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Januarys Centers for Health Care Strategies brief on two community integration projects demonstrates the challenges associated with nursing home transitions and the potential benefits of community-based care, including fiscal benefits and improved health outcomes.
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With the escalating threat of biological warfare against the United States, hospitals must be prepared to treat victims of such attacks while protecting employees and patients.
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As states sink more deeply into a financial morass, the Bush administration has proposed additional flexibility for Medicaid as a way out. But some analysts and congressional staffers say a massive infusion of federal money is the answer.
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Medicaid reforms advanced by the Bush administration will do little to resolve basic problems confronting Medicaid managed care as a result of significant changes now under way in the managed care marketplace, says Robert Hurley, PhD, an associate professor in the department of health administration in the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, who reported on his analysis of the marketplace changes in the fall 2002 issue of Health Care Financing Review.
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The emergency department physician can be an advocate for the appropriate use of antibiotics in children by becoming familiar with the pathogenesis of common ENT infections and the latest treatment guidelines for some of these entities. This article reviews common ENT infections, diagnostic criteria, and treatment options.
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Less than a week before Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced a proposal for sweeping Medicaid changes that would require congressional approval, two House Energy and Commerce Committee staff members who participated in a Families USA-sponsored panel on Getting Ready for Medicaid Restructuring demonstrated how hard its going to be to get any changes through a sharply divided Congress.
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Smallpox Vaccination Guidelines Published by CDC; Nurses: Delay
Vaccination Program; Viagra Effective for Depression Treatment;
Finisteride/Doxazosin no Better than Placebo for Urinary Obstruction;
Serevent Receives Dear Doctor Letter
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The objective of this monograph is to provide an overview of the process of organ donation from consent until transplantation of the recovered organs into the selected recipients.
