Impact of somatization on health resource usage in patients with irritable bowel syndrome
...ies that rarely result in relief or any additional diagnostic findings. "It is difficult to know why patients w...ition appropriately, rather than order a number of diagnostic tests as a reaction in the face of symptoms that are otherwise difficult to explain." Spiegel noted ...Fever of unknown origin: a marker for occult cancer?
...1.4 [1.2-1.6]). Prof Sorensen states "Heightened diagnostic effort could account for some of the association; however, after several years of follow-up, diagnostic bias should not be a major contributing factor to the number of cancers recorded". He continues, "Pa...'Secrets' of successful hospitals revealed
...rth a thousand words.' When medics and doctors see diagnostic ST segment elevation; they become focused on the problem and things happen quickly," Dr. Weaver said....New use of 64-slice CT scan to be studied at HUP to help diagnose coronary artery disease in the ED
...ping doctors to identify problems without invasive diagnostic procedures. The 64-slice CT scanner at HUP is the fastest available in the world at this point. HUP is gearing-up for a clinical study to see just how useful this technology in the ED would be making HUP one of only a very few emergency departments i...Palm Pilots could change how health care is delivered
...imes a day and correlate data with the most recent diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations and management options to make sound decisionsTraditionally these needs were addressed independently with separate devices, reference systems and networks. Personal digital assistants are capable of changing how health...Evidence of a new hereditary joint disorder
...procedures on the knees, hips, and shoulders for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Both daughters have had total hip replacement surgery. To the research team, this suggested a terribly destructive joint disease with a strong hereditary component. To gain a clearer sense of this syndrome's distinc...Sharper picture of major depression and alcohol disorders
...aged 18 years and older and questions that reflect diagnostic criteria established by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Its principal foci were alcohol dependence (alcoholism) and alcohol abuse and the psychiatric conditions that most freque...Emergency departments may often under-diagnose mental disorders in youth
...lves routine administration of rapid and efficient diagnostic instruments to all young people following deliberate self-inflicted harm. Improving mental health assessment of these young people provides an important opportunity for secondary prevention." (Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2005;62:1122-1128. Available pre-em......r the mother while still obtaining the appropriate diagnostic images," said Dr. Hosseinzadeh. In the past, it t...s almost in a hit and miss fashion to obtain the diagnostic images needed. This technique allows us to avoid taking unnecessary images, he said....Annual report to the nation finds cancer death rates still on the decline
... introduction or increased use of screening and/or diagnostic techniques. This year's report highlights patterns of care for cancer patients. The authors note that one strategy for reducing death and improving cancer survival is to ensure that evidence-based treatment services are available and accessible. I...Preventing communication errors in telephone medicine
...communication. "The many benefits include enhanced diagnostic accuracy and improved patient satisfaction," said Reisman who points out that poor communication has been associated with increased risk of malpractice lawsuits. Reisman's co-author on the study was Karen E. Brown, M.D., of Yale School of Medicine....Pulmonary artery catheter use neutral for patient outcomes
... Columbia University Medical Center. "The PAC is a diagnostic tool, like an x-ray or an electrocardiogram, and as such, we don't necessarily expect them to improve outcomes on their own. "Our analysis showed that PAC doesn't improve outcome as a part of a therapeutic strategy," she continued. "Maybe the cathete...Use of pulmonary artery catheterization does not show benefit for severe heart failure patients
...19 percent (83 patients) mortality at 6 months. No diagnostic test by itself will improve outcomes. New strategi...e past 60 years, the PAC has evolved from a simple diagnostic tool to a device that is used for monitoring and determining goal-directed therapy. Our meta-analysi...Biomedical engineer shows how people learn motor skills
... these findings can help researchers devise better diagnostic tools for people with neurological disorders and could lead to better neuro-prosthetic devices Thoroughman and Taylor then modeled this adaptation using a neural network. They found that, to mimic human behavior, the modeled neuronal tuning of moveme...Consensus panel calls for expanded role of needle biopsies, MRI and less invasive procedures
...iagnosing breast cancer with proven, less-invasive diagnostic methods, according to an international panel ofbreast cancer experts convened at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. In a consensus paper published in October's Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS), 23 ...UK government's privatisation plans for the NHS put patient welfare at risk
...eady been drafted in to run surgical clinics; some diagnostic services are now private; and new out-of-hours primary-care services are on their way. The intention behind these reforms is not necessarily bad but the Government's latest proposals are untested and, therefore, irresponsible and potentially dangerou...Fat rat enables studies of debilitating vascular disease
...gn therapies to intervene early and develop better diagnostic tools," Dr. Stepp says. So he looks at what happens to exercise capacity when the sympathetic nervous system is blocked or a nitrate patch is used to improve impaired dilation. "The holy grail of all this is if you can figure out how obesity impairs ...New study at UNC shows concussions promote dementias in retired professional football players
...ewicz said. "Also, there needs to be more rigorous diagnostic criteria, historical documentation of injuries and periodic evaluations such as neurophysiologic testing and functional neuroimaging to clarify the effects of concussion on lifetime risk of dementia or other neurologic disorders."...Older patients with acute coronary syndromes not getting recommended treatment
... Elderly patients were also less likely to undergo diagnostic catheterization procedures, angioplasty or coronary artery bypass surgery. Most medications prescribed at hospital discharge were similar across all age groups; however, elderly patients were less likely to receive clopidogrel (an anti-platelet drug ...Researchers call for better recognition and pain management of endometriosis
...siderable pain and problems with infertility. "The diagnostic process took an inordinate amount of time for most of the women in this study, which meant that they lived with chronic and mysterious pain for a considerable length of time" says Professor Huntington. "Diagnosis typically took between five and ten y...