News tagged with medical home
Medical home care approach improves efficiency and care at clinic for low-income families
Implementing a Medical Home practice model in a health clinic allows physicians and staff to provide comprehensive care to more patients, and to offer preventive programs and services. This can improve patients' compliance ...
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Angiotensin receptor blockers associated with lower risk of Alzheimer's disease
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) -- a particular class of anti-hypertensive medicines -- are associated with a striking decrease in the occurrence ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Medical home gives patients better primary care at no more cost
A one-year evaluation at Group Health Cooperative is the first to demonstrate the measurable benefit to both patients and staff when a primary care practice adopts a "patient-centered medical home" model. This model gives ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Planned home birth with registered midwife as safe as hospital birth
The risk of infant death following planned home birth attended by a registered midwife does not differ from that of a planned hospital birth, found a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Nonprofit nursing homes provide better care, major study finds
A major new statistical review of 82 individual research studies has revealed that nonprofit nursing homes deliver, on average, higher quality care than for-profit nursing homes. The findings could have a bearing on the present ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Hispanics appear to face poorer quality nursing home care
Nursing homes serving primarily Hispanic residents provided poorer quality care compared to facilities whose patients were mostly white, according to Brown University research. Details were published recently in the Journal of ...
Apr 10, 2009 |
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