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...discuss if there is some interval at which a patient should come in. One of the major goals of my work was to bring together consensus in the physician community. But until we come to some consensus, what should patients do? My sense is that they should have a discussion with their physicians about this. First, make sure they're up to date with the preventive health services that everyone in the physician community supports, including mammograms and colon cancer screening. But, then, if their physician tells them, "You don't need to come in next year...
...five clinical areas. The hospitals performing in the top quintile received bonuses of an unspecified amount. In findings released in January, researchers following the project concluded that quality scores in the five measured clinical areas had improved on average 17%, and costs had been reduced $1,000 per patient on average. Researchers estimated that if all American hospitals adopted similar bonus schemes, we could save 70,000 patient lives per year and $4.5 billion in hospital costs annually...
...jury is also still out on whether pay-for-performance plans ultimately benefit patients. On one hand, Shaman says that if doctors' performance measures were standardized and made available, patients could become better consumers of medicine. But, on the other, Neubauer worries that some patients could be denied necessary care under the new regime. "A doctor may just decide not to see a difficult patient who brings down his averages on certain measures," Neubauer says...
...inspiration for the good-natured, endlessly patient Mommy in the syndicated comic Family Circus, Thelma Keane first met her cartoonist husband Bil Keane during World War II while the American artist was stationed in her native Australia. After they married and returned to the U.S., Thelma managed all her husband's business affairs throughout his career. She is immortalized in Bil's work--which gets an assist from their son, Jeff Keane, and now appears in some 1,500 newspapers...
...national conference three years ago, National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni deplored the nation’s efforts in translational science, the process of using basic scientific research to improve patient care. Later that year, Zerhouni announced a major NIH-led initiative to address the problems in translational science, a push that paid off for Harvard this week when the University landed a major grant to fund its efforts in the area, according to a Harvard Medical School spokesman...