Study finds that coordinating care of chronically ill patients does not increase liability
...lity because "coordinating care creates a broader responsibility for patients with complex conditions who have a greater chance of poor outcomes." "Based on the collective experience and judgment of experts in medical liability, however, there does not appear to be any basis for physicians who perform care coord...HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
...ake of public health, the federal government has a responsibility to provide comprehensive information about how to control sexually transmitted infections."...Failure to count Iraqi casualties is irresponsible, say experts
...erican governments contend that they have no legal responsibility to count civilian casualties. A Foreign Office spokesman told the BMJ: "We continue to feel that the Iraqi Ministry of Health figures are the best available in an uncertain situation, being based on an actual head count instead of extrapolation. In t...Three out of the four million newborn babies who die each year could be saved
... governments and assistance agencies to take joint responsibility to reduce the needless deaths of women and children. Particular attention needs to be given to the critical childbirth and early neonatal periods- when women and children in developing countries are most likely to die and a vital window of opportunit...Job satisfaction? Not much for Britain's hard slog 'robot' workers
...ld be accounted for by people having less personal responsibility and use of initiative in their work, combined with an increase in the effort required. "It was implausible to blame job insecurity, because over this period unemployment had fallen and other evidence suggested a falling sense of insecurity during the...Promising new strategy for Swedish medical research
...tructure means that we have the obligation and the responsibility to take part in these kinds of initiative," says Professor John Potter of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, USA....Physician roles at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
... of "dual loyalty," where they must choose between responsibility for individuals in need of care and demands placed upon them by the state or other governing entity. Dual loyalty can arise in the military, in prisons, in situations where care is provided to illegal immigrants, in forensic psychiatry, and in a vari...Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
...ctor must decide how to balance his or her primary responsibility to the patient with obligations to other persons in society. For their part, patients and families should be aware that different physicians, based on individual values and reasoning, may respond differently in similar situations, just as different...Public interest advocates question NIH Enhanced Access policy
...we can only state emphatically that NIH's foremost responsibility is to the taxpayer who paid for the research." AID...ose who need it." "If NIH is going to delegate its responsibility and rely on the good faith of the research community," Reinhard added, "then NIH should lead by exam...From town planning to intimate sex: Understanding the risks in our lives
...greater use of policies which emphasize individual responsibility and pro-activity in a range of areas from social welfare to education, and the regulation of the media to retirement. Projects in the network include: studies of sexual relations and intimacy; how ideas about risk are transmitted between parents ...Disaster funding needs radical reform
... more complex efforts should be seen as the common responsibility of states. The number of disasters, almost all meteorological in nature, is steadily rising year on year, from an average of 150 a year in 1980 to over 450 a year today. Although some of this increase may be due to better reporting, a substantial par...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...researchers found that a strong sense of physician responsibility to individual patients is less common among younge... also found that physicians with a strong sense of responsibility to individual patients were significantly more likely to report being satisfied with the quality of ...Study links racial and ethnic gap in youth violence to social factors
...d basic social norms about making money and taking responsibility for individual actions, young people are more likely to commit violent acts." According to the authors, these results imply that interventions to integrate and improve neighborhood well-being, such as housing vouchers to promote class integration, ma...PENN study emphasizes need for national guidelines for assisted reproductive technology programs
... ART programs believe that they have the right and responsibility to screen candidates before providing them with assisted reproductive technologies to conceive a child the key value being that they ensure a prospective child's safety and welfare and not risk the welfare of the prospective mother." The study also ...A proverb a day may make you healthier
... will be the great-grandparents. Maybe we have the responsibility to create new health proverbs based on clinical trials, rather than observations that haven't been verified." Choi collaborated on the paper with his wife, Anita Pak, and their teenage children, Jerome and Elaine. Together they worked at creating pro...NIH action plan charts future challenges for liver disease research
...dney Diseases (NIDDK), the NIH institute with lead responsibility for drafting the plan. "This trans-NIH plan summarizes challenges to advancing liver disease research and delineates the major goals for future research." Goals of the Action Plan for Liver Disease Research include: Improving the success rate of t...Treating individuals: How generalisable are trial data?
...ts as decision-makers in their own care. It is the responsibility of healthcare workers to communicate objective evidence in a manner which allows recipients to make an informed choice, and then to respect that choice. To empower consumers to make informed choices, the ability to interpret evidence and risk needs t...BMJ turns missing murder case documents over to FDA
...eport was done by Lilly or for Lilly, it was their responsibility to report it to us and to publish it." Congressman Maurice Hinchey (Democrat, New York), who is currently reviewing the documents to determine whether Lilly withheld data from the public and the FDA, said: "This case demonstrates the need for Congres...Nearsighted children may benefit from rigid contact lenses
...earchers find that young children could handle the responsibility of wearing contact lenses. Rigid contact lenses alter the shape of the cornea, which plays a small role in the development of myopia, said Jeffrey Walline, the study's lead author and an adjunct assistant professor of optometry at Ohio State Universi......ded science. They agree with us that NIH's primary responsibility is to serve science and to improve human health. We are proud partners with both to ensure that the conduct, scientific review and dissemination of research truly serve the public's interests. We firmly believe the compromise path that NIH has identi...