Emergency department guidelines enhance quality patient care
...evidence-based guidelines and forms for nurses and physicians to use for every aspect of the patients pathway th...practice and how we could improve. Our emergency physicians work in three emergency departments in Cincinnatiat University, Christ and Jewish hospitalswhich mak...Personal comments by physicians distract from patient needs
...tentioned efforts to establish relationships, some physicians tell patients about their own family members, heal...st-time patient visits to experienced primary care physicians has found these personal disclosures have no demonstrable benefits and may even disrupt the flow of ...AstraZeneca announces SYMBICORT is now available in the US
...w, effective treatments, and provides patients and physicians with a new treatment option to improve and maintain lung health. SYMBICORT was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on July 21, 2006. The SYMBICORT submission was based on 27 Phase I, II, and III trials designed to assess the eff...Damon Runyon renews its $2.25 million investment to support young clinical cancer investigators
...intended to help address the worrisome shortage of physicians capable of translating scientific discovery into new breakthroughs for cancer patients. In partnerships with founding sponsor Eli Lilly and Company, and with Siemens Medical Solutions, Novartis and Genentech, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundat...Extended duration work shifts risky to the safety, well-being of medical interns, patients
...and Women's Hospital in Boston, was based on 2,737 physicians in their first post-graduate year, who participated in a nationwide Web-based survey, completing a total of 17,003 monthly reports. A regression analysis was performed to determine the relationship between the number of extended duration work shifts...ACP supports improved access to information on relative strengths and weaknesses
...tes. ACP members include 123,000 internal medicine physicians (internists), related subspecialists, and medical students. Internists specialize in the prevention, detection and treatment of illness in adults....Physician-researchers often less successful in obtaining NIH funding
...linical research. The percentage is much lower for physicians who also have a Ph.D. (43 percent) and for investigators with a Ph.D. only (39 percent). The annual percentage of applications by individuals with an M.D. who are funded for their first R01 grant is on average lower for those who conduct clinical res...Split the difference: Pill-splitting study looks at cost-saving step that could be used by millions
...try to save money. But others do it with help from physicians who write prescriptions for a higher dose and inst...spectively. The patients were all being treated by physicians at a single UMHS health center. They were also better educated and more likely to be white and femal...CAM-oriented primary care providers result in cost savings, high patient satisfaction
...cally-oriented physicianswho serve as primary care physicians (PCPs) have lower utilization costs and higher patient satisfactionlevels than patients treated by conventional medical doctors, according to a study published in the Mayissue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics that tracked...Researchers develop criteria to detect bone mass deficiencies in children with chronic diseases
...r. Kalkwarf said. The research findings will allow physicians to use standardized data on bone mass categorized by sex, age, and race and formatted similar to a growth chart as a screening tool to identify children with potential underlying problems in skeletal development. In collecting their data, researc...Rochester spreads knowledge of cancer-related fatigue
...10, researchers said. However, it is important for physicians to distinguish cancer fatigue from other ailments such as depression, and treat accordingly. -- Fatigue and cancer-related sleep disorders. Approximately 25 to 50 percent of all prescriptions that doctors write for cancer patients are for hypnotics....High-Need Physician Workforce Incentives Act endorsed by American College of Physicians
...enacting legislation to reverse a rapid decline of physicians going into primary care and other generalist field...fforts to provide scholarships and debt relief for physicians who choose primary care and agree to practice in critical shortage areas. The first proposal of th...Dartmouth's alternative breast imaging techniques sort abnormal from normal tissue
HANOVER, NH Dartmouth physicians and engineers have published a paper with results from a five-year project testing three new imaging techniques to examine breast abnormalities, including cancer. The study finds that the new methods of electromagnetic imaging offer a high contrast a...Research shows survival benefit for leukemia patients treated with arsenic trioxide
...he willingness of patients with leukemia and their physicians to participate in the clinical trial has markedly improved the outcome for participants and future patients with APL. Study participants underwent extensive follow-up (32 months on average), including weekly blood tests and regular bone marrow test...Institute of Medicine Advisory: Public health physicians
...ne, looks at steps that should be taken to attract physicians to such jobs and to fully prepare them to make positive differences on the ground. The report will be released at a one-hour public briefing beginning at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 6, in the Lecture Room of the National Academies building, 2100 C ...Do financial incentives for physicians improve quality of care for patients?
...d by patients. In the United Kingdom, primary care physicians receive financial rewards in return for providing ... that introduction of this financial incentive for physicians improved the support for smoking cessation and was associated with a reduction in smoking prevalence...Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of death in older people with dementia
... be associated with an increased risk of death, so physicians need to carefully weigh potential risks and benefi...y encourages discussion between patients and their physicians and between caregivers and physicians about the appropriate time to use these drugs. Dr. Gill and...Medicalizing the human condition
...lization. In the past few decades the impact of physicians on medicalization has diminished, contends Conrad. Instead, the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries, insurance companies and HMOs, and the patient as a consumer have become the major forces promoting medicalization, helped along by development...May/June Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ween adult patients with type 2 diabetes and their physicians finds the concept of clinical inertia does not ade...ompeting demands (patient concerns) that can cause physicians not to act. As the number of patient concerns increased, the likelihood of a change in medication d...Even when child's cancer prognosis is poor, parent/physician communication can provide hope
... at 7:30 a.m. CDT. Previous studies suggest that physicians are reluctant to give prognostic information, out of fear that it will destroy hope, said Jennifer Mack, MD, the studys lead author. Strikingly, we found that honest communication of prognostic information can actually help parents to feel more hopef...