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• in Politics
  Rising cost of Emergency Admissions in UK
  What is to be done about the Emergency Room - a hole in the system you pour money into?
  by hugie / on Jul 5, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “primary care”

 

• Financial Problems & Don’t Know What To Do

  
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  Don’t know what to do. Hello my name is Andrew, I am actually asking these things for both me and my grandma. She is 72 and i am 20 years old living with her. It seems every month we find it harder and harder to get by. She only makes money via social security, and after bills are payed we have 75-50 dollars left ...
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• Polycom RealPresence Video Solutions Help Saint Vincent Health System Treat 65 Stroke Victims from Hundreds of Miles Away

  
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  Polycom today announced that Saint Vincent Health System has built a telehealth network with Polycom RealPresence video solutions that makes healthcare more accessible by visually connecting healthcare professionals and patients in virtual environments across 26 facilities in Pennsylvania. The issue of location is ...
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• Why Priscilla Chan may become the country’s most influential doctor

  
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  Who has the potential to be the most influential physician of our generation? It’s Priscilla Chan , who not only recently graduated from medical school, but also married Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. When I brought this up on Twitter, someone responded that it was “disappointing at the same time. I’m ...
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• Adoption of Information Technology in Primary Care Physician Offices in Alberta and Denmark, Part 2: A Novel Comparison Methodology

  
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  Source: Protti D et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 8(1) Content: This article follows on from part 1 on the history of medical computing in Alberta and Denmark (Protti et al. 2007). It provides background to the driving forces for automation in primary care physician offices in Denmark and Alberta. It also summarizes the ...
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• Four TPP practices pilot records access

  
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  Source: Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Content: “Four TPP practices are piloting a scheme to provide patients with access to their health records online; but the company’s clinical director has said many GPs still have concerns.TPP is piloting the functionality for patients to access their own records through ...
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• Confused about prostate cancer screening? Make a shared decision

  
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  In a widely anticipated move, the USPSTF officially recommended against prostate cancer screening in healthy men. Case closed, right? Hardly. The prostate cancer screening debate has been raging for the past decade. Increasing amounts of evidence show that screening does not save lives, and increase the risk of ...
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• Biomarkers of Stroke in Postmenopausal Women

  
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  Among postmenopausal women, baseline triglycerides, very low-density lipoprotein size, and intermediate-density lipoprotein particle number appear to be significantly associated with incident ischemic stroke, according to findings from a prospective study. The authors noted, however, that no significant baseline ...
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• Diabetes-Related LEAs: The Impact of Location

  
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  About 80,000 lower-extremity amputations (LEAs) are performed each year on patients with diabetes in the United States. Statistical analyses have shown that the annual incidence of LEA in older patients with diabetes was 5.0 per 1,000 in 2006-2007, but decreased … Related posts: Helpful Guidelines for Heart Health ...
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• Trends in Physical Activity Recommendations

  
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  According to CDC research conducted between 2000 and 2010, the percentage of adults whose healthcare providers recommended exercise or physical activity increased from 21.0% to 30.3% in men and from 23.9% to 34.1% in women. Among those aged 85 and … Related posts: Physical Activity Recommendations for Patients ...
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• Controlling Glucose: Mobile Apps to the Rescue

  
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  In the United States, diabetes affects 25.8 million people, for whom the costs of care exceed $100 billion annually. Clinical trials suggest that improved self-care and lifestyle changes can lead to better diabetes-related outcomes. Unfor­tunately, other studies indicate that just … Related posts: Interpreting ...
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• Nighttime Intensivist Staffing And Mortality In The ICU

  
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  Nighttime intensivist physician staffing in intensive care units (ICUs) with a low-intensity daytime staffing model is associated with reduced mortality, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Francisco. ...
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• Judging ICU Performance By Assessing In-Hospital Mortality May Bias Quality Measurement

  
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  In-hospital mortality for ICU patients is often used as a quality measure, but discharge practices may bias results in a way that disadvantages large academic hospitals, according to a recently conducted study. "Hospitals differ in the number of patients they transfer to other hospitals or post-acute care facilities," ...
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• Method of Electronic Health Record Documentation and Quality of Primary Care

  
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  Source: Linder JA et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2012 Content: Objective Physicians who more intensively interact with electronic health records (EHRs) through their documentation style may pay greater attention to coded fields and clinical decision support and thus may deliver higher quality care. We measured the ...
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• Domhnall MacAuley: Exporting UK style quality and outcomes to Switzerland

  
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  TweetClocks, watches, mountains, and trains. Clean Swiss efficiency. So, I was fascinated to learn about Swiss primary care when speaking at a recent conference in Lausanne; mostly single handed, still predominantly male, and with limited use of electronic records. Joining me from the UK was...
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• No NHS information strategy will work until attitudes change

  
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  As the health service awaits an information strategy launch, the patient from hell comes up with his own suggestions Katie Davis, director general and managing director NHS informatics at the Department of Health, will be launching her NHS information strategy "real soon". This launch was originally planned for the ...
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• Doctors, use Google to get more patients in less than 7 minutes

  
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  Every month, hundreds of thousands of people look for a doctor on Google. As an amazing practitioner, your site deserves to be seen by these patients, and that means being on the first page of search results.  Getting on that first page can be tricky, but there is one ridiculously easy thing you can do to improve ...
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• Necessary is a word best defined when looking back in time

  
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  How do you define a “good” doc?  I was reading the patient responses to an article here on KevinMD.com and was saddened by how many of the patients were angry with their docs.  Anger is an unhealthy emotion!  One of the respondents was particularly angry about the “unnecessary” tests her doc performed on ...
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• QD: News Every Day--CDC says team approach better controls blood pressure

  
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  Physician-led teams provide more effective care for controlling blood pressure, reports the CDCs Community Preventive Services Task Force. About one in three adults in the United States has hypertension, and less than half have it under control. If all hypertensive patients could reach the goals specified in ...
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• Electronic health record-based surveillance of diagnostic errors in primary care

  
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  Source: Singh H et al, BMJ Quality and Safety, 21(2) Content: BACKGROUNDDiagnostic errors in primary care are harmful but difficult to detect. The authors tested an electronic health record (EHR)-based method to detect diagnostic errors in routine primary care practice.METHODSThe authors conducted a retrospective ...
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• How to get ahead in ... school nursing

  
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  The Nitty Nora image of the school nurse does not match the reality of todays professional. Debbie Andalo reports The role of the school nurse has changed significantly from the traditional image of somebody who checks children for nits and hands out paracetamol with a few words of comfort. Today, a school nurse ...
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