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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has produced a publication to help home health agencies prepare for their role in a flu pandemic.
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Case Management Week, Oct. 12-18, is a great opportunity for case managers in all settings to educate their co-workers and the public about what case managers do and the value they bring to the health care system, says Peter Moran, RN, C, BSN, MS, CCM, emergency department case manager at Massachusetts General Hospital and immediate past president of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA).
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Most case management departments need more staff to adequately perform their duties but how do you justify it to a hospital administration that is pinching pennies just to stay afloat in today's tightening health care marketplace?
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Researchers have found a mathematical relationship between two common blood glucose measurements that can help diabetics better monitor their condition.
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 states: "Compared with the many people who consume a dietary pattern with only small amounts of fruits and vegetables, those who eat more generous amounts as part of a healthful diet are likely to have reduced risk of chronic diseases, including stroke and perhaps other cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and cancers in certain sites [oral cavity and pharynx, larynx, lung, esophagus, stomach, and colon-rectum]. Diets rich in foods containing fiber, such as fruits, ... may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease."
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Goal: To explore via fMRI the neuronal pathways potentially involved in acupuncture's effects on salivary flow.
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A study out of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions provides new evidence that fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/CT (PET/CT) is not only more accurate than CT, but it also could save the U.S. health care system $150 million per year if it was used, instead of CT, to identify which patients with relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) stand to benefit from stem cell transplants.
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A new study calls into question some of the recommendations put forth in new guidelines issued by the American Cancer Society, the US Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer, and the American College of Radiology (ACR), regarding CT colonography (CTC),1 but there remains considerable disagreement about the implications of the findings.
