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Coronary Calcium Scores enhance risk prediction; Exacerbations of COPD: Not so innocent; Vitamin E, but not pioglitazone, improves NASH; Best use of home BP monitoring; Suicide risk with anticonvulsants; For type 2 diabetes, after metformin, what next?
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Asymptomatic pulmonary embolism is quite common among patients with deep venous thrombosis. In many instances in these patients, the pulmonary emboli are located within the central pulmonary arteries.
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In patients with cardiovascular disease, light-to- moderate alcohol consumption is significantly associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.
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Health professionals who have worked hard to improve the discharge process might see change occur more quickly in the coming decade as the changes envisioned in national health care reform begin to take effect.
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Patient access leaders at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, NY, knew there was a perception by some people that scheduling medical imaging procedures was difficult. What they didn't know was why.
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Registrars are given two assessment tests each month, covering updates to policies or payer requirements, at St. Anthony Central Hospital in Denver. If someone fails a test, the department's patient access coordinator does a one-on-one educational session, and the test is retaken.
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Patient access staff at Tallahassee (FL) Memorial Hospital are about midway through implementing new software, which Joan S. Braveman, director of patient access and financial services, says "will really take us to the new level."