Medical Practice

Magazine articles on medical practice and technical issues of treatment.

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Managed Care December 2007 John Carroll	How Doctors Are Paid Now, And Why It Has to Change Everyone knows about the perverse incentive of fee-for-service medicine, but that hasn't had much effect on its use.
Managed Care December 2007 Lola Butcher	Insurers Get Involved in Campaign Against Hospital-Acquired Infections Health plans prod hospitals to do a better job of addressing problems that kill nearly 100,000 Americans a year.
Managed Care December 2007 John Carroll	New York Plan Emerges As Pattern for Rating Physicians The Empire State's approach to physician ratings quickly gains health plan support and consideration as a national answer.
Managed Care December 2007	Strong Support for Transparency, But Small Effect Expected on Costs Three quarters of health care leaders believe increased transparency -- the public reporting of quality and pricing by name of hospital, physician practice, or health care provider -- is essential to improve the performance of the United States' health care system, according to a survey.
Managed Care December 2007	Medical Directors' Pay up 37% Since `97 -- or Not Salaries of medical directors and associate/assistant medical directors have risen by more than 30% over the last 10 years, according to a 2007 survey.
Managed Care December 2007	Insurers Lean Toward Generic Alternatives More insurers are focusing their attention on a second approach to generic drug management -- generic alternatives, which contain different active ingredients, but have comparable efficacy to brand-name drugs in the same class.
Managed Care December 2007 Thomas Morrow	Human-Derived Clotting Agent Avoids Immunogenicity Evithrom may minimize some of the antibody production associated with bovine proteins, but the possibility of human viral infection exists.
American Journal of Nursing January 2008 Fick & Mion	How to Try This: Delirium Superimposed on Dementia Delirium is common in older adults who have dementia, but too often nurses confuse the symptoms of delirium with those of dementia and it goes unrecognized and untreated. Delirium can signal a serious underlying condition such as infection or dehydration.
American Journal of Nursing January 2008 Maslow & Mezey	Recognition of Dementia in Hospitalized Older Adults Recognition of Dementia in Hospitalized Older Adults proposes several approaches that hospital nurses can use to increase recognition of dementia. This article describes the Try This approaches, how to implement them, and how to incorporate them into a hospital's current admission procedures.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Robert N. Charette	Visualizing Electronic Health Records With "Google-Earth for the Body" IBM researchers develop a 3-D visualization tool for electronic health records.
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