Controlling prescription drug expenditures: a case report of success
... preserving high quality medical care. An advisory outpatient prescription drug committee, which included physicians and pharmacists, was formed to review the literature and ensure that proposed strategies wouldnt have a negative impact on health care quality. According to co-author Curt D. Furberg, M.D., Ph...Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
...rge blood vessels or the ureter. RFA is an outpatient procedure in which the patient is sedated but conscious and a local anesthetic is used at the puncture site. In the study being reported, 101 of the 104 patients went home the same day, and three were hospitalized after the procedure one for a plann...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...r weeks, so what is needed is more training in the outpatient setting and in the community in addition to the hospital wards, to recognize and treat this infection early and before it spreads, Karakousis says. ...Diabetes professionals join forces to identify gaps in diabetes care and better self care
...elop a process for tracking it in the inpatient or outpatient setting. Time to see provider is limited; episodic versus comprehensive focus (acute versus chronic care) Use time in the waiting or examination room for education, incorporating audiovisual and creative techniques (such as computer-assisted e...CAM-oriented primary care providers result in cost savings, high patient satisfaction
...0 percent fewer hospitalizations, 62 percent fewer outpatient surgical cases, and85 percent lower pharmaceutical costs when compared with total network HMO utilization rates and costs. The chiropractors and other CAM doctors treated and managed cases ranging from upper respiratory tractinfections and allergies ...GSK announces launch of largest ever Phase III trial in lung cancer treatment
...intenance therapy delivered intra-muscularly on an outpatient basis. Phase III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Trial Launch: GSK is now recruiting for a Phase III trial evaluating MAGE-A3 ASCI as adjuvant therapy in MAGE-A3 positive patients with NSCLC. With a target of about 2,270 patients, the randomized, d...Survey shows asthma not controlled in majority of patients
....7 million physician office visits and 1.2 million outpatient visits. The REACT study found that the proportion of patients reporting two or more emergency department visits, hospitalization or three or more missed days of work/school because of asthma in the past year was more than three times greater in pa...Focused ultrasound relieves fibroid symptoms in women
...ually in the U.S. MRgFUS represents a noninvasive, outpatient alternative to hysterectomy. "This treatment is ideal for older women who have completed their families and have a single or limited number of fibroids," said co-author Clare M. Tempany, M.D., professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and ...Most pediatric chemotherapy mistakes reach patients
...ication error database of inpatient facilities and outpatient clinics to characterize the patterns of errors and.... Interestingly, compared to inpatient facilities, outpatient clinics were more likely to involve prescribing and dose calculation errors. Over 40 percent of erro...New device for stroke patients improves walking
...correct their gait. Offered on an inpatient and outpatient basis, the NESS L300 has been shown to improve walking coordination, speed and blood flow, and decrease the effort required in walking while wearing the device. Generally, electrical stimulation has been demonstrated to improve motor control; futu...Muscle stem cells effectively treat urinary incontinence long term
...d the stem cells from the tissue in culture. In an outpatient setting, the patients then received injections of the muscle-derived stem cells into the area surrounding the urethra. Each patient received an equal dose of stem cell injections using three different injection techniques a transurethral injection w...Asthmatx completes enrollment in pivotal study of bronchial thermoplasty
...o their baseline status, patients treated with the outpatient procedure demonstrated a: 50% decrease in asthma attacks, from 18/year to 9/year, 45% reduction in rescue medication use, from 20 puffs/week to 11 puffs/week of short-acting bronchodilators, 2.6 fold increase in days with no asthma symptoms,...Ottawa aggressive protocol for acute atrial fibrillation is successful
...essary, by ED staff and discharge from the ED with outpatient cardiology follow-up, may be a safe and effective treatment for AAF and AAFL. In results to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting, Dr. Ian Stiell of the Ottawa Health Research Institute will show tha...RAND study finds women with heart disease and diabetes less likely to receive proper care
...re less likely to receive several types of routine outpatient medical care than men who have similar health prob... to understand why there are gender differences in outpatient care. "As we become a nation with an older population, the type of routine preventive care we stu...Stenting of abdominal arteries offers welcome relief for 'intestinal angina'
...e and safe, and many times today can be done as an outpatient procedure." Chronic mesenteric ischemia can be tricky to diagnose. Patients may suffer nausea, vomiting, or pain after eatingsymptoms often mistaken for gallbladder disease or gastroenteritis. Eventually they may develop a fear of eating and lose l...Greenberg Prize awarded to Dr. Joseph G. Hayes
...to teach the house staff on both the inpatient and outpatient services. He has received numerous awards and honors, including several teaching awards: the J.J. Smith Award for excellence in teaching and scholarships (1996); and the Weill Cornell Medical College senior list of 15 most influential teachers by the...New, less painful wound treatment for pediatric patients
...uards against infection. It can even be worn on an outpatient basis, using smaller portable equipment. Further research is needed, however, to ensure that the therapy is used effectively. "Additional studies may help to harness the benefits of this technology in this unique and vulnerable population," says Dr...Monthly interpersonal psychotherapy prevents relapse of depression in many women
... 99 women whose depressive episodes remitted after outpatient treatment with IPT alone and 32 women who achieved remission with outpatient IPT and antidepressant treatment. The women were randomly assigned to receive maintenance IPT focuse...Doctors ill equipped to confront parent smoking
...vice provided in primary care, hospital wards, and outpatient clinics significantly increased the odds of quitting smoking by approximately 2.5 percent compared to no advice. While the analysis called this a a small effect on cessation rates, a 2.5 percent annual improvement in promoting parental smoking cessat......hildren without autism who had been referred to an outpatient clinic of the same hospital. They looked for two antibodies used to help detect celiac diseaseanti-gliadin antibodies and anti-endomysial antibodies. Biopsies of the small intestine were offered to children who tested positive for either antibody to ...