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The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services' Pay For Performance Demonstration Project will test and identify data collection and measurement, and financial incentive approaches for a home health pay for performance system but it may emphasize some legal and ethical issues as well.
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The hospice mission shares many of the goals and features of the mission of the Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), and so for hospices with enough resources, initiating a PACE program is a natural fit.
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The first hospice to implement services under Medicare/Medicaid's Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) has made the philosophical skip to expanding its care to the frail and elderly who are not hospice-eligible.
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The rate of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in dialysis patients is higher than for any other known patient population and is 100 times higher than for the general population, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Often, the emergency department (ED) evaluation of a painful knee is a quick x-ray followed by discharge with the limb placed a knee immobilizer, the patient walking with crutches, a prescription for analgesics, and a referral to see an orthopedist next week.
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The prognosis for CML blast crises remains poor even with imatinib therapy. Dasatinib is an oral multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor of BCR/ABL and Src with clinical activity against imatinib-resistant CML.
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Dose-dense CHOP chemotherapy was compared with standard CHOP for patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma. For young patients with low-intermediate risk disease there was improvement in response rate and survival.
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Torcetrapib, a cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor, has been in development by Pfizer for nearly 15 years.
