Medical Practice

Magazine articles on medical practice and technical issues of treatment.

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Managed Care October 2007	Compensation Monitor How primary care doctors are paid affects quality in Medicaid MCOs.
Managed Care October 2007 Thomas Morrow	Artificial Disc Now Available, But is it Better Than Other Therapies? The Prestige Cervical Disc system can replace a single disc from C3 to C7 and gives people with cervical disc disease another viable treatment option.
Reason November 2007 Roger Koppl	Breaking Up the Forensics Monopoly America's forensics system, the part of our criminal justice system responsible for scientific examinations of crime-scene evidence like fingerprints and DNA, is rife with errors. Here are eight ways to fix the broken system.
American Journal of Nursing November 2007	The NFP Model: The Evidence of the Evidence A lack of standardization among home visitation programs hinders an evaluation of the success of a program.
American Journal of Nursing November 2007 Dawley, Loch & Bindrich	The Nurse -- Family Partnership An overview of an evidence-based home visitation program for at-risk, first-time mothers and their children.
American Journal of Nursing November 2007 Nancy A. Stotts	How to Try This: Predicting Pressure Ulcer Risk An assessment tool to predict the risk of pressure ulcers in the elderly.
American Journal of Nursing November 2007 Ann Hendrich	How to Try This: Predicting Patient Falls Assess a hospitalized patients risk of falling using this screening tool.
Nursing November 2007 Matthews, Miller & Mott	Getting Ahead of Acute Meningitis & Encephalitis Learn how to distinguish between these common central nervous system infections and respond appropriately.
Information Today October 29, 2007	Legislative Update on NIH Public Access Policy Under a mandatory policy, NIH-funded researchers will be required to deposit copies of eligible manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine's online database, PubMed Central.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Morgen E. Peck	Deep-Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Disease Increase Impulsive Decision Making Electronic brain implants make it harder to decide what's better than good.
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