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Research investigators need to find a balance between giving enough information about potential subjects in study advertisements to giving too little information and being inundated with unnecessary calls.
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A well-conceived electronic database can make it possible for a quality improvement (QI) department to quickly identify and act on noncompliance trends.
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Tiotropium for uncontrolled asthma, sibutramine pulled from market, incidence and mortality data from WHI, FDA Actions
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Michael P. Starkowski, commissioner of Connecticut's Department of Social Services, says that he sees "opportunities galore" in the health care reform legislation. "We are looking at a number of initiatives that are coming down the pike; some of those have pros and cons," says Mr. Starkowski.
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States may have a fairly accurate picture of the number of individuals who will be newly eligible for Medicaid as of 2014, but getting them to actually enroll may be more difficult than expected.
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A Personal Health Advisor kiosk is being piloted in Georgia's Early County by the Georgia Department of Community Health and Atlanta's National Health Museum. Residents can now access current, personalized health assessments.
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Health care reform "is extraordinarily complex a massive, truly unprecedented social experiment," says Kip Piper, MA, FACHE, president of the Health Results Group in Washington, DC. "As Rick Foster, the CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] Chief Actuary, has correctly pointed out, there really is no way to precisely estimate enrollment."
