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For as long as humans have been taking care of other humans who are sick or hurt, the rendering of solace and physical comfort has been the core from which all other types of aid have grown. But a nurse and ethicist in California says that ignoring the value of giving of solace and comfort amounts to turning away from the prime reason for the practice of medicine.
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A Harvard Medical School study has found that current practice management strategies and financial arrangements have a limited impact on the quality of care for patients with diabetes.
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As part of its efforts to promote preventive care and appropriate management of chronic diseases, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has begun the Recognizing Physician Excellence (RPE) program, which will reward physicians based on several criteria, including patient satisfaction, clinical quality and efficiency, and administrative efficiency.
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As employers look at ways to deal with escalating health care costs, case managers likely will find themselves playing key roles. They will not, however, be the only ones in the game. Case managers complement disease managers as the two roles become integrated for more powerful care coordination.
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Although the most common reasons for hospitalization among HIV patients in six hospitals nationwide are for comorbidities, there remains a significant rate of hospitalization for opportunistic infections (OIs), a new study says.
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As health insurance costs escalate and employers provide a lower level of coverage for employees or cut out insurance benefits altogether, the number of workers with no health insurance is on the rise. Meanwhile, states are struggling with dwindling funds for Medicaid and are slashing benefits, and an unprecedented number of undocumented workers are seeking care in hospital emergency departments.
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The uninsured; The underinsured; Indigent patients; Undocumented workers.
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The sign over your emergency departments (ED) door may say emergency, but the people who walk in may not necessarily be having one.
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One of the great challenges in the whole world of quality and patient safety is learning to take advantage of the richness of clinical cases, says Robert M. Wachter, MD, professor and associate chairman in the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and chief of the medical service at UCSF Medical Center.
