Archive for the ‘Primary Care / General Practice’ Category
Monday, March 8th, 2010
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "The frustration of finding out what hospitals and doctors charge for common services -- from routine office visits to diagnostic tests and surgical procedures -- could soon get a lot easier in Wisconsin...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Kaiser Health News staff writer Andrew Villegas writes about developments regarding the physicians shortage is leading to a push for an expanded role for other health professionals. "There are no doctors in rural Tyrrell County, N.C. There is only Irene Cavall, a licensed nurse practitioner and the sole source of primary care for 4,000 residents spread out over 600 square miles (Villegas, 2/22)...
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Recruitment and retention of physicians in all specialties is a national challenge, and it is expected to become even more difficult due to an impending physician shortage. As relative newcomers to the long line of medical specialists, hospitalists pose special challenges...
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
AcademyHealth has recognized research that improves patient safety and surgical outcomes with the 2010 Health Services Research (HSR) Impact Award. The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was created as a tool to ensure adherence to basic safety standards of care...
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
The Newshour has a transcript of a feature report on Dr. Atul Gawande's new book, "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right," which "grew out of work he did for the World Health Organization, which asked him to help them find a way to reduce deaths in surgery...
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
The Department of Health is issuing a call for health and care professionals to support Local Involvement Networks (LINks), as it highlights the continued value that public involvement is playing in the provision of high quality care...
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
The Department of Health is issuing a call for health and care professionals to support Local Involvement Networks (LINks), as it highlights the continued value that public involvement is playing in the provision of high quality care...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
The Royal College of Nursing in Wales recently hosted a Primary Care event, entitled, "Shaping Primary and Community Health Services in Wales" at RCN Wales HQ in Cardiff...
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Guided Care, a new model of comprehensive health care for people with multiple chronic conditions, has received the 2009 Medical Economics Award for Innovation in Practice Improvement from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) and Medical Economics magazine...
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by the RAND Corporation...
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