Search results for "health care costs"
Long-term oral bisphosphonates may double esophageal cancer risk
Long-term oral bisphosphonates may double esophageal cancer riskNew reports signal health care costs for this decade
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/09/14/1.htm
14 Sep 2010
House calls becoming a viable practice model
Think of it as the patient-centered medical home's ultimate evolution##mdash;care inside the patient's own home. More doctors are making house calls, either to patients who don't travel easily, or to improve the quality of care they could deliver in an office.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/10/house.htm
1 Oct 2010
Would Congress cut funding for popular health care programs?
A serious bi-partisan discussion is needed to make serious decisions about health care reform.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/11/washington.htm
1 Nov 2010
Medical home model might be health care's next great change
The patient-centered medical home might be health care next transformational innovation, one that will allow primary care to survive and thrive.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/01/presidents.htm
1 Jan 2011
How many are too many for CT scans?
As many as one-third of the 70 million imaging tests ordered during the year may not be needed. Experts attempt to determine whether repeated radiation scanning doses could prove potentially yet unintentionally harmful.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/02/CT.htm
1 Feb 2011
‘Rationing’ charge prevents real discourse on health care costs
Critics have unfairly attacked health care reform. But proponents haven't been straightforward about its costs. The truth involves how resources get allocated.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/03/washington.htm
1 Mar 2011
Central line infections in ICUs fell 58% between 2001 and 2009
Endocrine Society launches diabetes e-learning initiative
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/03/08/7.htm
8 Mar 2011
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about cost-cutting measures.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/04/letters.htm
1 Apr 2011
Is this the end of Medicare and Medicaid as we know them?
President Obama and House Republicans have issued starkly different proposals on the future of Medicare and Medicaid.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/06/washington.htm
1 Jun 2011
Physicians do too many Pap tests
Most physicians continue to recommend annual cervical cancer screening, despite guidelines recommending that low-risk women be tested less frequently.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/23/2.htm
23 Aug 2011