How can doctors best communicate health risks?
...nsultant in risk communication, offers some simple rules that can help doctors communicate risks clearly....Prescription drug utilization reviews are less than useful
...ate Medicaid programs and, using the same computer rules that the states use, found no evidence to suggest ... use an alternative drug that does not violate the rules but is nonetheless harmful, or if they abruptly discontinue drugs that should be tapered slowly, whi...Government regulations contribute to medical debt of uninsured and underinsured
...se of unclear federal laws and regulations. These rules may encourage health care providers to bill the un...service. Federal fraud and abuse laws and Medicare rules designed to prevent overbilling may have the unintended effect of discouraging health care providers...Few lessons are learnt from NHS inquiries
...ften in response to public pressure - there are no rules or guidelines on how to run an inquiry, and few arrangements exist to carry learning about the inquiry process over from one inquiry to another. Inquiry reports are often long, and many produce similar findings despite addressing failures in the qual...Atorvastatin shown to decrease heart disease and stroke (more follows)
.... As the size of the benefit exceeded the stopping rules for this part of the trial, the Data Safety Monitoring Board's recommendations to close this section of the study were accepted by the ASCOT Steering Committee. This part of the study was formally closed on 1 October 2002 but data collection relating...Child abuse found to be global problem, WHO review reveals
.... "Despite all the differences in cultures and the rules about how we raise children, rates of abuse around the world are remarkably similar in some ways," Runyan said. "Close to 40 percent of the children being beaten by their parents in places as far away as Romania, Hong Kong and Korea. And the risk fac...Researchers devise ways to reduce noise, improve sleep in nursing homes
...researchers' immediate focus is on creating design rules for retrofitting existing nursing homes and designing new ones to mitigate noise....Making individual health insurance market work
...ors Vip Patel and Mark Pauly. Ensuring fair market rules for the individual market are important for a sizable share of the population, since it is the main source of insurance coverage for nonpoor working families whose employers don't offer insurance. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ...Study finds Medicare overbilling may be caused by government's faulty reimbursement
...mplying with Medicare's more than 100,000 pages of rules and supporting documents." Nearly 9,000 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are used in the medical field to code medical procedures for Medicare claims. The codes describe the extent of a physician's interaction with a patient, such as obtain...Misclassification of cause of death in cancer patients
...hey write. The authors propose developing some rules under which all deaths within 1 month of surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy are attributed to the cancer for which the treatments were initiated. In an accompanying editorial, Colin B. Begg, Ph.D., and Deborah Schrag, M.D., of the Memorial ...Buszaki neuroscience research published in current journals 'Science' & 'Nature'
...rties of single neurons rather than by complicated rules within neuronal networks as previously suggested." June 14 Science article: Wiring the Newborn Brain To get a better understanding of how an immature brain network develops over time, Buzsaki's research appearing in the journal Science, "Correlated ...Mentally fatigued persons switch to automatic pilot
...rthermore, it took them longer to realise that the rules of the game had been surreptitiously changed. A fourth test investigated whether trial subjects had control over their actions. Fatigued persons were just as good as their fit colleagues at substituting a standard action with an alternative. However,...Outpatient treatment is as effective as inpatient treatment for PID
...sease. "Until now, doctors have used idiosyncratic rules to determine which patients need to be hospitalized for PID. These data are the first to help doctors make that determination more rationally," said the study's principal investigator, Roberta Ness, M.D., M.P.H., director, Epidemiology of Women's Hea...ACP-ASIM releases plan to eliminate uninsured by 2009
...d also be required to agree to uniform new federal rules on risk rating and renewability. Coverage would be available to individuals through purchasing group arrangements. These groups would allow individuals access to the steeply discounted rates that insurers currently only offer through large or mid-siz...Breast cancer under threat from the new ethics say top cancer specialists
...al research we must be prepared to challenge those rules and regulations that are gradually and insidiously undermining our ability to carry it out." Dr Martine Piccart, head of the chemotherapy department at the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels, told the briefing of her concern for the future of clinical...Decision rules and physician judgment
Decision-making rules such as Ottawa ankle rules have been widely adopted because of their potential for safely reducing a patients exposure to costl...New safety regulations reduced injuries requiring treatment for children, study suggests
... child health. Common sense told us that these rules would make a very real difference, said Peggy Ball...hem reality. Now, we have real data that shows the rules are dramatically improving the lives of North Carolina children in childcare. Kotch, the princip......education of clinicians and changes in eligibility rules and health insurance coverage policies are needed to provide a system geared to the care for people with chronic health problems. "Our health care system is oriented towards treating people with acute episodes, and not people with recurring problems ......roaches to statistical training. Percentage-based rules would state, for example (using hypothetical numbe... she will test positive is 80%. Natural-frequency rules would state, using the same example, Eight of every 10 women with breast cancer who undergo mammogra...Science, engineering and technology news tips -- August 2001
...ilt a mathematical model of prion growth. They set rules for how a few infectious prions convert normal PrP proteins around them. As more proteins are altered and can affect their neighbors, the damage spreads at an increasing rate. The change in protein folding takes less than a billionth of a second, bu...