New Patient Safety Officer Society will help officers reduce hospital errors
...and supports other endeavors that help connect and inform patient safety officers around the country. "Membership is free to all patient safety officers thanks to the generosity of PSOS first corporate member, Bridge Medical," noted Shulkin. "We anticipate other companies with an interest in patient safety ...Rutgers' announces Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
...s of these projects will provide fresh insights to inform the health-policy process." A 12-member national advisory committee and RWJF representatives selected the new recipients from a field of 232 applications. The new Investigator Awards recipients are: Investigators: Ronald Bayer, Ph.D., and Amy...U.S. for-profit hospitals show higher mortality rates than non-profits, analysis shows
... the meta-analysis of mortality statistics to help inform the debate underway in Canada over whether to move into the for-profit health-care-delivery arena. "Most of the debate so far has focused on economics," said P. J. Devereaux, M.D., research fellow in the departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemi...New consent rules may threaten our health
...ue that the medical profession needs to do more to inform the public about the important ways in which information about individual patients is used to protect health. They conclude that those responsible for developing guidelines on patient confidentiality and consent, and for advising doctors, must recogn...Institute will study how worker health affects productivity and profit
...work-related productivity, the institute will help inform decision makers in both the private and public hea...oductivity management. This will, in turn, better inform decision makers throughout the healthcare industry." "As such, the institute will bring together the...First multimedia resource to give patients their own voice
... uses patients actual personal experiences to help inform and support other patients and their carers, and to tell doctors what it is really like to be ill. "Many doctors have admitted that they only realised how little they understood what it was like to be ill, when they became ill themselves. That was c...Consortium aims to improve protection of human research subjects
... amidst a mounting demand for better procedures to inform research subjects of the risks of taking part in clinical trials of drugs and other treatments, said the center's participants. Also, they said, new oversight might be needed since some medical researchers have been criticized for conducting trials o...Researchers recommend community advisory boards to prevent lapses in informed consent
...side effects. In a New York study, doctors did not inform parents that their children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorders were taken off medications and subjected to brain chemistry tests. Researchers in Uganda did not tell HIV-positive patients that a tuberculosis drug they were given as part of...Study points to potential role for caffeine in reducing the risk of Parkinsons disease
...discussions to see how epidemiological studies can inform our laboratory studies and vice versa. This interdisciplinary approach is very exciting." Schwarzschild says he hopes that looking at Parkinsons from different angles may shed light on the development of the disease and offer insight concerning tre......hildren," Coyte adds. "Rather they are intended to inform physicians and parents who weigh the extra risks of surgery against the demonstrated benefits of adjuvant surgery. The question of which children benefit most from adjuvant adenoidectomy remains unresolved."...NIDA and partners announce national initiative on prescription drug misuse and abuse
...rugs in the United States. The initiative seeks to inform the public, physicians, pharmacists, and others about the misuse and abuse of medications and promote additional research on the subject."While prescription drugs can relieve a variety of medical problems and improve the lives of millions of American...Wake Forest professor to evaluate managed care patient protection laws
...e the initial experience under state lawsto better inform the national debate." Hall said the major questions to be answered in the study include: Have these laws increased patient satisfaction and improved the conditions for medical practice? Are there fewer complaints from members of managed cared ......about the implications of their family history. To inform better management in primary care, all primary care consultations between women (16 years and over) and doctors and nurses (clinicians) in 18 practices were counted over 4 week periods between August 1997 and July 1998. Mention of a family history of...Epilepsy conference to focus on new anti-seizure medications
...e FDA (Food and Drug Administration). "We want to inform everyone who has Epilepsy - as well as their families, friends, and the general public - that life can still be enjoyed and lived to its fullest," said Dr. Mullin, who recently joined the Cedars-Sinai Medical Staff after serving as co-director of UCL...Employers are primary source of health plan information
...rdized "report card" developed by the coalition to inform workers about employee-reported satisfaction and perceived care-system quality. Information about the care systems also is disseminated through company newsletters, e-mail, websites, kiosks, educational sessions, and visits from care-system represen...Conference to examine nutritional supplements, medicinal herbs for managing health problems
... to mainstream medicine, Gaylord said, but want to inform health providers about them. About 80 percent of the world's population still use herbal medicine as its chief source of medical treatment. Increasing numbers of U.S. residents take them as well. "The latest data show that about 40 percent of Americ...Expert calls for common sense, science in national response to medicinal herbs
...in character, designed to sell the product, not to inform accurately." New FDA regulations published this January liberalized claims that can be made for herbal products, but remained confusing and inconsistent, the scientist said. Ultimately, those regulations will not meet the public need for accurate in...Spouses of heart disease patients face high risks themselves
...ally," she says. "We need to think of new ways to inform and educate spouses, to give them a health risk appraisal and urge them to make lifestyle changes of their own and to seek treatment if necessary." Co-authors include Bernice C. Yates, Ph.D., R.N. and Susan Blancher, R.N., Ph.D....Yale and state researchers develop improved test for new tick disease
...le about Lyme Disease, and it may take sometime to inform people about Ehrlichia equi. With the ELISA we are set up fornext summer's tick season." Testing for ehrlichiosis is conducted by the Connecticut Department of PublicHealth and Yale's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health with financialsuppor...Institute publishes "Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment"
... While the JAMA article was written primarily to inform physicians about drugaddiction and the effectiveness of treatment, the Principles of Drug AddictionTreatment booklet is intended for health care professionals and the generalpublic. Among the principles and concepts spelled out in this guide, Dr. Le...