MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'comparing'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:34:53 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5057831&cid=t_355744_129_f&fid=27216&url=http%3A%2F%2Flifewithadhd.com%2Fadhd-in-the-classroom%2Fadhd-%25e2%2580%2593-comparing-men-to-women-symptoms-and-more.php ADHD is short for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder formally known as ADD. This mental health disorder  is rapidly becoming the single most diagnosed mental health concern in the United States. For undetermined reason certain states have high rates of diagnosed cases (Alabama) with other states like Colorado being very low. But while there are obvious geographic differences there are also differences in how this mental health concern presents itself in men and women. Additionally, since there has been limited research dissecting ADHD in women the diagnostic criteria is male leaning, leaving many women desperately needing help out in the cold. In this article I pass on some of my personal experiences with attention deficit disorder to determining a few differences in behavior as wel... Life With ADHD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5057831 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5057831 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4265735&cid=t_355744_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fleading-healthcare-systems-collaborate-on-best-practices-for-common-conditions%2F2010.12.17 Six of the nation’s leading healthcare systems will collaborate on outcomes, quality, and costs across eight common conditions or procedures in an effort to share best practices and reduce costs with the entire healthcare system. Cleveland Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Denver Health, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, and Mayo Clinic will to share data among their 10 million patients with The Dartmouth Institute, which will analyze the data and report back to the collaborative and the rest of the country, according to a press release. The collaborative will focus on eight conditions and treatments for which costs have been increasing rapidly and for which there are wide variations in quality and outcomes across the country. The first three conditions to be studies are ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4265735 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:00:00 +0100 4265735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4200565&cid=t_355744_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fa-taste-of-canadian-healthcare-on-chicago%25e2%2580%2599s-south-side%2F2010.11.24 This past September, a group of medical residents at my institution began seeing primary care patients at a free clinic down the street from our tertiary academic medical center (“hospital clinic”). Far from my expectations, the care we are able to provide at our free clinic is in many ways better than our hospital clinic. Somewhat paradoxically, the experience has given me a taste of what the practice of medicine is like in single-payer healthcare systems like Canada’s. When I volunteered to start seeing patients at a nearby free clinic, I had little idea what I was signing up for. The term “free clinic” conjured up memories as a medical student in East Baltimore tending to patients at a local homeless shelter with severe frostbite or at a student-run clinic rummaging through th... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4200565 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:00:41 +0100 4200565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2591442&cid=t_355744_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fhospital-care-varies-across-nation%2F In this study, researchers reviewed three years of experience (July 2005 to June 2008) of Medicare fee-for-service patients with heart failure and heart attack at almost 5,000 hospitals across the nation. Examining the records of nearly 600,000 heart attack admissions and more than 1 million heart failure admissions, they calculated the 30-day death and readmission rates and found: The average 30-day death rate for heart attack was 16.6 percent and the average rate of heart attack readmission was 19.9 percent. The average 30-day death rate for heart failure was 11.1 percent and 24.4 percent for readmission.   Heart failure death rate ranged from 6.6 percent to 19.8 percent. Readmission for heart attack ranged from 15.3 percent to 29.4 percent. Readmission for heart failure ranged from 1... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2591442 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:14:02 +0100 2591442 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1223756&cid=t_355744_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F11%2Fwapo-good-huffpo-bad%2F It’s enough to make your head spin, these two posts I read one after the other with my morning swear words. Liberal bastion Thorn in my side Huffington is screaming for forced drugging and involuntary commitment (Britney, et alia) — It’s outrageous that she was released from the hospital …all the experts say she [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1223756 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:43:04 +0100 1223756