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American Family Physician April 1, 2004 Thibodeau & Viera |
Atypical Pathogens and Challenges in Community-Acquired Pneumonia Atypical organisms such as Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and Legionella pneumophila are implicated in up to 40 percent of cases of community-acquired pneumonia. |
American Family Physician April 1, 2004 Elizabeth Baxley |
Shoulder Dystocia Shoulder dystocia can be one of the most frightening emergencies in the delivery room. |
Managed Care March 2004 Christine A. Sorkness |
IgE-Blocking Therapy for Difficult-to-Treat Asthma: A Brief Review Omalizumab, a novel therapy that targets specific steps in the inflammatory cascade of asthma, may benefit the hard-to-treat patient. |
Managed Care March 2004 |
Smoking-Cessation Efforts Set Cost-Effectiveness Bar The recent 40th anniversary of the surgeon general's report on smoking brought some staggering statistics to the public's attention |
Managed Care March 2004 |
Health care execs say consumers lack information on quality "Consumers are miserably armed right now to make judgments on quality," Humphrey Taylor, chairman of Harris Interactive's Harris Poll, told attendees at the World Health Care Congress. |
Managed Care March 2004 |
Hospitals Retain Bargaining Edge In Contract Talks Contract negotiations between health plans and providers, primarily hospitals, were mild in 2002 and 2003, compared to how they played out in 2000 and 2001. |
Managed Care March 2004 Michael S. Victoroff |
'Often Wrong, Never in Doubt' It's easy to blame the uninformed, and sometimes fair, but are the ignorant the only ones at fault? Medical professionals need to be able to explain, not just order and direct. |
Managed Care March 2004 |
Physician-owned practices benefit from diverse mix of specialists Practices, whether they are physician-owned or hospital-affiliated, are likely going to be more aggressive in negotiating private reimbursement in the future. |
Managed Care March 2004 Thomas Morrow |
Insulin Pumps Buy Time Until Transplant Therapy Arrives Improvements in the features of diabetes pumps have evolved since their original backpack-size days. Managed care needs to evaluate the new bells and whistles. |
Managed Care March 2004 MargaretAnn Cross |
Wellness Program Gets On-the-Job Training Pepsi promises that work-site clinics won't take business away from health plans. One of the goals of the clinics is to establish ties with the local medical community in order to launch disease management and wellness programs, as well as to set up referral capabilities for the clinics. |
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