Medical Practice

Magazine articles on medical practice and technical issues of treatment.

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Managed Care May 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Health Plans Are Ill-Prepared for Looming Diabetes Epidemic The problem is outpacing insurers' resources and perhaps even their commitment. Can the chronic care model help?
Managed Care May 2006 Fadia T. Shaya & Deshpande	New Treatment Approaches To Diabetes The goal of diabetes management is maintaining glycemic control while targeting quality of life improvements.
American Family Physician May 15, 2006 McDonald, Swagerty & Wetzel	Assessment of Microscopic Hematuria in Adults Microscopic hematuria, a common finding on routine urinalysis of adults, is clinically significant when three to five red blood cells per high-power field are visible.
American Family Physician May 15, 2006 James S. Millar	Evaluation and Treatment of the Child with Febrile Seizure Up to 5% of children in North America and western Europe experience at least one episode of febrile seizure before six years of age. Most of these seizures are self-limited and patients do not require treatment.
American Family Physician May 15, 2006 Bindra & Braunstein	Thyroiditis Thyroiditis is an inflammation of the thyroid gland that may be painful and tender when caused by infection, radiation, or trauma, or painless when caused by autoimmune conditions, medications, or an idiopathic fibrotic process.
American Family Physician May 15, 2006 Karl E. Miller	Diagnosis and Treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infections If left untreated, N. gonorrhoeae infections can disseminate to other areas of the body, which commonly causes synovium and skin infections. Disseminated gonococcal infection presents as a few skin lesions that are limited to the extremities.
American Family Physician May 15, 2006 Lisa McCarthy	STEPS - Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine System (Mirena) for Contraception The levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system is a reliable, reversible, low-maintenance method of long-term contraception. Rates of failure are similar to those of female sterilization, and the risk of expulsion is minimal for most users.
American Family Physician May 15, 2006 Mark H. Ebell	Point-of-Care Guides: Radiography After Cervical Spine Injury Neck pain caused by blunt trauma from a motor vehicle collision, fall, or other injury is a common occurrence. Many patients who decline ambulance transport after an injury will present to their primary care physician rather than the emergency department.
American Family Physician May 15, 2006 Iris R. Mabry	Putting Prevention Into Practice - Screening for Overweight in Children and Adolescents EH is a five-year-old boy seeing you for a routine well-child examination. His mother is concerned about his weight... Which of the following reasons explain why BMI is the preferred measure for detecting overweight in children and adolescents?...
Insurance & Technology May 3, 2006 Maria Woehr	Building a Foundation Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is helping to lay out a blueprint for the Michigan Health Information Network, which is charting a plan for establishing a statewide electronic health records system.
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