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In this thoughtful, well-balanced review, Clarke and Guttman review the evidence for using new dopamine agonists to treat patients with early PD.
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The Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group (AACTG) has responded to research showing a link between HIV antiretroviral treatment and meta-bolic disorders with guidelines that offer recommendations for assessing, monitoring, and treating the problem.
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While the exact cause remains to be found, it is no longer a mystery whether certain antiretroviral drugs can lead to metabolic changes associated with heart disease.
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While there are some similarities between HIV and tuberculosis (TB) treatments, its the differences in treatment regimens, duration, and end results that have made HIV clinicians and others somewhat hesitant to use the directly observed treatment (DOT) strategy, which has been so successful in treating TB, with HIV patients.
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A new protease inhibitor (PI) called atazanavir was found to actually improve the lipid profile of HIV patients in a 48-week study presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), held in Chicago.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new rapid HIV diagnostic test kit that provides results with 99.6% accuracy in as little as 20 minutes.
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America received a grade of mediocre on its care for the dying in a new report from the Washington, DC-based organization Last Acts, Means to a Better End. The report, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ, provides a state-by-state report card on end-of-life (EOL) care.
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This is the third in a three-part series on the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) performance improvement program, Living Our Promises, Acting on Faith. The previous article described how the baseline data derived from a comparative date process informed the selection of a specific area targeted for performance improvement. In this final installment, we see how CHA empowered its members to benchmark successful practices implemented at other member facilities and systems.
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As part of St. Louis-based SSM Health Cares (SSMHC) Clinical Collaborative process, physicians work with other caregivers, administrators, and staff to make rapid improvements in clinical outcomes.
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Until this year, no health care organization has captured the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA), the top honor a U.S. company can receive for quality management and quality achievement.
