Medical Practice

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Managed Care June 2007	Docs Don't Exploit Electronic Prescribing While physicians were positive about the basic features of e-prescribing, products often lacked advanced features, or if they had them, physicians often did not use them because of implementation hurdles or their perceptions that the features did not add value.
Managed Care June 2007	Nations Rated On Health Care Despite having the costliest health care system in the world, the United States ranks last compared with five other affluent countries on measures of quality, access, efficiency, equity, and outcomes, according to a survey analysis.
Managed Care June 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Rebates for Anti-Anemia Drugs Draw Response From FDA, CMS Overusing erythropoiesis-stimulating agents to collect rebates can be really bad for the patient. Ripping off taxpayers and private payers is another concern.
Managed Care June 2007	Which Insurer is Best at Paying Docs? Prompt and accurate payment by insurers is important to physicians. Here are the best and the worst insurers at paying.
Managed Care June 2007	Drug Interactions Plague Elderly Cancer Patients Adverse drug reaction increases six-fold from the second decade to the eighth decade of life, from 10 adverse events per 10,000 persons to 60 per 10,000. This is especially important to oncology patients.
Managed Care June 2007 Thomas Morrow	Dendritic Cell Vaccine Hits FDA Roadblock Questions about study design and analysis prompted the FDA to postpone action on Provenge, a treatment for advanced prostate cancer.
American Journal of Nursing June 2007 Baugh et al.	Wounds in Surgical Patients Who Are Obese Surgery, whether bariatric or not, puts this population at risk. Review the basics of prevention and care.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2007 Dinh Nguyen	Clinical Trials Under Scrutiny Over the last few years, there has been a growing number of instances of misconduct in clinical research.
Managed Care May 2007 Rachel M. Renshaw	Keys to Diabetes Control? Patience, Persistence, and Perseverance Careful attention to a comprehensive treatment plan could forestall or prevent the need to add drugs and costs to a patient's regimen.
Managed Care May 2007 Jill Karpel et al.	The Appropriate Omalizumab Patient Management of the uncontrolled asthma patient and case examples.
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