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Quality and utilization are going to be inextricably linked as the health care industry moves forward with the health care reform legislation.
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Media already are pegging him for the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. If in fact President Obama nominates Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to that position, what would it mean for the health care industry?
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When your board calls for an improvement initiative, it carries some weight.
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Frustrated patients, core measures that require timely intervention, and optimizing house beds. Those are the issues Bay Medical Center in Panama City, FL, decided it was going to deal when it hired a consultant in 2008.
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It was a "room of horrors" replete with blood (corn syrup plus food coloring) and spiderwebs.
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The traditional culinary and medicinal spice turmeric (curcuma longa) is sometimes referred to as the "golden spice of life." Native to South and Southeast Asia, this plant is now widely cultivated.
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Although depression is a serious condition that needs to be treated, many women are reluctant to take antidepressant medications during pregnancy. Depression during pregnancy tends to be underdiagnosed and undertreated.
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This unique meta-analysis of antidepressant drug therapy for depression focused on randomized, placebo-controlled trials of at least 6 weeks' duration and included subjects with a wide range of symptomatology, from mild to very severe.
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A meta-analysis of 40 randomized controlled trials found evidence of reduced anxiety among patients with chronic illnesses who exercised regularly.
