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Colorectal cancer is primarily a disease of older people, with more than 50% of patients being older than age 70.
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It has been recently identified that nadir values in serial CA125 values during adjuvant primary post-operative chemotherapy are prognostic even within the normal range (less than 35).
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Aggressive LDL lowering with statins, so-called "very intensive statin therapy," leads to reversal of coronary atherosclerosis, according to a new study.
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Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is a common incidental finding but requires differentiation from multiple myeloma (MM).
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Venous thromboembolism (vte) is a major complication following gynecologic abdominal surgery that may be fatal in up to 1 in 4 affected patients.
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When patients at hospitals in Seton Healthcare Network are ready for discharge and don't have funding for post-discharge services, the hospital may pay nursing homes to provide care until their Medicaid eligibility is determined or place patients in assisted living facilities temporarily until they fully recover.
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A multipronged approach has helped the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics find funding for indigent patients, cut the length of stay for patients who are medically able to be discharged, and reduced the number of nonemergent visits to the emergency department (ED).
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For the last two years, the initiative saved the hospital $500,000 annually in decreased utilization and identifying funding sources for the patients, according to Pat Beal, LCSW, outpatient case management supervisor for Seton Healthcare network and Seton Northwest operations manager.
