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An African-American patient is more likely to endure disease-related pain than his or her white counterpart. Experts in end-of-life care have noted this fact for years, and now a recent University of Michigan research study has drawn a similar conclusion.
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This issue of Hospital Management Advisor includes coverage of key events and insights from the 18th annual conference of the Alexandria, VA-based National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, held Sept. 7-9 in Phoenix.
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Signs of forward motion for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) in Alexandria, VA, were cited during its recent Management and Leadership Conference.
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Participants at the 18th Management and Leadership Conference of the Alexandria, VA-based National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization said that while they were looking forward to growth and expanded opportunities, they also were looking back at the problem of inconsistent care and concerns about the quality of hospice care.
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The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Hospice Foundation, NHPCOs development arm, are rolling out two new television public service announcements to increase consumer understanding of the special care hospice provides.
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People are either equol producers or nonequol producers, and the clinical benefits of soy isoflavones may be limited to equol producers.
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An electrosurgical bipolar vessel sealer reduces the operating time and blood loss in a series of vaginal hysterectomies.
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Early experience with fetal MMC repair suggests a decreased need for ventriculoperitoneal shunting, arrest, or slowing of progressive ventriculomegaly, and consistent resolution of hindbrain herniation.
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Menstrual irregularities are arguably the mainstay of gynecologic office practice. The differential diagnosis for this common presentation is quite extensive, but a common cause is reduced central hypothalamic GnRH drive due to lifestyle issues.
