII and VIII, and through policies that provide incentives to training programs that prepare clinicians to practice in underserved communities. Who is Caring for the Underserved? A Comparison of Primary Care Physicians and Nonphysician Clinicians in California and Washington By Kevin Grumbach, M.D., et al...ACPM issues recommendations to address severe shortage of preventive medicine physicians
...se Control and Prevention should provide financial incentives to hire preventive medicine-trained physicians in densely populated jurisdictions. Preventive medicine is one of the 24 medical specialties approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties, the nationally recognized body that approves medical s...Conference considers compensating organ donors
...he University of Chicago, will argue that monetary incentives offered to living donors could increase the supply of organs for transplant "sufficiently to eliminate the long queues in the organ market" without significantly raising the total cost of a transplant. Until now, discussion of paying for organs has...Transition to mental health carveouts disrupts care for most fragile
... was clear that carve-out programs need to include incentives for increasing the quality of care as well as containing costs. This was missing in the original Tennessee carveout," he says. Sixteen other states currently have similar carveout systems. In a cost-saving move in 1996, thousands of Tennesseans r...School changes could help kids be more active, eat better
...ore attention could be given to removing financial incentives for school food services to sell less-than-healthful foods. Schools need to make sure PE is particularly attractive for girls, Sallis says, but it is important to provide more programs and supervision for physical activity throughout the school day. ...Health Affairs forum explores new hospital-tier insurance plans
...ing insurers to design coverage products that give incentives to cost-conscious consumers to choose lower-cost facilities," Robinson says. "This will put indirect pressure on hospitals to moderate their prices." According to Jill M. Yegian, senior program officer with CHCF, "Tiering and other changes in produc...Primary care in the United States in crisis
...ation of medical care is structured to accommodate incentives in the reimbursement system and the preferences of providers, often with patients' needs included only as an afterthought. 2. The goal of primary care systems should be the delivery of the highest quality care as documented by measurable outcomes. Th...Millions of Americans are failing to get recommended health care
...rmation technology in place and are given external incentives such as financial rewards, public recognition or b..., one in three physician groups reported having no incentives to improve quality. "We know incentives work, but for the most part, they are not being used," said...Rising cost of cigarettes may help smokers honor new years resolution to quit
...ngs clearly demonstrate the importance of economic incentives in promoting smoking cessation," says Dr. Chaloupka. He adds that higher cigarette prices and anti-tobacco legislation will lead many current smokers to quit smoking, and when coupled with increased access to cessation services and products, even la...Patients with chronic illness not benefiting from advances in care
...anding clinical information systems, and financial incentives to reward practices that improve the care and outcomes of patients with chronic disease, they conclude....