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Proper care of diabetic foot infections can save limbs, lives
Diabetic foot infections are an increasingly common problem, but proper care can save limbs and, ultimately, lives, suggest new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
The details of direct primary care
The New York Times examines the emergence of direct primary care in the health care marketplace and links this concept back to concierge medicine. In a separate New York Times story, one health industry expert offers his take on how to control costs while improving access to care -- it ...
IT Planning For Data And Infrastructure Key To Sustaining Care Following Disasters
A new article titled, "An HIT Solution for Clinical Care and Disaster Planning: How One Health Center in Joplin, MO, Survived a Tornado and Avoided a Health Information Disaster," by the Geiger Gibson /RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health ...
Landmark textbook on health care and the US legal system released
(George Washington University) The second edition of 'Law and the American Health Care System' was released by Foundation Press on May 15, 2012. Building on its 1997 predecessor, the second edition textbook offers a comprehensive vision and analysis of the intersection of law and the US health care system. Law ...
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Can Be Managed Successfully In The Primary Care Setting
Patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can be successfully managed in a primary care setting by appropriately trained primary care physicians (PCPs) and community-based nurses, according to Australian researchers...
Night Staffing With Critical Care Docs May Lower ICU Death Rates
MONDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Having so-called intensivist physicians on staff in intensive care units during the night can reduce death rates in ICUs that do not have similar coverage during the day, according to a large new study. An intensivist is a doctor who specializes in the ...
Two health care nonprofit co-ops receive health law loans
These two co-ops, located in Nevada and Michigan, received a total of $135 million in loans from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Improving Cancer Patients’ Quality Of Life By A Nurse Practitioner-Driven Palliative Care Intervention
Recent studies have shown that palliative care interventions aimed at addressing patients' emotional, spiritual and social needs have a significant impact on cancer patients' quality of life and may even improve cancer patients' overall survival. Despite this, most cancer patients being cared for in their communities do not have access ...
Primary care-based management can reduce burden of OSA
Patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can be successfully managed in a primary care setting by appropriately trained primary care physicians (PCPs) and community-based nurses, according to Australian researchers.
Personal Genetic Test Results Have Not Driven Overuse Of Expensive Medical Care
People have more and more chances to participate in genetic testing that can indicate their range of risk for developing a disease. Receiving these results does not appreciably drive up - or diminish - test recipients' demand for potentially costly follow-up health services, according to a new study in the ...
OSA can be managed successfully in the primary care setting
(American Thoracic Society) Patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea can be successfully managed in a primary care setting by appropriately trained primary care physicians and community-based nurses, according to Australian researchers.