News tagged with benefited patients

Health care reform should start with paying evidence-based financial incentives to doctors

Healthcare Reform should start with "evidence-based reimbursement", structuring physician payment incentives around existing empirical evidence of clinical benefit, which would improve quality and reduce the cost of healthcare, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Ownership of electronic health information must be addressed, article says

Clarifying legal rights of patient control over electronic health records could be the key to making the best use of the huge amount of electronic medical information that the "Stimulus" funding will create in the next few ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nurse practitioners don't realise how much their prescribing is being influenced by drug marketing

Family nurse practitioners need to be more aware of the commercial pressures they face as a result of their increased involvement in prescribing, according to a survey published in the March issue of the UK-based Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-flux hemodialysis prolongs survival in many patients with CKD

High-flux hemodialysis (which removes large toxins) reduces the risk of premature death in many patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of the American So ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0