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There is no shortage of jaw-dropping numbers associated with health care in the United States, but some numbers leave the mandible resting more squarely on the clavicle than others, as the latest edition of the Dartmouth Atlas Project makes abundantly clear.
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) of Los Angeles recently raised a stir when the organization's president and its medical chief announced that it was time for the federal government to stop funding research for the HIV vaccine and to put that money into prevention and treatment that works.
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Agitation, aggression, and psychosis are predictably problematic in persons with progressive dementia. In fact, more than 90% of dementia patients will experience one or more of these during the course of their illness.
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Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in Anthem Blue Cross' Self-Care Initiative cut their emergency department use for nonemergent conditions in half, earning the Thousand Oaks, CA-based subsidiary of WellPoint Inc. a BlueWorks Award from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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Creating a plan of care for a catastrophically injured patient is a little like creating a patchwork quilt - you gather up scraps from a lot of different places and stitch it together, says Jolynne "Jo" Carter, BSN, RN, CCM.
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A time-honored library tool, called a pathfinder, can be a good resource for patients and families visiting consumer libraries at health care facilities.
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Anna Gibson, RN, CDMS, a case manager specializing in catastrophic injuries and rehabilitation, typically gets a call when a catastrophically injured worker has just arrived at an acute care hospital and has been admitted to the intensive care unit.
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Many people believe that poor eyesight is an inevitable part of aging, yet frequently the blurred vision can be much improved with cataract surgery, says Anne Sumers, MD, in private practice in Ridgewood, NJ, and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, based in San Francisco.
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The number of child sexual abuse cases could be dramatically cut by educating adults on how to prevent it from happening, says Nancy Chandler, ACSW, executive director of the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy in Atlanta.
