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Washington Post Profiles Minn. Abortion Provider Filling Void Of Doctors In South Dakota

Categorie : Primary Care / General Practice
The Washington Post on Friday profiled abortion provider Carol Ball, who travels from her home state of Minnesota to offer the procedure at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D. No South Dakota doctor has performed elective abortions in the state since 1994... ...

read more The Washington Post on Friday profiled abortion provider Carol Ball, who travels from her home state of Minnesota to offer the procedure at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D. No South Dakota doctor has performed elective abortions in the state since 1994... read more Fri Mar 2010

The Most Frequent Error In Medicine

Categorie : Primary Care / General Practice
The most frequent error in medicine seems to occur nearly one out of three times a patient is referred to a specialist. A new study found that nearly a third of patients age 65 and older referred to a specialist are not scheduled for appointments and therefore do not receive the treatment their prim ...

read more The most frequent error in medicine seems to occur nearly one out of three times a patient is referred to a specialist. A new study found that nearly a third of patients age 65 and older referred to a specialist are not scheduled for appointments and therefore do not receive the treatment their prim read more Fri Mar 2010

With Rate Cut Looming, Doctors Threaten To Stop Accepting Medicare Patients

Categorie : Primary Care / General Practice
With a 21 percent Medicare reimbursement rate cut set for Monday, unless Congress acts to block it, some doctors are threatening to refuse new Medicare patients in their practices... ...

read more With a 21 percent Medicare reimbursement rate cut set for Monday, unless Congress acts to block it, some doctors are threatening to refuse new Medicare patients in their practices... read more Fri Mar 2010

Hours Worked By Physicians Have Decreased Steadily In Last Decade

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After remaining stable for 2 decades, the average hours worked per week by physicians decreased by about 7 percent between 1996 and 2008, according to a study in the February 24 issue of JAMA... ...

read more After remaining stable for 2 decades, the average hours worked per week by physicians decreased by about 7 percent between 1996 and 2008, according to a study in the February 24 issue of JAMA... read more Fri Mar 2010

Strategies Help Clinicians Say 'No' To Inappropriate Treatment Requests

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Clinicians may use one of several approaches to deny patient requests for an inappropriate treatment while preserving the physician-patient relationship, according to a report in the February 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals... ...

read more Clinicians may use one of several approaches to deny patient requests for an inappropriate treatment while preserving the physician-patient relationship, according to a report in the February 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals... read more Fri Mar 2010

Doctors Urge Caution Over Short-Term Cuts, Northern Ireland

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Doctors in Northern Ireland have today called for the future sustainability of Northern Ireland's health service to be made a priority... ...

read more Doctors in Northern Ireland have today called for the future sustainability of Northern Ireland's health service to be made a priority... read more Fri Mar 2010

High-Risk Cardiovascular Patients Undertreated In General Practice, Australia

Categorie : Primary Care / General Practice
Patients who are at high risk of a cardiovascular event are substantially undertreated, according to the authors of a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia... ...

read more Patients who are at high risk of a cardiovascular event are substantially undertreated, according to the authors of a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia... read more Fri Mar 2010

Academic Medical Center Finds Significant Amount Of Inappropriate CT And MRI Referrals From Primary Care Physicians

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A large academic medical center has found that a significant percentage of outpatient referrals they receive from primary care physicians for computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies are inappropriate (based upon evidence-based appropriateness criteria developed by a rad ...

read more A large academic medical center has found that a significant percentage of outpatient referrals they receive from primary care physicians for computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies are inappropriate (based upon evidence-based appropriateness criteria developed by a rad read more Fri Mar 2010

Medicare Cuts To Doctors Payments Go Into Effect Today

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Starting today, doctors face a 21 percent cut in their reimbursements from Medicare based on a federal budget law that sets physican payments based on other economic factors. In past years, Congress has routinely waived such cuts. The House passed a bill to again postpone the cuts but a similar atte ...

read more Starting today, doctors face a 21 percent cut in their reimbursements from Medicare based on a federal budget law that sets physican payments based on other economic factors. In past years, Congress has routinely waived such cuts. The House passed a bill to again postpone the cuts but a similar atte read more Fri Mar 2010

Major Tech Firms Join Ranks Of Health IT Squad

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"The race to streamline online access to medical records turned into a stampede this week as leading high-tech vendors trumpeted new initiatives at the Health Information and Management Systems Society" (HIMSS) trade show in Atlanta," InternetNews... ...

Stimulus Spurs Health IT Adoption, But Rush May Hurt Programs' Quality

Categorie : Primary Care / General Practice
Within the next two years, 58 percent of small physician practices surveyed by Accenture and Harris Interactive will have begun using electronic medical records, Computerworld/BusinessWeek reports... ...

read more Within the next two years, 58 percent of small physician practices surveyed by Accenture and Harris Interactive will have begun using electronic medical records, Computerworld/BusinessWeek reports... read more Fri Mar 2010

New Jersey Hospital Offers Luxury With Health, Wellness

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The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on Virtua Health system's newly opened Health and Wellness Center in New Jersey, and calls it "the new face of luxury." The center was a $31 million investment by the non-profit group and it is expected to do well. "While many New Jersey hospitals grapple with bare ...

read more The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on Virtua Health system's newly opened Health and Wellness Center in New Jersey, and calls it read more Fri Mar 2010

Treatment Errors Report, Germany

Categorie : Primary Care / General Practice
Current health care is not as safe as it should be. In the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107[6]: 92-9), Barbara Hoffmann and Julia Rohe explain the reasons for adverse events, as well as measures to ensure better patient safety. Treatment can make you ...

read more Current health care is not as safe as it should be. In the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107[6]: 92-9), Barbara Hoffmann and Julia Rohe explain the reasons for adverse events, as well as measures to ensure better patient safety. Treatment can make you read more Fri Mar 2010

Future Of Australia's Health In GPs' Hands

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Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has just presented the Government's National Health and Hospital Network for Australia's future report, which he described as 'the most significant reforms to health and hospitals since the introduction of Medicare'... ...

read more Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has just presented the Government's National Health and Hospital Network for Australia's future report, which he described as 'the most significant reforms to health and hospitals since the introduction of Medicare'... read more Fri Mar 2010

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Launch Groundbreaking Videourology Journal

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Videourology™ is the first and only videojournal for urologists, publishing fully peer-reviewed surgical and micro-invasive video demonstrations of the latest techniques and technologies used to optimize surgical patient care. Videourology™ is Part B of the respected Flagship publication Journa ...

read more Videourology™ is the first and only videojournal for urologists, publishing fully peer-reviewed surgical and micro-invasive video demonstrations of the latest techniques and technologies used to optimize surgical patient care. Videourology™ is Part B of the respected Flagship publication Journa read more Wed Feb 2010

Health Stories By Experts More Credible Than Blogs

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Health information written by a doctor is rated as more credible when it appears on a Web site than in a blog or a homepage, according to a study of college students. The findings highlight the relative importance of different online sources to people who seek health information on the Internet... ...

read more Health information written by a doctor is rated as more credible when it appears on a Web site than in a blog or a homepage, according to a study of college students. The findings highlight the relative importance of different online sources to people who seek health information on the Internet... read more Wed Feb 2010

Recommendations To Improve GP Out Of Hours Services, UK

Categorie : Primary Care / General Practice
A report into GP Out-Of-Hours care that makes a number of recommendations for improving the system was published by the Department of Health... ...

read more A report into GP Out-Of-Hours care that makes a number of recommendations for improving the system was published by the Department of Health... read more Wed Feb 2010

IGRT, SBRT Guidelines Issued By ASTRO, ACR

Categorie : Primary Care / General Practice
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) have released practice guidelines for image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in the February issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology* ...

read more The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) have released practice guidelines for image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in the February issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology* read more Wed Feb 2010

Ohio Hospitals Advertise ER Wait Times On Billboards, Internet

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Akron General Health System, a hospital system in Ohio, "recently began advertising up-to-the-minute wait times for its emergency rooms on billboards throughout town," the Akron Beacon Journal reports... ...

read more Akron General Health System, a hospital system in Ohio, read more Wed Feb 2010

Scotland's GPs Call For More Support To Build New Surgeries In Growing Communities

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GP leaders have called on the Scottish Government to create new measures to support the development of new GP practices in growing communities. The calls came from the BMA and Royal College of General Practitioners at the start of the first ever National General Practice Week in Scotland (8 - 12 Feb ...

read more GP leaders have called on the Scottish Government to create new measures to support the development of new GP practices in growing communities. The calls came from the BMA and Royal College of General Practitioners at the start of the first ever National General Practice Week in Scotland (8 - 12 Feb read more Wed Feb 2010

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