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The push for chlamydia screening has been intensified, with the Washington, DC-based American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) issuing a practice policy statement calling for the annual screening of all sexually active women 25 years of age or younger, as well as sexually active women with other risk factors.
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Expect more questions from patients about hormone therapy (HT) with the publication of three reports from the Womens Health Initiative (WHI), the largest randomized controlled trial conducted to date on the drug therapy.
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A 13-year-old female sits in your exam room. On her initial gynecologic exam at age 12, she did not indicate that she was sexually active.
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How did this happen? asks the woman sitting in your office as you share the news from the pregnancy test. I was using birth control.
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At the end of May, President Bush signed into law the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, which is sweeping legislation designed to provide relief for HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean and authorizing funding of up to $15 billion over five years.
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Frequent menstruation is a relatively new biologic state that has emerged as societies have evolved from hunting and gathering to industrialization.
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When the administration at Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins, WV, redesigned its case management department, improving reimbursement for emergency department (ED) patients and same-day-surgery patients was a major goal.
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Before the case management staff at Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins, WV, went live with its newly designed case management plan, staff worked hard to sell the new arrangement to hospital staff and attending physicians.
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Case managers are in an excellent position to help their hospitals balance both the clinical and the financial sides of patient care, asserts Teresa C. Fugate, RN, BBA, CPHQ, CCM.
