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While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has been calling on EDs to routinely test patients for HIV since 2006, the practice is hardly widespread.
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Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group in Chicago is partnering with Walgreens to counsel patients with chronic illnesses on their disease and medication and to support them in following their medication regimen. So far, patients in the pilot have increased their medication adherence on five different drugs by 5%.
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Based on the positive outcomes of a health coaching pilot for its employees with diabetes, Advocate Health Care, an integrated healthcare system based in Oak Brook, IL, now offers health coaching to its patients, employees, spouses, and employer groups as part of its comprehensive wellness solution.
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Providers and insurers are starting to add lifestyle coaching to the range of interventions they provide to help motivate people to take charge of their own health and make changes in the way they live that help them live healthier, more productive lives.
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Health care costs for participants in a health and wellness coaching program were $19 to $22 per member per month less than for a control group in a study by an independent researcher conducted for Medica, a health insurance company with headquarters in Minneapolis.
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If a health system wins a major national quality award, it must be doing something right, but also something different from other organizations, right? Ask one and likely at some point, a spokesperson will says something about focusing on the patient and striving to improve. But not everyone.
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With federal regulators shifting toward policies that would facilitate more central IRBs for multisite research, human subjects research protection offices need to take note and develop guidelines and tools for handling shared IRB responsibilities in multisite trials, an expert says.
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IRBs and investigators sometimes waste time on unnecessary IRB submissions. A simple initial review triage checklist can eliminate this problem, one IRB has discovered.
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The report prepared for the University of Michigan about international research conducted there lays out a series of recommendations that can aid other institutions' investigators and IRBs.