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Managed Care
October 2004 |
Quality at Accredited Health Plans Takes Big Step Forward The quality of care delivered by health plans that report performance data to the National Committee for Quality Assurance improved markedly in 2003.   |
AskMen.com
Harold Russell |
Depression & Fatigue A recent study of adults showed fatigue and lethargy to be the most common and debilitating symptoms of depression. This finding could change the way that physicians treat this illness. |
Managed Care
November 2005 |
Quality Improves at Nation's Health Plans The National Committee for Quality Assurance's annual report states the quality of health plans that report have improved quality, but there is also a rise of consumer-directed health plans which do not report on quality. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
January 1, 2006
Michael Fronstin |
A Fresh Look at Co-morbidity You may think you understand a disease. But then it arrives in tandem. A new survey takes a fresh look at co-morbidity. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
FDA Allows Expansion of St. Jude Study to Treat Severe Depression St. Jude moves forward with treatment for depression. |
Managed Care
December 2002
Margaret E. O'Kane |
Taking the Lead for Accountability Critics complain that some HMOs withhold data, but NCQA President Margaret O'Kane responds that HMOs are exemplary in measuring and reporting quality. |
ifeminists
May 5, 2004
Tony Zizza |
Depression Screenings Don't Belong In Our Schools A recent article in the Denver Post reports Denver Health's School-Based Health Centers are screening every student - for depression - who steps inside any one of the 11 school-based "clinics." |
AskMen.com
January 6, 2001
Joshua Levine |
Dealing With Depression Clinical depression is an illness characterized by a cluster of feelings, thoughts and behaviors that are strikingly different from a person's normal range of feeling and functioning... |
Reason
December 2007
Will Wilkinson |
The Great Depression Is an epidemic of depressive disorder really sweeping America? Book review: The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder, by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2002
Sharp & Lipsky |
Screening for Depression Across the Lifespan: A Review of Measures for Use in Primary Care Settings Depression is a common psychiatric disorder in children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Primary care physicians, not mental health professionals, treat the majority of patients with symptoms of depression. |
Managed Care
February 2007 |
Headlines On Deadline ... Deaths from cancer fell for the second straight year... Giving physicians free electronic prescribing software has been suggested to prevent medication errors... simple patient education intervention encouraged patients to use medications more consistently and continuously... |
Nurse Practitioner
March 2012
Vanya Hamrin et al. |
Evaluation and Management of Pediatric and Adolescent Depression The primary care setting is an appropriate venue for screening and identifying pediatric depression. Nurse practitioners can provide initial management or referral to psychiatric mental health professionals for evidence-based treatments. |
American Family Physician
January 1, 2007
Shashi & Subhash Bhatia |
Childhood and Adolescent Depression Safe and effective treatment of major depression in this age group requires accurate diagnosis, suicide risk assessment, and use of evidence-based therapies. |
BusinessWeek
May 6, 2010 |
Investors Flee as Greece Erupts in Protests The three deaths in the Athens demonstrations marked an ugly turn in the battle over Europe's financial future. |
Managed Care
March 2008 |
Proposed 2009 HEDIS Measures Address Immunization, Obesity Rates The National Committee for Quality Assurance wants to expand what the committee's Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures look at in 2009. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2002 |
Depression in Women Is depression common in women?... What are the symptoms?... What causes depression?... Symptoms of Depresssion... How is depression treated?... Are antidepressants safe for any woman with depression?... etc. |
Managed Care
April 2006
Tony Berberabe |
Insurers Rely on Providers To Screen for Depression With access only to claims data, health plans strive to promote the importance of depression screening to their providers. |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Matthew E. Dawson |
Not myself I took this photo at a particularly low point of depression. I've gained a lot of weight since taking a certain medication and I'm fascinated by what's happening to me. |
U.S. CPSC
May 20, 2004 |
Portable Generator Death Reports Double Reports of generator-related carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning deaths doubled in recent years. |
Managed Care
August 2006
Cross & Sipkoff |
Although Employers Need Depression Programs, They May Not Know It Yet Research says the hidden cost of untreated depression far outweighs the cost of treatment. Plans need to get this information to purchasers. |
