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Three 8-oz glasses of fat-free milk per day provided significant relief to patients with functional constipation.
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The introduction of acellular pertussis vaccines represented an important advance in public health, but developing a vaccine is not synonymous with protecting a population.
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The FDA has approved the first oral medication for the treatment of patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.
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The prophylactic use of aspirin (asa) provides risk reduction when used for secondary prophylaxis.
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The ECG above was obtained from a slender and previously healthy 27-year-old woman having atypical chest discomfort. Is there evidence of chamber enlargement?
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There's little doubt that as health care reform rolls out and all payers tighten their reimbursement, hospitals are going to depend more and more on case managers to help them ensure that patients receive the appropriate services in an efficient manner and safely move to the next level of care.
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If you're not already doing it, you need to start reviewing the cases of your patients receiving Medicaid benefits as vigorously as you do those of Medicare patients.
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In 2004, as talk of health care reform escalated, North Oaks Health System appointed a multidisciplinary process improvement team to determine what changes the hospital needed to make to prepare for where health care was going in the future.
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In three months following participation in a program that provides care management and outpatient services to the frail elderly in their homes after discharge, patients in Dartmouth Hitchcock Regional Medical Center's Bridge Program experienced a 41% decrease in emergency department visits and a 27% decrease in inpatient admissions compared to the three months before the program began.
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After The Reading Hospital in Reading, PA, implemented multidisciplinary walking rounds, patient satisfaction increased and length of stay decreased at the 615-bed tertiary care hospital.
