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Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, but the prevalence of diabetic complications are race-specific, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience if patients are invited to read their doctors' office notes.Objective: To evaluate the effect on doctors and patients of facilitating patient access to visit notes over secure Internet portals.…
This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.
Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adverse drug events caused by an incomplete understanding of changes in complex drug regimens can be an important factor contributing to readmission rates. This paper describes the roles and…
Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducted with the aim to better understand how a nursing palliative approach influences quality outcomes at end-of-life. Nurses' ways of being that brought connection and comfort at end-of-life included…
Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and techniques and research on what works, as well as continuously training new workers and meeting the needs of sicker patients. While hospitals are at different points on their quality path, all…
An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health care providers are scrambling to find their way in the fast-paced world of technology, and the federal government is making billions of dollars available to help them do it. But while cost…
The AHA and the Association of American Medical Colleges Medicare Payment Bundling: Insights from Claims Data and Policy Implications commissioned Dobson DaVanzo & Associates, LLC to conduct a series of quantitative analyses of different episode-based payment bundles.
Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--what does it mean to improve the health of a population- was a reasonable request given the system's vision of making its communities 'the healthiest in America.' And the board believed that…