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An estimated 182,460 new cases of invasive breast cancer, and approximately 40,930 breast cancer deaths (40,480 women, 450 men), are expected to occur among women in the United States during 2008.
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Mushrooms have a long history as medicinal agents.
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Survey research confirms the intuitive sense that stress is a common problem even among comparatively healthy people.
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Goal: To determine whether a special extract of Crataegus oxycantha (COE) slows the clinical progression of mild-to-moderate heart failure (HF).
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Everyone in the health care field has heard horror stories about patients' needs falling through the cracks when they transition from one level of care to another.
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"We need to do the same thing to empower patients and their families with information so they can be active participants in every transition of care," adds Skinner, a case manager for more than 20 years, principal consultant for Whitwell, TN-based Riverside Healthcare Consulting and a member of the National Transitions of Care Coalition.
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It will be several years before the Centers for Medi-care & Medicaid Services (CMS) will require hospitals to use the Continuity Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE) tool, but hospital case managers can start now to prepare for its implementation and to give CMS feedback on the tool and its use in various settings.
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In its proposed rule for the Outpatient Prospective Payment System, issued July 3, 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continued its efforts to tie reimbursement to quality of services, adding four new outpatient quality measures that hospitals must report on and asking for public comments on an additional 18 measures being considered for future years.
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Faced with an increase in emergency department visits and a rising inpatient census, the chief executive officers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston made ED overcrowding a major quality and safety initiative of the hospital starting in 2006 and took a systemwide approach to addressing the problem.
