Treating pain without fear
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Federal regulators are less suspicious of doctors who prescribe opioids for patients, but barriers to
adequate treatment remain. (Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine)
Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine - July 4, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: journals
Elements of malpractice: duty comes first
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Once a patient requests medical services—and you agree to supply those
services—you might be liable if something goes awry. (Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine)
Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine - July 4, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: journals
Doctors hurt doctors, too
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The author's quest to find out what went wrong with a "routine' needle biopsy was met by a
stony wall of silence. (Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine)
Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine - July 4, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: journals
Dangerous patients in the exam room
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After a drug-seeking patient assaulted him, the author truly understood how vulnerable some doctors
are. (Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine)
Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine - July 4, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: journals
Borrowing money in a credit crunch
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It's still possible—with a solid banking relationship, a sharp business plan, and ample
collateral. (Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine)
Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine - July 4, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: journals
Take your staff from good to great
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Important as it is to find the right people, keeping them happy and productive is key to a successful
practice. (Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine)
Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine - July 4, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: journals
The secrets of my successful medical practice
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Small changes can make a big difference. This doctor learned to be a better
physician—from his mistakes. (Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine)
Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine - July 4, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: journals
Keys to a successful ehr rollout
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From timetables to training, implementing a new system is more about people than
computers. (Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine)
Source: Medical Economics - Medical Economics magazine - July 4, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: journals
Active living research - investigating policies and environments to support active communities
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Active Living Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that supports research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, decreasing sedentary behaviors and preventing obesity among children and adolescents. The program places special emphasis on strategies with the potential to reach racial/ethnic populations and children living in low-income communities who are at highest risk for obesity. Grants funded under this call for proposals (CFP) are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 20...
Source: RWJF - Open Calls For Proposals - July 3, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: organizations
Ahip adopts guidelines for developing patient-centered medical homes
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America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade group for health insurers, adopted new principles designed to guide the development of patient-centered medical homes, Modern Healthcare reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - July 3, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Minnesota hospitals embrace healing design concepts
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Minnesota hospitals are incorporating architecture and other amenities grounded in healing design principles in an effort to improve the patient experience, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - July 3, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Michigan hospitals step up recruitment, retention efforts
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As construction on several new Detroit-area hospitals draws to a close, area providers are ramping up their efforts to recruit and retain nursing talent, Crain's Detroit Business reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - July 3, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Study exposes flaws in hospital use of barcode technology
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A study published online Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association suggests that flaws in the design, implementation and workflow integration of barcoded medication administration systems encourage clinician workarounds that may increase the likelihood of errors, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - July 3, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Wisconsin hospital association introduces uniform color-coded patient wristbands
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Noting the potential for confusion when hospitals use different color-coding systems to communicate important information about patients, the Wisconsin Hospital Association is asking members across the state to adopt uniform standards for color-coded patient wristbands, the Wausau Daily Herald reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - July 3, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Jun 26, 2008 - aarp, rwjf, labor department seek solutions to nursing and nurse faculty shortage
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State teams convene to address nurse education capacity. (Source: RWJF - News Releases)
Source: RWJF - News Releases - July 3, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: organizations
The relationship between state capacity measures and allocations to children and youth with special needs within the mch services block grant
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Conclusions Measures of state economic, political and health services capacity do not demonstrate consistent and significant associations
with the Title V capacity measures that we explored. States with greater economic capacity appear to devote more financial
resources to Title V. Our finding that per capita CSHCN expenditures are negatively associated with the percentage of CSHCN
in the state suggests that there is an upper limit on what states devote to CSHCN. Our current understanding of what state
factors influence Title V capacity remains limited.
Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s10995-008-0378-5Author...
Source: Maternal and Child Health Journal - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Maternal and Child Health Journal Source Type: journals
Life satisfaction in a sample of empty-nest elderly: a survey in the rural area of a mountainous county in china
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Conclusions The empty-nest elderly were likely to have mental health problems and to feel unsatisfied with their life. These findings
also emphasize the importance of mental health as the determinant of life satisfaction among the empty-nest elderly.
Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11136-008-9370-1Authors
Li-Juan Liu, The Second Military Medical University The Training Department 800 Xiangyin Road Shanghai 200433 People’s Republic of ChinaQiang Guo, The Second Military Medical University The Training Department 800 Xiangyin Road Shanghai 200433 People’s Republic of China
Journal Qua...
Source: Quality of Life Research - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Quality of Life Research Source Type: journals
Ama releases toolkit to spur assessments of, improvements to physician-patient communication
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The American Medical Association (AMA) has launched a toolkit designed to help health care providers assess physician-patient communication, particularly for individuals with limited English proficiency or low health literacy, AMNews reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Report explores ways to boost capacity at u.s. nursing schools
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AARP Foundation and U.S. Department of Labor have released a white paper outlining solutions for increasing capacity at the nation's nursing schools, AHA News Now reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Physicians not taking steps to ensure patient comprehension of medical instructions, study finds
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A study published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine suggests that physicians frequently fail to ensure that patients understand medical instructions, United Press International reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Book review: epidemiology: concepts and methods by william a oleckno. published by waveland press inc, illinois 2008. paperback 649pp. isbn 1 57766 522 8. price $51.95
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Bahl, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Book review: waking up to the morning-after pill: how parents are being undermined by the promotion of emergency hormonal birth control to under-16s, by norman wells and helena hayward. published by family education trust, twickenham, 2007. paperback 73pp. price {pound}6.00. isbn 0 906229 19 7
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Stanwell-Smith, R. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Book review: the naked consultation by liz moulton. published by radcliffe publishing ltd, oxford, 2007. paperback 177pp, isbn 185775 893 5. price {pound}18.95
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Barry, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Book review: adolescence and health, edited by john coleman, leo b hendry and marion kloep. published by john wiley and sons ltd, chichester, 2007. paperback 248pp. isbn 978 0470 09207 1, price {pound}20.99
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Hodge, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Understanding neonatal jaundice: uk practice and international profile
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Over the last 25 years there have been considerable advances in the treatment and technologies used in the care of newborn infants. Most of these advances are related to the care of the premature infants and there have been few changes in the management of conditions commonly seen in term infants.Neonatal jaundice is one of the commonest neonatal disorders and has been recognized since early history. Early neonatal jaundice is usually caused by the physiological destruction of red blood cells in the infant and its importance lies in the ability of the bilirubin pigment so pro...
Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Shortland, D. B, Hussey, M., Dey Chowdhury, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Risk-based regulatory system and its effective use in health and social care
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The regulatory landscape of the health and adult social care system in England is constantly changing. The establishment of a new regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), will help to integrate the regulation of the health and adult social care sector together and strengthen the safety and quality assurance for patients and service users. It will have the challenge of regulating a much bigger sector and wider variety of organizations than its predecessor bodies — i.e. Healthcare Commission, Commission for Social Care Inspection and Mental Health Act Commission. An effective and efficient regulatory approach is n...
Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Adil, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Implementation of dietary and general lifestyle advice among women with polycystic ovarian syndrome
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Conclusion: In spite of the fact that weight loss and weight maintenance are absolutely vital in the treatment of PCOS, our study has shown that the support given to PCOS patients to help reduce and control their weight is inadequate and needs to be improved. (Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health)
Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Humphreys, L., Costarelli, V. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Public health and web 2.0
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This article examines the nature and role of Web 2.0 resources and their impact on health information made available though the internet. The transition of the Web from version one to Web 2.0 is described and the main features of the new Web examined. Two characteristic Web 2.0 resources are explored and the implications for the public and practitioners examined. First, what are known as `user reviews' or `user testimonials', which allow people to comment on the health services delivered to them, are described. Second, new mapping applications that take advantage of the interactive potential of Web 2.0 and provide tools to...
Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Hardey, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Health information: a case of saturation or 57 channels and nothing on?
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The claim is made by many that we have reached a point where we are exposed to too much information. This potential phenomenon is particularly prominent in the health field where there is a suggestion that the volume of available information has increased significantly and more importantly that such volume has had detrimental effects on both the overall quality of such information and the ability of people to process and use it. This paper explores the nature and validity of these claims.Within the context of the notion of an `information society', it outlines a range of ...
Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Whitelaw, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Understanding mental distress in film and media: a new agenda?
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This paper surveys some recent developments in media criticism and recent developments in film and media representations of mental distress. Focusing on a representations drawn from various forms of media, the paper argues that media and film images of mental distress are in many cases `positive' and sympathetic, although they can also contain sexist, racist and other problematic elements that are not commonly identified by anti-stigma campaigners. It also suggests that while still valid in many ways, existing anti-stigma criticism tends to focus on a rather undiffere...
Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Harper, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Sun safety: what are the health messages?
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Solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is a human carcinogen. The UK and the worldwide incidence of cutaneous (skin) melanoma are rising. It is now the second most common cancer in 15-34 year-olds in the UK, increasing by 49% in 1991—2000. The UK government prioritized skin cancer in 1992 in their public health strategy The Health of the Nation, and set the target for reducing the yearly rise in skin cancer incidence by 2005. In 1998 in the Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation strategy, targets were set to reduce the death rate from cancer, including skin cancer, by 20% ...
Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Hedges, T., Scriven, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
`those terrible issues'
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Beyer, J. C Tags: Article Source Type: journals
The disorder of health information
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Wilkes, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
The educational preparation of student nurses as communicators of health and wellbeing
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Holt, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Mental pictures: citizen or consumer?
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Rutherford, D. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Get out and run! -- just don't get caught!
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Yianni, C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Guest editorial
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: King, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Media maladies
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Marketing health, influencing behaviour
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Donaldson, C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
In practice
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: McKenzie, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Uk news: one in five refuse hpv vaccine
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Germany: drink up, smoking down
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: journals
England: superbug battle stalls
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: journals
China: fatal virus will not spoil games
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Australia: kids' lunch box ban
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Usa: prospect is bleak for aids vaccine
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Global health news: that's why mum's gone to iceland
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Canada: heart disease rates set to rise
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: journals
Editorial: communicating health messages
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Source: The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health - July 2, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: journals
State and federal approaches to health reform: what works for the working poor?
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We compare and contrast the labor market and distributional impact of three common approaches to state and federal health insurance expansion: public insurance expansions, refundable tax credits for low income people, and employer and individual mandates. We draw on existing estimates from the literature and individual-level data on the non-institutionalized population aged 64 and younger from the 2005 Current Population Survey to estimate how each approach affects (1) the number of people insured; (2) private and public health spending; (3) employment and wages; and (4) the distribution of subsidies across families based ...
Source: Forum for Health Economics and Policy - July 1, 2008 Category: Health Management Source Type: journals
