Study finds that coordinating care of chronically ill patients does not increase liability
...ctors who coordinate the care of their patients by specialists may actually have lower liability risk than primar...tment plan encompassing the recommendations of all specialists "and resolving conflicts among specialists regarding medication, treatment or patient behaviors," he...Extreme exertion, emotion can spark repeat heart attacks
... He and coauthors recommend that, for now, cardiac specialists screen for psychosocial issues, recognize that some of these issues can be managed within cardiac practice and consider referring patients with severe psychological issues to appropriate specialists....Specialist care gives better rate of survival
A better network of care and access involving specialists and family physicians is needed to save the lives ...d ways to improve timely and appropriate access to specialists and to improve the structuring of collaborative care," said Dr. Paul Armstrong, professor of medicin...Balance and better interactions between primary-care and specialist physicians improve US health
...impact on health and that increasing the number of specialists would not improve the health status of the U.S. po...deaths. Currently, the United States has many more specialists than do other comparable countries with better health levels," said Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, lead...UCLA Medical Center becomes first hospital to introduce remote presence robots in ICU
...ased length of stay in the ICU and hospital. These specialists are familiar with complications that may occur and are therefore better able to minimize errors. UCLA will test the RP-6 robot as a way to extend the reach of the intensivist. The patient sees, hears and interacts with the doctor through the nearly 5...Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
...stent care for clinic patients, a core team of HIV specialists was eventually created to staff the clinic and tra...titutionalizes the ARV clinic's practice of having specialists train junior staff in HIV treatment, it could help to ensure an ongoing source of expert care provid...LA BioMed medical/research briefs March 2005
...s for the study began with two observations: liver specialists have seen a large increase of fatty liver disease, which has been linked to insulin resistance; PCOS has also been linked to insulin resistance. The study noted that PCOS is the most common form of non-ovulating infertility and females are at a highe...More training needed to care for growing geriatric population
...r adults are making more visits to nonprimary-care specialists and suggests faculty development and curriculum ch... "We know there's a shortage of trained geriatric specialists in the United States," says co-author Gregg Warshaw, MD, professor of geriatric medicine and family ...Latest findings on genetic blood disorder 'Cooley's Anemia'
...he Walt Disney Resort--will bring together leading specialists from around the world to consider the kinds of dramatic improvements in diagnosis, prevention of complications and treatment since the last major symposium on the disease, in 1997 (also sponsored by the Academy and Foundation). Organizers of the co...Study: Young adults can be motivated to eat fruits, veggies
...eam included researchers and cooperative extension specialists from Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. The two-year study was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service....Cardiology losing out as women 'turned off' by family unfriendly specialty
Heart specialists increasingly fear that the lack of women in cardiology, despite growing numbers of female medical students, will bring down standards of practice and research in the specialty, reveals a British Cardiac Society report. Published in the journal Heart,...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...o share knowledge with surgeons and cardiovascular specialists from around the country about the latest techniques and treatments. "We are proud to support Drs. McCarthy and Bonow and their team in the development of a nationally-renowned heart program for Chicago," says Dean M. Harrison, president and chie...Penn joins major NCI research initiative to advance breast cancer therapies
... performed by small groups of departmentally based specialists working in relative isolation. In contrast, the MMHCC is based on the premise that more rapid progress can be made towards curing cancer by bringing together scientists from multiple, disparate academic disciplines to work synergistically in an inter...New math model of heart cell has novel calcium pathway
...ns ( Nature 1999;400:566). Until recently, heart specialists have not had noninvasive tools like MRI and CT, to better understand the heart's electrical function. In work supported by a Merit Award from the NIH, Rudy has pioneered a novel, noninvasive imaging modality for cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythm...Gender bias in child growth evaluations may miss disease in girls
...wice as many boys as girls are referred to medical specialists for evaluation of short stature or poor growth, according to a new study. The imbalance may reflect society's gender biases about stature, and may have serious health consequences: girls whose growth failure is caused by an underlying disease may be...Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
... and assessment of child development. Agencies and specialists involved included police, court workers, psycholog...uld threaten professionals' sense of themselves as specialists when teams worked towards 'blurring' responsibilities to create generalist workers. On the other han...Guidelines restricting endoscopy referrals put patients at risk
...ugs or other measures. But senior gastrointestinal specialists say that if patients are only referred once alarm symptoms are present, cancer may already be at an advanced stage - and too late for surgery. Professor Michael Griffin, head of the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Great Britain and ...Minorities who experience pain don't receive the same care as Caucasians
...e Equal?" and highlights the suggestion that "pain specialists provide better care and give faster attention to more profitable patients." Lebovits notes how even in end-of-life care situations, services are more available to those who fit the white, upper-class mold. Gallagher, Green and Tait present this issu...Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...ople, ranging from endocrinologists, dieticians to specialists to conduct analyses with a mass spectrometer. The periodic $1,000/person glass of water. This was a special metabolic test that required drinking treated water with tracers to monitor the person's metabolism as a way of providing researchers a measu...Annual mammogram, doctor visits are enough for breast cancer follow-up
...review found that follow-up care by hospital-based specialists was not significantly different from that offered by general practitioners in terms of improvements in the patient's quality of life or speed in detecting new cancers. However, patients were more likely to be satisfied with care by their general prac...