News tagged with medicine physicians
Doctors lax in monitoring potentially addicting drugs
Few primary care physicians pay adequate attention to patients taking prescription opioid drugs -- despite the potential for abuse, addiction and overdose, according to a new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Adverse drug events costly to health care system: research
Patients who suffer an adverse medical event arising from the use or misuse of medications are more costly to the health care system than other emergency department (ED) patients, say physicians and research scientists at ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Health care spending: Study shows high imaging costs for defensive purposes
Nearly 35 percent of all the imaging costs ordered for 2,068 orthopaedic patient encounters in Pennsylvania were ordered for defensive purposes, according to a new study presented today at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Massachusetts physician groups improving patient experience, study finds
Most Massachusetts physician groups are using results from a statewide patient survey to help improve patient experiences, but a significant number are not making use of the information or are making relatively limited efforts, ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Information patients use to pick physicians not always good predictor of quality, study finds
When looking for a new physician, patients are often encouraged to select those who are board certified or who have not made payments on malpractice claims. Yet these characteristics are not always a good predictor of which ...
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Physicians perform poorly when patients need special care
Patients often receive inappropriate care when their doctors fail to take into account their individual circumstances, according to a new study by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the VA Center for Management of ...
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Study finds higher STD rates among users of erectile dysfunction drugs
Physicians who prescribe erectile dysfunction drugs for their male patients should be sure to discuss the importance of safer sex practices, even with older patients: that is an important implication of a report in the July ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 05, 2010 |
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AMA's position on coverage expansion was inconsistent with the views of most physicians
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that the majority of physicians and members of the American Medical Association (AMA) opposed the AMA's position on coverage expansions--the most contentious issue ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Physicians should help patients with depression name their problem
Because people with depression often do not recognize they have a problem or are unable to describe their distress, many do not seek treatment. About a quarter of those with major depression are undiagnosed, according to ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 20, 2010 |
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Results of physician cost profiling can vary widely, study finds
Profiles created for physicians based on the cost of the care they provide can vary widely depending upon the methods used by insurance companies to create the profiles, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
May 18, 2010 |
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Survey finds general internists leave practice sooner than subspecialists
A survey conducted by the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) found that 9 percent of all internists originally certified between 1990 and 1995, including a significantly ...
May 07, 2010 |
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Women want answers, but what questions should be asked?
One in two women in the United States will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in her lifetime. However, according to a review article published in the May 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Su ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 03, 2010 |
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Efforts to steer patients to lower-cost physicians may be based on misleading rankings, study finds
Increasingly common insurance plans that encourage patients to receive care from physicians who keep medical costs lower are based on unreliable estimates of doctor performance and may not achieve the intended savings, according ...
Mar 17, 2010 |
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One-page questionnaire is effective screening tool for common psychiatric disorders
A one-page, 27-item questionnaire that is available free online is a valid and effective tool to help primary care doctors screen patients for four common psychiatric illnesses, a study led by University of North Carolina ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Saving Lives With Cell Phones
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research shows that only one-third of people who have been trained in CPR will actually perform CPR in an emergency - the other two-thirds do nothing. Bystanders frequently state that they don't act because ...
Mar 03, 2010 |
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