This is a selection of articles from the May 2008 archive. Click here for this month's Health Management headlines.
New Hampshire Hospital Launches Expansion Project to Enhance Patient Care Delivery
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 31, 2008 Source Type: info
Report Highlights Variations in Care Intensity, Questions Benefits of More Aggressive Treatment
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 31, 2008 Source Type: info
Active Living Research/Healthy Eating Research Rapid-Response Grants
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Source: RWJF - Open Calls For Proposals - May 30, 2008 Source Type: info
Report Urges Stronger Support for N.C. Community College Nursing Programs
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 30, 2008 Source Type: info
New Mexico Pilot Project Taps Health IT to Boost Rural Care Delivery
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 30, 2008 Source Type: info
Non-pharmaceutical prevention of hip fractures - a cost-effectiveness analysis of a community-based elderly safety promotion program in Sweden
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Source: Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation - May 30, 2008 Authors: Pia M Johansson, Siv Sadigh, Per E Tillgren and Clas Rehnberg Source Type: info
The influence of health insurance towards accessing essential medicines: The experience from Shenzhen labor health insurance.
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Source: Health Policy - May 30, 2008 Authors: Zhu M, Dib HH, Zhang X, Tang S, Liu L Tags: Health Policy Source Type: info
New Jersey College, Health System Collaborate on BSN Program
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 29, 2008 Source Type: info
Oregon Creates Nursing Education Consortium to Encourage Advanced Training
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 29, 2008 Source Type: info
Hospitals Tap Strategies to Improve Off-Hours Care Quality, Patient Safety
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 29, 2008 Source Type: info
Why it Pays for Hospitals to Initiate a Heart Failure Disease Management Program.
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Source: Disease Management and Health Outcomes - May 29, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (225 K) Source Type: info
Pharmacist-Led Interventions for the Management of Cardiovascular Disease: Opportunities and Obstacles
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Source: Disease Management - May 29, 2008 Authors: McConnell, Karen J.Denham, Anne M.Olson, Kari L. Tags: Leading Article Source Type: info
Reasons for Ineffective Contraceptive Use Antedating Adolescent Pregnancies: Part 2: A Proxy for Childbearing Intentions
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Source: Maternal and Child Health Journal - May 29, 2008 Tags: Maternal and Child Health Journal Source Type: info
Kaiser completes national EMR rollout
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Source: Managed Healthcare Executive Magazine Online - May 29, 2008 Source Type: info
An organizational framework and strategic implementation for system-level change to enhance research-based practice: QUERI Series
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Source: Implementation Science - May 29, 2008 Authors: Cheryl B. Stetler, Lynn McQueen, John Demakis and Brian S. Mittman Source Type: info
June E-news Art
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Source: Managed Healthcare Executive Magazine Online - May 29, 2008 Source Type: info
Reminder! PFHSE Conducting Survey
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Source: Blogged_Arteries - May 28, 2008 Source Type: info
CMS Offers PQRI Tool
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Source: Blogged_Arteries - May 28, 2008 Source Type: info
Appeals Court Puts Foot Down Again
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Source: Blogged_Arteries - May 28, 2008 Source Type: info
The TMB is Listening
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Source: Blogged_Arteries - May 28, 2008 Source Type: info
Pharmacist-Led Interventions for the Management of Cardiovascular Disease: Opportunities and Obstacles.
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Source: Disease Management and Health Outcomes - May 28, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (239 K) Source Type: info
Funding Constraints Stifle Oregon Efforts to Graduate More Nurses
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 28, 2008 Source Type: info
Severity of cardiovascular disease and health-related quality of life in men with prostate cancer: a longitudinal analysis from CaPSURE
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Source: Quality of Life Research - May 28, 2008 Tags: Quality of Life Research Source Type: info
Maternal Recognition and Health Care-Seeking Behavior for Acute Respiratory Infection in Children in a Rural Ecuadorian County
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Source: Maternal and Child Health Journal - May 28, 2008 Tags: Maternal and Child Health Journal Source Type: info
Maryland Hospitals, Retirement Community Partner on Health Information Exchange
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 27, 2008 Source Type: info
Prevalence of overweight, obesity and low weight in the Czech child population up to 18 years of age in the last 50 years
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Source: Journal of Public Health - May 27, 2008 Tags: Journal of Public Health Source Type: info
Drug formulary decision-making in two regional health authorities in British Columbia, Canada.
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Source: Health Policy - May 26, 2008 Authors: Armstrong K, Mitton C, Carleton B, Shoveller J Tags: Health Policy Source Type: info
Money Matters. What do skinny people in big houses have to do with flu shots and bonus pay? Entry 11 - 2008
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Source: Health as Human Capital - Illustrated Research Summaries - May 26, 2008 Authors: Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. Source Type: info
Inpatient Nursing Care Quality: Response to Kane et al, December 2007 Medical Care.
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Source: Medical Care - May 24, 2008 Tags: HTML PDF (58 K) Source Type: info
Medicaid Prior Authorization and Controlled-Release Oxycodone.
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Source: Medical Care - May 24, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (366 K) Source Type: info
Impact of a Medicaid Copayment Policy on Prescription Drug and Health Services Utilization in a Fee-for-Service Medicaid Population.
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Source: Medical Care - May 24, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (312 K) Source Type: info
Beliefs About Depression and Depression Treatment Among Depressed Veterans.
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Source: Medical Care - May 24, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (324 K) Source Type: info
Comparing unidimensional and multidimensional models of benefit finding in breast and prostate cancer
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Source: Quality of Life Research - May 24, 2008 Tags: Quality of Life Research Source Type: info
Measuring breast cancer-specific health-related quality of life in South Asia: psychometric properties of the Sinhala version of the EORTC QLQ-BR23
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Source: Quality of Life Research - May 24, 2008 Tags: Quality of Life Research Source Type: info
An empirical comparison of the WHOQOL-BREF and the SGRQ among patients with COPD
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Source: Quality of Life Research - May 24, 2008 Tags: Quality of Life Research Source Type: info
The disutility of chronic gout
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Source: Quality of Life Research - May 24, 2008 Tags: Quality of Life Research Source Type: info
Why non-urgent patients choose emergency over primary care services? Empirical evidence and managerial implications.
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Source: Health Policy - May 24, 2008 Authors: Lega F, Mengoni A Tags: Health Policy Source Type: info
Policy Levers that Improve Low Income Children's Access to Mental Health Services.
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Source: Medical Care - May 23, 2008 Tags: HTML PDF (118 K) Source Type: info
Strategies that promote high quality care in Indonesia.
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Source: Health Policy - May 23, 2008 Authors: Barber SL, Gertler PJ Tags: Health Policy Source Type: info
Re-evaluating the volume-outcome relationship in hemodialysis patients.
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Source: Health Policy - May 23, 2008 Authors: Eisenstein EL, Sun JL, Anstrom KJ, Stafford JA, Szczech LA, Muhlbaier LH, Mark DB Tags: Health Policy Source Type: info
Formulas for estimating the costs averted by sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention programs in the United States
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Source: Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation - May 23, 2008 Authors: Harrell W Chesson, Dayne Collins and Kathryn Koski Source Type: info
CMS Launches National Ad Campaign for Hospital Compare Web Site
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 22, 2008 Source Type: info
Guidelines for Conducting Pharmaceutical Budget Impact Analyses for Submission to Public Drug Plans in Canada.
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Source: PharmacoEconomics - May 22, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (246 K) Source Type: info
Economic Burden of Heart Failure in the Elderly
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Source: PharmacoEconomics - May 22, 2008 Authors: Liao, LawrenceAllen, Larry A.Whellan, David J. Tags: Leading Article Source Type: info
Guidelines for Conducting Pharmaceutical Budget Impact Analyses for Submission to Public Drug Plans in Canada
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Source: PharmacoEconomics - May 22, 2008 Authors: Marshall, Deborah A.Douglas, Patrick R.Drummond, Michael F.Torrance, George W.MacLeod, StuartManti, OrlandoCheruvu, LokanadhaCorvari, Ron Tags: Review Article Source Type: info
Baby BEEP: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Nurses’ Individualized Social Support for Poor Rural Pregnant Smokers
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Source: Maternal and Child Health Journal - May 22, 2008 Tags: Maternal and Child Health Journal Source Type: info
Wyoming Report Emphasizes Link Between Workplace Satisfaction, Nurse Retention
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 21, 2008 Source Type: info
Industry Report Highlights Strategies to Address ED Overcrowding
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 21, 2008 Source Type: info
West Virginia Taps Policy Expert to Redesign State Health System
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 21, 2008 Source Type: info
Active Living Research and Healthy Eating Research Rapid-Response Grants
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Source: RWJF - Open Calls For Proposals - May 21, 2008 Source Type: info
May 21, 2008 - PROMETHEUS Payment Set to Test New Method of Paying Providers for High-Quality Health Care
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Source: RWJF - News Releases - May 21, 2008 Source Type: info
Corrigendum
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Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Tags: article Source Type: info
What do patients really want? Patients’ preferences for treatment for angina
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Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Tags: article Source Type: info
Health communication: theory and practice
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Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Tags: book review Source Type: info
Health literacy: the need to consider images as well as words
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Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Tags: article Source Type: info
Texas College Partners with Health, Business Organizations to Launch Nursing School
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - May 20, 2008 Source Type: info
Attitudes to mental illness 2008
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Source: CEBMH News | News Front Page - May 20, 2008 Tags: Category Source Type: info
FDA approves aripiprazole (Abilify) for maintenance treatment of paediatric patients with Bipolar I disorder or schizophrenia
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Source: CEBMH News | News Front Page - May 20, 2008 Tags: Category Source Type: info
Results from the ADAPT trial - naproxen and celecoxib not beneficial in prevention of Alzheimer's disease
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Source: CEBMH News | News Front Page - May 20, 2008 Tags: Category Source Type: info
Rising suicide rate triggers prevention job call
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Source: CEBMH News | News Front Page - May 20, 2008 Tags: Category Source Type: info
Ropinirole prolongued release (ReQuip XL) launched in UK
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Source: CEBMH News | News Front Page - May 20, 2008 Tags: Category Source Type: info
Document of the Week: HaCIRIC - creating evidence based outputs that support decision making
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Source: CEBMH News | News Front Page - May 20, 2008 Tags: Category Source Type: info
Mental Health Act: revised code of practice, new secondary legislation and response to consultation
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Source: CEBMH News | News Front Page - May 20, 2008 Tags: Category Source Type: info
Public Health Link: National alcohol harm reduction campaign
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Source: CEBMH News | News Front Page - May 20, 2008 Tags: Category Source Type: info
We need a radical rethink on employment to help mentally ill at work, says Trevor Phillips
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Source: CEBMH News | News Front Page - May 20, 2008 Tags: Category Source Type: info
Recidivism in HIV-Infected Incarcerated Adults: Influence of the Lack of a High School Education
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Source: Journal of Urban Health - May 20, 2008 Tags: Journal of Urban Health Source Type: info
Quality of life valuations of mammography screening
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Source: Quality of Life Research - May 20, 2008 Tags: Quality of Life Research Source Type: info
Trastuzumab with FISH testing a good catch in Sweden
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Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - May 19, 2008 Tags: Research article Source Type: info
OTC status looks likely for Plan B in Canada
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Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - May 19, 2008 Tags: Short communication Source Type: info
281.5 million is being invested by the Spanish ministry of health to make sure that day-to-day research is carried out in hospitals
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Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - May 19, 2008 Tags: Short communication Source Type: info
The majority of GPs in Wales are against free NHS prescriptions.
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Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - May 19, 2008 Tags: Short communication Source Type: info
Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis worthy in Zambian kids with HIV
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Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - May 19, 2008 Tags: Research article Source Type: info
Antitubercular drug resistance in the UK a global issue?
