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A catastrophic case that involves a lot of coordination of resources, a lot of care planning, and a large allocation of financial resources that may or may not cause the patient to reach his or her maximum lifetime benefit should be a flag to the case manager to find out who may be sharing the risk.
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A patient whose chronic illness you are managing is not likely to tell you that he or she is depressed.
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Consumers drug-buying behavior may be based on how much they know about their personal health care coverage, a Harris Interactive survey reveals.
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Sixty percent of physicians responding to a survey by the Pennsylvania Medical Society expressed frustration with eroding patient-doctor relationships and blame lack of time for the problem.
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A comprehensive analysis of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its impact on disease management has concluded that the new privacy regulations will not hamper disease management programs, according to the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA).
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Stroke Reduction in Older Hypertensives with Abnormal Nocturnal Blood
Pressure Dipping; Primary Prevention of Hypertension; Effect of
Aggressive Screening and Treatment on Prostate Cancer Mortality;
Diuretics, Mortality, and Nonrecovery of Renal Function in Acute Renal
Failure; Nut and Peanut Butter Consumption and Risk of DM-2 in Women;
Optimal Diets for Prevention of CHD
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FDA Issues Black Box Warning Based on WHI Study; ALLHAT: Thiazide for Hypertension Treatment; Candesartan Effective Against Migraines; Cough! No Cold Relief from Echinacea; COX-2 Inhibitors and GI Benefits Could Be Overrated; FDA Actions
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The following summaries represent a selection of papers from among those presented at the 42nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held September 27-30, 2002, in San Diego and the 40th annual meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), held October 24-27, 2002, in Chicago. Antiretroviral therapy is not included.
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At Griffin Hospital, patients sometimes point out to the staff that they were scheduled for a test but didnt have it. Some comb their patient record and suggest changes.
