Medical Practice

Magazine articles on medical practice and technical issues of treatment.

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Managed Care August 2007 Patrick Mullen	Bringing Guidelines into the Real World An interview with Jim Schibanoff, editor-in-chief of Milliman Care Guidelines, regarding the current state of the art technology behind guidelines, and how their use might evolve over the next several years.
Managed Care August 2007 Thomas Morrow	Gene Expression Microarray Improves Prediction of Breast Cancer Outcomes Flash-frozen samples of surgically removed breast cancer tissue are the key to measuring a patient's risk of metastasis.
Nursing September 1, 2007 Mary Unruh Fagley	Taking Charge of Seizure Activity Learn what happens during a seizure when the brain's electric signals go awry and how you can help someone plagued by the disturbing effects.
Chemistry World August 31, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Gut's Taste for the Sweet Life Revealed A sugar-sensing receptor in the intestine could explain why drinking diet cola may hinder obese people who hope to lose weight and lead to new ways of treating obesity and diabetes.
Managed Care July 2007 R. Knight Steel	Incentives Work Against Proper Elder Care The health care system encourages a reaction to episodes that is both costly and inefficient.
Managed Care July 2007	AMA: Patients Will Feel Cuts in Medicare Next year's proposed 10 percent cut in Medicare payments is serving as a rallying point for members of the American Medical Association, which says the cuts will make it difficult for physicians to accept new Medicare patients.
American Journal of Nursing August 2007 Pun & Dunn	The Sedation of Critically Ill Adults: Management Pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic management of anxiety and agitation in the ICU.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 3, 2007 LeVine & Zucker	Marketing to Professionals: Professional Promotion Through Patient Understanding Patient-feedback programs can go a long way in helping physicians understand which drugs work.
Managed Care July 2007 Tom Reinke	Better Ways to Pay Providers Paying for coordinating care and for packages of services -- bundling and episodes of care -- may be the best bet for a modification of the unfettered fee-for-service system.
Managed Care July 2007 Alan Adler	Why Blogs? Don't dismiss this development in Web communication. Blogs -- the best of them -- conduct serious and extensive discussions of health care policy and provide important new information.
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