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Good ED/ICU networks are becoming more important as more rural hospitals close due to lack of funding, says Janet Williams, MD, FACEP, director of the Center for Rural Emergency Medicine and Professor of Emergency Medicine at West Virginia University in Morgantown.
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Advancing technology continues to reshape the way care management is practiced in the ICU and elsewhere, but early experience shows that technology is no guarantee for physician buy-in at the front end, much less patient compliance at the back end.
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Influenza Vaccination and Reduction in Hospitalizations; Screening Men
for Prostate and Colorectal Cancer; Weight Loss in CHF and Treatment
with ACE-I; Impaired Fasting Glucose vs Impaired Glucose Tolerance;
Risk Stratification in Long-QT Syndrome; EBCT, Motivation, Behavioral
Change, and Cardiovascular Risk Profile
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This review will provide an overview of SARS for the primary care physician, including epidemiology, etiology, review of the clinical and laboratory features as well as diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of SARS.
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The Women's Health Initiatives was halted a year ago, but fallout
from this landmark study continues. The study was designed to identify
the risks or benefits of estrogen plus progesterone vs placebo in
healthy postmenopausal women.
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While many folks are having trouble finding work, many hospitals are having trouble finding employees. But while it might seem like a simple task to take out-of-work folks and slot them into jobs at hospitals, it isnt that simple. Or at least, it isnt at most facilities. But at Exempla HealthCare in Colorado, a welfare-to-work program called WorkStart has paid off in spades for the system.
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In science fiction, there is an oft-repeated theme of machines rising up and taking the place of humans, leading to a battle pitting technology against life. But ask hospital executives and even frontline health care workers what technology could mean to them in the future and most will respond positively. The potential for increased efficiency, less paperwork, and more time for direct patient care could only be appealing to them.
