-
HIV patients who are better informed, have some social support, and who are not concerned about medication side effects have a higher self-reported adherence, a new study shows.
-
New research finds that HIV-infected veterans are significantly more likely to have a non-AIDS-defining malignancy (non-ADM) than are HIV-negative veterans.1
-
Nelfinavir mesylate (Viracept) is a protease inhibitor antiretroviral medicine used in combination with other anti-HIV medications to treat infection with HIV. It is approved for use in adults and in children older than 2 years of age who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), the virus that causes AIDS.
-
-
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Advisory Panel on ambulatory payment classification (APC) groups has recommended that CMS not finalize the proposal to implement observation packaging for 2008, as CMS had originally proposed.
-
In findings that at first glance may seem puzzling, the 2007 ED Pulse Report patient satisfaction survey by Press Ganey Associates indicated that while ED wait times continue to increase, so does patient satisfaction.
-
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) has responded to a request for an advisory opinion on the on-call coverage and uncompensated care arrangement established by an unnamed not-for-profit medical center.
-
The advisory opinion recently issue by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) in response to a hospital with an existing on-call coverage payment arrangement "has played into the hands of on-call specialists," ...
-
Searching for various forms needed for patients being admitted from the ED was a constant frustration for nurses at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
-
In a Sept. 5, 2007, revision of its accreditation participation requirement for concerns about hospital safety and quality of care, The Joint Commission specifically stated that physicians and medical staff members who have such concerns "may report those concerns with the understanding that retaliatory disciplinary action is prohibited."
