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A Medicare demonstration project at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City provides care coordination to help high-cost, fee-for-service beneficiaries comply with their medical treatment plan and access the community services they need to manage their chronic conditions.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island's case management department consistently scores in the 90th percentile on satisfaction surveys sent to members who have completed a case management program.
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Choosing February as American Heart Month is not coincidental. With Valentine's Day in February, it is a month in which people are heart-centric, in the spirit of honoring the emotional needs of the heart.
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Antibiotic-resistant infections are not new to the health care setting, but headlines throughout the country have increased public awareness of the potential risk of infection.
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Improving the health of patients in your hospital is a large enough challenge, but imagine taking on the well-being of an entire city.
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Many efforts are underway to develop reliable and effective antiplatelet agents that have a minimal risk for bleeding.
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The atrial fibrillation clopidogrel trial with Irbesartan for Prevention of Vascular Events (ACTIVE W) is a noninferiority trial comparing anticoagulation with warfarin to therapy with aspirin plus clopidogrel for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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The triggers of ventricular arrhythmia (tova Study) was a multicenter, prospective, cohort study that examined lifestyle and psychological triggers that might result in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) shocks for ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF).
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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is an exceedingly common manifestation of atherosclerosis. Its presence heralds an increased risk for death from coronary artery disease (CAD) and stroke, yet it continues to go unrecognized in a large proportion of patients.
