Johns Hopkins To Announce AIDS Capitated Care Program
... capitation, Hopkins will receive a preset fee per month from itsmanaged care partners to cover all medical care for patients in Moore Options.Hopkins will assume the financial risk for care that exceeds the amount perperson paid by the state Medicaid program. Moore Options is named for the Moore Clinic a...Are Deprived Areas A Greater Drain On Out Of Hours Workload?
...ours medical care is not fully explained. In a six month study published in this week's BMJ, Carlisle et al investigate the level of our of hours activity in six general practices and the sole accident and emergency department in Nottingham. The authors found that highly deprived areas close to the A&E d...Poor Heart Disease Patients Pay More For Medications, Get Less Preventative Care
...e prescribed medicine to control their disease.One month later, patients were interviewed about their medic...ents. They also paid on average more than $100 per month out-of-pocket formedication, versus $58 per month for people who made more than $20,000 per year.As ...Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
...of them had been taking the drug for less than one month when TTP developed. He said that the only proven way to lessen the chances of death forpersons with ticlopidine-associated TTP is for patients to undergoplasmapheresis, a procedure that is similar to filtering the blood, immediatelyafter the......ts who were developing chronic lung disease at one month of age,recently they have been used much earlier in an attempt to prevent chronic lung disease. The trial tested whether giving the drug to premature infants on aventilator at two weeks of age was more effective than waiting until four weeks...International Study Raises Hopes For Heart Transplant Patients
Preliminary six month findings of a Multicenter International Study of the organ rejection drug, Neoral, may offer significant benefits to heart transplant recipients. Clinical results obtained from 24 research centers in five countries were reported today at the Interna...Earliest Warning Sign Indicates Need To Test For Condition Associated With Fetal Deaths
...aths include those that occur in utero and up to a month after birth. Traditionally, at least three of several possible clinical indicators -- including maternal fever, elevated white cell count, uterine tenderness, foul-smelling discharge and increased fetal heartbeat -- were considered necessary to just...UCSF Hospitalists May Be Key To Shorter, Less Costly Hospital Stays
...nd rotate in thatrole infrequently, often just one month a year. "What you have with the hospitalist model is more direct supervision byindividuals who are more experienced in this attending role, more skilled in itand for whom this role is a larger part of their professional identity," saidRobert M. Wacht...New Study Designed To Improve Outcomes In Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer
... week after thetransplant and will continue once a month for up to two years. The treatment plan: ...one week after transplant Vaccine continues once a month for up to two years Criteria for women to participate in the study: No more than ...UCSF To Establish Formal Hospitalists Training Program
...otate inthat role infrequently, often just for one month each year. Patients' primarycare doctors traditionally managed their care in non-teaching hospitals.The emergence of hospitalists is based on the idea that inpatient carespecialists will be better skilled, more efficient and more available tohospital......etCareSM, show a 12.3 percent or $50per member per month reduction in direct health care costs, according t...ient hospital costs were reduced $47per member per month or $564 per year between baseline and follow-up for planmembers with diabetes. In addition,...Drug Reduces Heart Attack, Death Rates In Patients With Unstable Angina
...d reduce heart attack and death duringthe critical month following hospitalization for up to 35,000 Americans annuallywith a particular heart condition. Results of the study are published in theAug. 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Led by researchers at Duke University Medical Cente...Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
...forSocial Research who presented her findings this month at the annual meeting ofthe International Congress of Applied Psychology. As the population ages, the problem of forgetting to take the pills your doctorordered--the right number of the right kind at the right times--will affectmore and more people w...... Administration approval earlier this month of efavirenz as a treatment option for HIV-infected children. Study Chair Stuart Starr, M.D., of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, says, "Timely collaboration between PACTG ...Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
...ients who had experienced BMS for anywhere fromone month to 12 years. One subject was an 83-year-old male and the rest were females age 45 to 87(with a median age of 65). The patients began taking 0.25 mg of clonazepam at bedtime for one week and could increase thedaily dose by as much as 0.25 mg each week...Pursuing The Next Generation Of Arthritis Treatment
...gingresults, it will enter nationwide testing this month (November) with UCSFserving as the central and coordinating site, Wofsy said. Additional clinical trials for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis andosteoarthritis are expected to be launched in the first half of 1999 at theRosalind Russell New Arthri......hospital afterdelivery; and, Case 2: in the second month of life, for example at a clinicduring a child's first set of vaccines. The model is run to compare fouroptimization goals: (1) minimum total cost; (2) next lowest total cost; (3)maximum total cost; and (4) minimum total cost with all manufacturersr...New Chest Pain Evaluation Method Saves Lives, Prevents Costly HospitalizationFor Some Patients
...PU) into its everyday clinical practice within one month ofcompleting the study. The cost of chest pain is high -- in both human lives and expense. Approximatelyfive million people in the United States visit an emergency room with acutechest pain each year. The majority of these patients are usually admit......related study that was presented at a meeting this month of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Anaheim, Calif.,researchers compared Medicare payments, survival rates and quality-of-lifeissues for patients admitted to for-profit, nonprofit and public hospitals.Teaching hospital...... to take partin clinical trials. For example, this month the Public Health Laboratory Servicein Britain announced that trials of a new children's meningitis vaccine had beendelayed for up to a year because only half the 2000 volunteers needed had beenrecruited. In particular, they lacked recruits aged thre...