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Synopsis: This is the first trial comparing carboplatin and cisplatin in the treatment of advanced NSCLC. Although paclitaxel/carboplatin yielded a similar response rate, the significantly longer median survival obtained with paclitaxel/cisplatin indicates that cisplatin-based chemotherapy should be the first treatment option.
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Synopsis: Recurrent venous thromboembolism and/or bleeding occur in a subset of patients treated with anticoagulant therapy for deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
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Synopsis: Investigators at MD Anderson conducted a prospective, randomized study of estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) in women with prior early stage breast cancer.
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Synopsis: The treatment of choice for multiple brain metastases is whole-brain radiotherapy. Patients with medically or technically inoperable solitary brain metastases also receive radiotherapy.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced recently the granting of deeming authority for critical access hospitals to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, meaning these hospitals will be considered to have met Medicare certification requirements once the Joint Commission accredits them.
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What is the purpose of your health care organization? To survive and prosper, of course. But the question is, by what method? What you need is everybody working to improve performance, and to do that, you need the means to determine how well processes are working for patients.
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The innovative quality improvement program that greatly improved patient care in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system could be available to all hospitals within a year, according to program leaders who say the system could revolutionize health care quality.
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Clinical laboratories will have a new method for measuring proficiency and demonstrating that they have met quality standards, under a new accreditation plan announced recently by the American Proficiency Institute (API) in Traverse City, MI; the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) in Chicago; and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.
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With the advent of Shared Visions New Pathways, a great many things about the Joint Commissions survey process will change in 2004, but the collection of ORYX data isnt necessarily one of them, says Jarod M. Loeb, PhD, vice president of research and performance measurement with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.