Topic: Medicare
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Public measures of hospital quality may not reflect care for the sickest patients -- or even the majority of patients in some instances -- suggests a new study of heart attack cases.As a result, the researchers caution ...
Medicare publicly reports each hospital's death and readmission rates for patients with several conditions. At the recent American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, two studies of patients with heart failure provided a striking negative verdict on remote monitoring. First, a study from ...
Medicare publicly reports each hospital's death and readmission rates for patients with several conditions. At the recent American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, two studies of patients with heart failure provided a striking negative verdict on remote monitoring. First, a study from ...
Confirm your Subscription | Having trouble viewing this e-mail click here | To unsubscribe click here. November 4, 2010 The selective vitamin D receptor activator paricalcitol can reduce albuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes already being treated with renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors, ...
I would like to begin with a short introduction. A cardiologist at one point could collect, for example $30,000 for a procedure.Medicare performed a study using thier own paid doctors. These doctors, paid directly by Medicare, determine that half of that procedure ...
But that's just what Izabella Gioiosa, a Forest Hills (N.Y.) Hospital nurse, recently found herself doing as part of the facility's new heart failure patient follow-up program. Forest Hills launched its program, which aims to keep heart failure patients from bouncing back ...
CHICAGO, July 26, 2010 ?Medicare beneficiaries in some parts of the United States appear more likely to receive carotid endarterectomy, a surgical procedure to clear blockages in the artery supplying blood to the head, whereas those in other regions more often receive ...
There are significant regional variations in the odds of Medicare beneficiaries undergoing a carotid revascularization procedure, according to research published in the July 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.. Manesh R. Patel, M.D., of the Duke University School of Medicine ...
7/14/2010 Print E-mail When patients are readmitted within 30 days of a hospital stay, it is generally considered a sign of poor quality care and wasteful spending on the hospital's part. The new information shows how often Medicare patients with heart failure ...
JAMA. Patients admitted to hospitals for heart failure in 2006 fared better in-hospital than did those in 1993, but were discharged more often to nursing homes, and readmitted more frequently, according to researchers from the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Mara??n in Madrid, ...
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