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Research from the past two decades shows that fewer Americans are dying in hospitals, and more are dying at home and in nursing homes.
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Medicare officials recently announced the three states where Medicare will conduct a demonstration project involving a new definition of homebound that would allow Medicare beneficiaries receiving home health benefits to leave their homes more frequently and for longer periods without risking the loss of benefits.
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If you still are doing last-minute ramp-up preparation for surveys by the Joint Commission, youre going to have big problems with the Shared Visions New Pathways process, warns Lynne Adams, CPHQ, director of quality at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD.
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The legal issues that apply to telehospice chiefly relate to the legal issues that already affect health care, including licensure, Medicares Conditions of Participation, accreditation, and malpractice laws, with some added details, an expert says.
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Experts predict a bigger role for telehealth in the hospice industry as model programs demonstrate high patient/caregiver satisfaction and improved staff efficiency and quality of care.
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Although beta-blockers are known to reduce the sensitivity of exercise and dobutamine sestamibi SPECT imaging for the detection of coronary artery disease, little is known about their effects on vasodilator stress scintigraphy. Thus, Taillefer and colleagues studied 21 patients with catheter proven coronary artery disease during 3 different treatments on different days assigned in a random fashion.
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A United Kingdom survey of sudden arrhythmic death syndrome in 32 victims aged 4-64 with normal hearts at autopsy and a negative toxicologic screening test evaluated first-degree relatives of these victims.
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In this paper, Oral and colleagues compared 2 current ablation techniques in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
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This widely publicized small trial has catapulted the mutant form of ApoA-1 Milano into the limelight. Many investigators have been working with this interesting lipoprotein since it was discovered in the 1980s that 38 carriers from a small village in Northern Italy have very low HDL levels but very little vascular disease.
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What characteristics of a neuropathy make Sjögren syndrome the likely diagnosis?
