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September 2011
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What does EMTALA mean for you? When a patient enters your hospital, do you know what your obligations are under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act?   |
Salon.com
March 27, 2000
Jeff Drayer |
The hardest question Even after doing it hundreds of times, it's never easy to ask someone whether they want you to let them die. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals. |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2002
Schwetschenau & Kelley |
The Adult Neck Mass Family physicians frequently encounter neck masses in adult patients. A careful medical history should be obtained, and a thorough physical examination should be performed. |
Salon.com
October 21, 1999
Scott Harris |
Waiting room For the great numbers of uninsured, the care may not be bad -- but the wait is. |
American Family Physician
April 15, 2001 |
Strep Throat What is strep throat? What are the signs of strep throat? How is strep throat treated?... |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 29, 2015
Dina Gerdeman |
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records John Quelch discusses approaches to integrate patient data so that medical professionals and patients can make better decisions. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Chuck Salter |
The Doctor of the Future Cost, access, quality -- the prognosis for American health care may look grim, but innovation is the cure. The medicine of tomorrow is being born today. |
Managed Care
August 2001 |
Four Views of Managed Care Ethics The evolution of managed care has posed ethical problems for physicians, plan administrators, and even patients. Four ethicists find that questions are many, while satisfactory answers are in short supply... |
Pharmaceutical Executive
August 1, 2005
Lena Chow |
Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market. |
Fast Company
Elizabeth Segran |
Doctor Visits Are So 2014 For scrappy startups, going up against the health care system sometimes seems like an impossible task. But fortunately, major players in the industry, such as McKesson, are pushing for change as well |
Salon.com
December 1, 1999
James B. Stewart |
Who's watching the docs? The code of silence in hospitals allows deadly mistakes to happen, but some simple reforms could help... |
CRM
August 1, 2009
Lauren McKay |
Healing the Sick Facing regulatory requirements, spiraling costs, and an aging (and ailing) customer base, the healthcare industry looks to CRM to balance a pair of age-old doctrines: First, do no harm - and physician, heal thyself. |
AskMen.com
April 15, 2001
Joshua Levine |
Choosing The Right Doctor Choosing a doctor is one of the most important decisions you can make. It's probably best made when you are healthy and have some time to think about a number of possibilities. If you don't have a doctor or are thinking about changing doctors, now may be the best time to look... |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2012
Farhad Manjoo |
Big Changes Are Ahead For The Healthcare Industry, Courtesy Of Big Data The importance of Big Data transcends its big hype. There are so many blue-sky proclamations for what's become known as Big Data that you need a data scientist to track them all. |
American Journal of Nursing
September 2011
Schmid et al. |
Care of the Suicidal Pediatric Patient in the ED: A Case Study At Childrens Hospital Boston, an algorithm-the Risk of Suicidality Clinical Practice Algorithm has been developed to ensure evidence-based care supported by best practice guidelines. |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2004
Miriam T. Vincent |
Pharyngitis While most patients with sore throat have an infectious cause (pharyngitis), fewer than 20 percent have a clear indication for antibiotic therapy. Useful, well-validated clinical decision rules are available to help family physicians care for patients who present with pharyngitis. |
Managed Care
April 2000
Mark Abernathy |
Avoid Common Problems In Risk-Sharing Contracts These arrangements too often become a hindrance instead of a help. Simple precautions today can help prevent major headaches later on. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2006 |
Sore Throat What causes a sore throat?... What is tonsillitis?... Symptoms of tonsillitis or strep throat... Do I need surgery for tonsillitis?... etc. |
BusinessWeek
January 7, 2010
Catherine Arnst |
Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs - and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists. |
Nursing Management
May 2010
Urbanowicz & Taylor |
Hybrid OR: Is it in your future? Having the availability of a hybrid suite creates new opportunities to combine endovascular and open surgery into one operative episode. |
Salon.com
September 26, 2002
Carina Chocano |
Same old mish-"M*A*S*H"! Stat! On "MDs" and "Presidio Med," rogue, renegade and maverick doctors search for a cure for HMOs. |
AskMen.com
March 17, 2001
Joshua Levine |
The Importance Of Regular Check-Ups For Men Men are much less likely than women to seek the routine medical care that they should. This article describes some of the risks. |
Seasoned Cooking
November 2004
Michael Fick |
Take Charge of Your Health Care The U.S. health care system is the best in the world, but is heavily burdened. The only way to insure you are getting the best care is to get involved. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2009
Michelle Conlin |
The Return of the House Call Companies eager to cut health-care costs may do well to consider the home doctor visits Microsoft offers. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Hunting For Hospitals That Measure Up New Web sites can help you become an educated health-care consumer |
AskMen.com
Tara Weiss |
Reasons Not To Become A Doctor There were once many rewards to being in the medical profession. For decades, doctors earned hefty paychecks, had autonomy and respect. Those benefits are fading, and as a result, so is the number of doctors. |
Nursing Management
May 2011
Kirsten Drake |
SCIP core measures: Deep impact In August 2005, the SIP project grew to become a multiyear, national quality partnership of organizations called the Surgical Care Improvement Project, or SCIP, with the goal of decreasing surgical complication by 25% by 2010. |
American Journal of Nursing
June 2009
Prahlow et al. |
Case Study: Asphyxia Caused by Inspissated Oral and Nasopharyngeal Secretions This case serves to remind clinicians that a failure to provide good oral care and adequate hydration is not only poor practice but can result in death. |
Salon.com
June 19, 2000
Lisa Ochs |
In the shadow of a glass mountain One nurse observes how the fear of lawsuits causes healthcare professionals to neglect patients. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
How To Check A Doctor's Credentials Here's a five-step plan to finding a good doctor. |
The Motley Fool
August 28, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Your Doctor Is Killing You ... Financially What the doctor does has a big effect on how much health care costs. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
January 1, 2013
Al Topin |
The Doctor-Patient Disconnect Doctor-patient conversations aren't always what we think; this basic interaction represents both a problem and an opportunity for today's drug marketers, says the author. |
Managed Care
April 2000
Tim Olsen |
Physician, Tarnish Not Thine Image Doctors who use the news media to criticize others, rather than initiate a constructive dialog about difficult issues such as antibiotic resistance, help erode the profession's influence. |
BusinessWeek
September 9, 2010
Caroline Winter |
A High-End Handler for Deep-Pocketed Patients A startup links the seriously ill with global experts on their malady |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
Lorraine Woellert |
How Much Is That Brain Scan? If turning Americans into price-conscious health-care shoppers is ever going to work, it will require wholesale changes in many of the industry's most basic business practices. |
Seasoned Cooking
April 2005
Michael Fick |
H&F Potpourri; the Shotgun Approach Do Prilosec and Prevacid disrupt digestion?... Do home Alzheimer's Disease tests really help?... Opiates and the terminally ill... Redheads need much more anesthesia before surgery... Cuts, scrapes and antibiotics... Cold or flu?, then what to do... Reducing hay fever symptoms... etc. |
Salon.com
May 2, 2002
Fran Smith |
Bush's band-aid approach A prestigious, congressionally mandated report has found that minority Americans receive glaringly inferior medical care. The Bush response: Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day... |
Nursing Management
March 2010
Becker & Schmidtke |
All along the watchtower: Suicide risk screening, a pilot study Patients will continue to die if healthcare organizations don't take action and appropriately assess patients at risk for suicide in general hospitals. |
Nursing
April 2011
Sally Austin |
Stay Out of Court with Proper Documentation Here is a practical guideline to help you document your assessments and interventions completely, accurately, and concisely. Doing so not only improves patient care, but also shields you from legal fallout if something goes wrong. |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2010
Tara Breton |
What's in the Patient's Medical Bill? If you want more understanding of medical billing, here are the basics of the U.S. medical reimbursement system that will hopefully assist you along with web resources on this subject. |
Nursing
June 2011
Cahill & Armstrong |
Caring for an adult with a malignant primary brain tumor Pprimary brain tumors are relatively uncommon, occurring in an estimated 63,000 patients in the united states each year. |
BusinessWeek
June 23, 2011
Drew Armstrong |
The Simplest Rx: Check on Your Patient Doctors and insurers cut costs by sharing information. |
Job Journal
November 2, 2008
Julia Hollister |
Hospital Jobs The hospital is one workplace where the decisions really are life and death. |
Science News
March 28, 2009 |
Science Past For March 28, 1959 Thoughts on patient resocialization in a mental hospital during the 1950s. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
June 1, 2014
Ben Comer |
Take as Directed: From Force to Finesse in Promoting Adherence Healthcare players tout patient education and engagement as the keys to better drug adherence rates. Patients agree, as long as that translates to convenient and affordable access to therapy. |
BusinessWeek
June 25, 2009
Catherine Arnst |
The Family Doctor: A Remedy for Health-Care Costs? How making primary-care physicians the center of America's health-care system could drive down costs. |
American Family Physician
February 15, 2005 |
Health Care After Cancer Treatment An informative patient hand-out on follow-up cancer care. |
American Journal of Nursing
January 2010 |
Life-Support Interventions at the End of Life: Unintended Consequences Nurses need to be knowledgeable life-support interventions at the end of life and able to communicate what they know about those consequences to patients, family members, and others on the health care team, leading to better decision making at this difficult time. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2001
Marc Tunzi |
Can the Patient Decide? Evaluating Patient Capacity in Practice |
