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The challenges faced by hospice managers when hiring nurse practitioners are many of the same challenges faced when hiring hospice nurses.
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Compliance with Goal 2 of the National Patient Safety Goals, which calls for the improvement of effective communications among caregivers, dropped to 72% in 2006 from 76.8% in 2005.
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Several states have taken advantage of Medicare's SNP option to negotiate contracts with the plans to include Medicaid benefits for dually eligible individuals enrolled in such plans.
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Time is running out for hospices to prepare for the new Medicare conditions of participation (COPs), and experts say the best strategy is to make quality improvement changes now and not wait until sometime in 2008 when it will become the law.
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Featured in this issue is a story about how one hospice organization has made palliative care a big part of its mission and business.
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Reproductive and sexual functioning following treatment for malignant ovarian germ cell tumors (GCTs) has been sparsely studied since the introduction conservative surgery and chemotherapy.
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A questionnaire was administered to 713 consecutive patients referred to a pelvic pain clinic. In addition to the high frequency of a history of sexual and/or physical abuse, patients with a history of such trauma were found to have worse daily physical functioning due to poor health, more surgery, more time in bed, more medical symptoms, and more dysfunction due to pain.
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The author has systematically reviewed the literature between 1949 and 2005, searching for research related to adenomyosis as well as the diagnosis thereof. Although superior to transabdominal sonography, the transvaginal route has a sensitivity of only 50-87%.
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The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Coronary-Artery Calcium Study (WHI-CACS) was an ancillary study of estrogen-only participants in 28 of the 40 WHI centers.
