Medical Practice

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Managed Care October 2004 Tony Schueth	Formulary Standards Key To E-Prescribing Success Electronic prescribing needs standardization before it's adopted by the masses. Start with the format of formulary databases.
Managed Care October 2004 Michael S. Victoroff	'Dr. Jeeves' Gives Rich Medical Star Treatment Boutique medicine is dysfunctional, but probably not unethical, so long as the lucky patients understand that they're not necessarily paying for better care.
Managed Care October 2004	Pediatric Antidepressant Use Drops 18 Percent After an FDA advisory warned health care providers that some children and teenagers can become suicidal when prescribed antidepressants, the percentage of eligible patients taking these agents dropped considerably.
Managed Care October 2004 Thomas Morrow	Wound Healing Promoted with Living-Skin Substitutes Traditional therapies predominate in wound care, but for those patients with chronic conditions, engineered skin may be a welcome relief from pain and infection.
Reactive Reports Issue 41 David Bradley	I Can See Clearly Now Patients could recover from cataract surgery a lot quicker thanks to the development of a new, adhesive hydrogel that can be painted over incisions in the eye.
American Family Physician October 15, 2004 Stulberg, Crandell & Fawcett	Diagnosis and Treatment of Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinomas Rates of squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas have been increasing. Primary care physicians can expect to diagnose six to seven cases of basal cell carcinoma and one to two cases of squamous cell carcinoma each year.
American Family Physician October 15, 2004 Furman, Rayner & Tobin	Pneumonia in Older Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities Compared with community-dwelling persons, residents in long-term care facilities have more functional disabilities and underlying medical illnesses and are at increased risk of acquiring infectious diseases. Pneumonia is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in this group.
American Family Physician October 15, 2004 Randy K. Ward	Assessment and Management of Personality Disorders Patients with personality disorders are common in primary care settings; caring for them can be difficult. The characteristics of these patients' personalities tend to elicit strong feelings in physicians, lead to the development of problematic physician-patient relationships, and complicate the task of diagnosing and managing medical and psychiatric disorders.
American Family Physician October 15, 2004 As-Sanie, Gantt & Rosenthal	Pregnancy Prevention in Adolescents The family physician plays a key role by engaging adolescent patients in confidential, open, and nonthreatening discussions of reproductive health, responsible sexual behavior, and contraceptive use.
American Family Physician October 15, 2004 Mark H. Ebell	Point-of-Care Guides When should radiographs be obtained in patients with an ankle or foot injury?
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