Primary Care Reports – August 1, 2006

August 1, 2006

• What the PCP Should Know about National Quality Initiatives—For the Hospital and the Office

  "As many as 98,000 deaths per year are due to errors in hospital care.1" ... "A RAND Health study found that only 54.9% of patients received recommended care.2"

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• Pharmacology Watch

  Do long-acting beta agonist inhalers increase the severity of asthma? Yes, according to the results from a large meta-analysis recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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• Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement

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