News tagged with preventive healthcare
Most recent mammography recommendations confuse public
When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention, released its recommendations on mammography screenings for US women on November 16, 2009, there was immediate ...
Apr 06, 2011 |
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New guidelines for preventing falls in the elderly include: Start tai chi, cut-back on meds
In the first update of the American Geriatrics Society and the British Geriatric Society's guidelines on preventing falls in older persons since 2001, they now recommend that all interventions for preventing ...
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Prompt actions halt alarming infection outbreak at Dallas hospital
Rapid identification and aggressive infection control measures allowed a Dallas hospital to stop the spread of Acinetobacter baumannii, a type of bacteria that has become increasingly prevalent in healthcare facilities and ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Pay-for-performance in healthcare
BOSTON--Although the idea of pay-for-performance (P4P) is popular among healthcare policy makers and private insurers, the results do not necessarily translate to the patient.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 09, 2010 |
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Health information not communicated well to minority populations, researcher finds
According to the Institute of Medicine, more than 90 million Americans suffer from low health literacy¬, a mismatch between patients' abilities to understand healthcare information and providers' abilities ...
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Aging with GRACE: New health care delivery model improves outcomes, saves money
A team approach to preventive healthcare delivery for older adults developed by researchers from Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute improves health and quality of life, decreased emergency department ...
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Mobile health clinics: Saving lives and money
Every $1 invested in mobile healthcare for the medically disenfranchised saves $36 in combined emergency department costs avoided and value of life years saved. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medicine sugges ...
Jun 01, 2009 |
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