Study shows media coverage on flu influences parents to vaccinate their children
...olmenares, senior information officer. Researchers surveyed the parents of 256 children ages 6 months to 59 months (almost 5 years old) who brought their children to VUMC and an affiliated clinic during the summer of 2004. They were asked if and when their child received a flu vaccine and what influenced the...Children with asthma more likely to have behavior difficulties
... clinical settings. Parents of 1,619 children were surveyed about their children's asthma symptoms and several different behaviors (EG: makes friends easily, fights with other children, concentrates well, is withdrawn). Because the children in the study had not yet begun their formal schooling, and since beh...More training needed to ensure accuracy of urine drug tests
...ol and Children's Hospital Boston, and colleagues, surveyed primary care physicians about their knowledge of u...eeds can cause a positive drug test results.) The surveyed physicians were also unsure of whether second-hand exposure to marijuana smoke would cause a positiv...Does alcohol labelling encourage sensible drinking?
...uenced drinking awareness. Although most of those surveyed could define what constitutes a unit of alcohol, l...no suggestion at all. Nearly half of the shoppers surveyed preferred wine, but a fifth of those gave no estimate on how many units are in a bottle. Another th...Medical debt draining Kansans' resources, threatening health care access
...th centers in Kansas on the study. The researchers surveyed clients at the health centers located in Wichita, Garden City and Emporia -- gathering responses from over 1,000 participants. The survey examined respondents' medical debt from all sources, including hospitals, doctors, dentists, prescription medi...Teens' healthy food choices foiled by early lunch, soft drink machine income and parents who cater
...e almost $700 per day per school among the schools surveyed and $450 of that income comes from the sale of a la carte items that have few federal requirements compared to the school meals. Income from soft drink incentives also appears to play a role in the nutrition environment, the study found. The exist...When we say the wrong thing...repairing the message
...t affect the choice of response? The researchers surveyed 204 undergraduates between the ages of 18 and 54 at a Midwestern university, asking them to recall a regretted conversation and write down what happened. The participants rated the seriousness of the offense and characterized their relationship with...New survey indicates preemie parents uninformed about RSV prevention
...ect a family's daily life. Seven out of 10 parents surveyed spent more time at home in the months following their baby's birth, and more than half socialized with friends less often. More than a quarter quit work, possibly putting a strain on the family's finances. Families face emotional strain, too; and th...Even with more free time, women feel no less rushed, study finds
...98 data included a national sample of 1,151 people surveyed by the Survey Research Center at the University of Maryland. In both surveys, respondents filled out a diary that showed how they spent a specific 24-hour period. Free time was measured as time not spent at paid work, household chores, child care, o...Low-cost drug gaining favor for use in HIV-infected children in poor countries
...infected children in poor countries. The reviewers surveyed medical literature on the preventive use of Bactrim -- one of several brand names for the generic medicine cotrimoxazole -- for children to ward off common infections that can be deadly to a person whose immune system is weakened by HIV. Dr. Kate Gr...Aspirin therapy may be safe for some survivors of brain hemorrhage
...g the period from 1994 to 2004. The patients were surveyed by telephone every six months and asked about any recurrence of hemorrhage or other neurologic disorders and whether they took aspirin or other antiplatelet therapies. While 18 percent of the study participants had recurrent hemorrhages during an av...Patients want as much info as their GP in post-consultation letters
Over half of surveyed patients want to see the letters sent to their general practitioner following hospital consultations. A study published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine shows that patients would prefer to receive the same information as their general pr...Robust monitoring is crucial to patient choice
...fferent providers of cataract surgery, the authors surveyed the leaders of patient choice for each primary care trust in England asking how they monitored the quality of care from their providers. Of 125 respondents, more than half relied on non-specific and service level agreements or patient feedback to mon...Genes' influence on common drugs may affect health-care quality, cost
...used." The study found that of the 607 outpatients surveyed at three primary-care sites in the metropolitan St...ber and severity of adverse reactions to the drugs surveyed was not measured in this study; however, a 1998 study ranked adverse drug reactions as among the top...Risky sex in Miami, racial influence on children's care in latest Journal of Urban Health
... to complete a questionnaire. One-third of the men surveyed reported using one or more "club drugs" in the pas...even death if not properly controlled. Researchers surveyed 457 African American adults with Type 2 diabetes (predominantly low-income women) via telephone to d...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Jan. 3, 2006
...Care, p. 29). Ninety-one percent of the internists surveyed were still working in internal medicine, with the proportion lower among generalist physicians (79 percent) than subspecialists (96 percent). In an accompanying editorial, the Annals editor considers the issue of the physicians who left the practice...Internal medicine organizations survey internists on maintenance of certification
...patient care." While 91 percent of the internists surveyed were still working in internal medicine or its subspecialties, the proportion was lower among generalists (79 percent) than subspecialists (96 percent). The survey did not ask why these doctors left internal medicine. "We will try to determine this i...Patients and researchers differ on perception of remission from depression
...Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS) project surveyed 535 psychiatric outpatients at Rhode Island Hospital who were being treated for major depressive disorder. The patients were asked to rate 16 potentially relevant factors that would indicate they were in remission from depression. Then, they were ask...Employers missing out on best financial benefits of preventive care
...n concludes. More than 90 percent of the employers surveyed for the report say that the potential savings offered by preventive care programs, through lower health care costs and less absenteeism, are important to them, according to Jeffrey Harris, M.D., of the University of Washington School of Public Health...Free care by Florida emergency physicians climbs faster as uninsured patient visits increase
...of Health Care Management Review. The researchers surveyed 188 Florida hospital emergency physician groups about the uncompensated care they provided in 1998. The 83 physician groups responding provided substantial uncompensated, or free, emergency care, ranging from 26 to 79 percent with an average of nearl...