At Johns Hopkins: Emphasis on improved care and faster access to services shortens hospital stays
...de discharge planning, for more than a dozen nurse practitioners and physician assistants. This planning includes assistance and counseling for the family as they prepare for the patient's return home. According to Hopkins' chief of surgery, Julie Freischlag, M.D., "Heading home from the hospital after a trauma...Options for Parkinson's patients abundant
...es reliable, evidence-based strategies for general practitioners to effectively and confidently diagnose Parkinson's, and suggest ways patients and their caregivers can initially manage the disease. "These are things the general practitioner might not be as aware of," said Nutt, who co-authored the paper with G. F...July/August 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...onal survey of 1,523 family physicians and general practitioners in England and Wales, the United States, and the Netherlands, found family physicians place a high value on maintaining the patient-physician relationship through personal continuity. This was apparent even in strikingly different health care system...$1 million grant from John A. Hartford Foundation awarded to UCSF geriatric nursing center
...emand, and this means educating future leaders and practitioners in this field," she added. To achieve this goal, the new funding will support strategic initiatives in three target areas of the UCSF Center: --Master's and doctoral program expansion: Recruit more than 22 students each year for five years, maintai...MCG faculty contribute to textbooks on geriatric, pediatric hypertension
...xtbook on "Pediatric Hypertension," which provides practitioners an overview of this increasing health problem in children and practical management advice. Hypertension now follows obesity and asthma as the most common chronic diseases in children. "The prevalence of hypertension in children is going up tremendous...Do singlehanded general practices have a future?
... 1994 and 2004, the number of singlehanded general practitioners in England fell from 2,959 to 1,918 (from 11% to 6...harply with the United States, where 46% of family practitioners and 34% of general internists were practising alone in 1998. Ever since the foundation of the NHS, s...Panel calls for a new look at treatments commonly used for chronic insomnia
... than pharmacological interventions. There are few practitioners trained in these therapies, however. Alan Leshner...ncluded educators, researchers, statisticians, and practitioners in neuroscience, anesthesiology, sleep disorders, geriatric medicine, psychology, psychiatry, epidem...Study examines reasons for suboptimal outcomes following deep brain stimulation surgery
...erience, along with ongoing efforts to educate DBS practitioners regarding effective practices, will result in global improvement in the outcomes of DBS surgery."...Physiotherapist' advice may be as good as physical treatment for low back pain
...pecific pain when first-line management by general practitioners with medication, advice to stay active, and simple messages about self management has not been effective. Elaine Hay (Keele University, UK) and colleagues did a randomised trial to compare the clinical effectiveness of a brief pain management program...May/June 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...proach to care wherein physician assistants, nurse practitioners and health educations assume some of the time-consuming tasks of patient education and follow-up. Is There Time for Management of Patients with Chronic Diseases in Primary Care? By Truls Ostbye, M.D., Ph.D., et al PATIENTS WITH MORE THAN ONE ILLNE...Practice of defensive medicine widespread among physicians in specialties at high risk of lawsuits
...r consultation was very common (92 percent). Among practitioners of defensive medicine who detailed their most recent defensive act, 43 percent reported using imaging technology in clinically unnecessary circumstances. Avoidance of procedures and patients that were perceived to elevate the probability of litigatio...UCLA study tackles aging issues of adults with developmental disabilities
...g loss and pain were also widespread. "The nurse practitioners detected health problems that affected people's daily function yet had not been adequately addressed," noted Hahn. "The nurses sat down with each person and explained how to address these problems, such as adjusting one's diet for weight loss, start...Low back pain relief, causes, measurement & prosthetic fit, production, comfort
...els of below-knee amputations. Prosthetic-orthotic practitioners and students recorded typical measurements such as...istent with linear measurements, while experienced practitioners were more consistent with measuring circumference. This study provides evidence that improper measur...Clinical trial proves link between chiropractic and migraines
... post-treatment." Despite this study, some medical practitioners still dispute the ability of chiropractic care to ...shing group. "I think the vast majority of medical practitioners are now open to chiropractic, but there's a very small percentage who don't realise what development...Yoga takes a bite out of eating disorders
...rcise like jogging or using cardio machines. Yoga practitioners reported less self-objectification, greater satisfaction with physical appearance, and fewer disordered eating attitudes compared to non-yoga practitioners. In yoga class, a woman develops sensitivity to bodily sensations and practices listening to ...Some primary care residents feel unprepared to provide preventive counseling
...r prepared to discuss domestic violence and family practitioners more confident in addressing depression. Although the researchers had hypothesized that residents spending more time in ambulatory care settings would be more comfortable counseling patients, time spent in ambulatory settings actually made no differ...Girl juvenile offenders exhibit more problems, risks than boys
...ay help explain the rather widespread notion among practitioners who work with troubled youth that girls are harder to work with than boys. The reason is that girls often have more numerous and more serious problems to address." The problems that bring girls to the court system are often different than those of b...Health geography study finds health care resources distributed unevenly in Kansas
...ntial health care resources, specifically, medical practitioners and health care facilities. Residents of western ... For the project, she assessed the distribution of practitioners and facilities. Practitioners included primary care physicians, general physicians, full-time equiva...Politicians bury their heads in the sand while global flu threat mounts
...nt drugs, he argues, and GPs and other prescribing practitioners must prepare for the practicalities of dealing with an epidemic or pandemic of influenza. Avian flu is now a true threat to the world's population, Dr Higson concludes. Planning from world leaders to prevent it and deal with its consequences is now ......om the study can be a helpful tool for health care practitioners assessing ETS risk in children younger than 3 years of age, the period most pediatricians acknowledge that children are most vulnerable. In addition to asking "Do you smoke?" the study says following up with "Do others who live or frequently visit w...