Market Watch: March 27, 2012, 8:00 a.m. EDT. Updated Algorithm Makes Test Simple to Take; Facebook Makes It Easy to Share ALEXANDRIA, VA, Mar 27, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Today marks the 24th annual American Diabetes Association Alert Day(R) and the Association has released a new and improved Diabetes Risk Test to help Americans […]
Care.diabetesjournals.org: William T. Cefalu, MD, March 23, 2012. As a scientific and medical community, we are clearly in a position to take the next logical steps toward the ultimate goal to reduce progression to type 2 diabetes for our populations at risk. One can argue that we no longer need to debate on the incredible increase […]
Tde.sagepub.com: Antoinette M. Schoenthaler, EdD, Brian S. Schwartz, Craig Wood, Walter F. Stewart, March 22, 2012. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of patient and physician psychosocial, sociodemographic, and disease-related factors on diabetes medication adherence. These factors were also examined as effect modifiers of the association between quality of the patient-physician relationship […]
Eurekalert.org: March 20, 2012 An emerging body of research suggests that Alzheimer’s disease may be linked to insulin resistance, constituting a third type of diabetes. This model is based on several observations including an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease for diabetic patients, and reduced insulin levels in the brain tissue of Alzheimer’s disease patients. Though […]
An evaluation of the Piette and Kerr framework Care.diabetesjournals.org: Sri Ram Pentakota, MD, MPH1,2⇓, Mangala Rajan, MBA1, B. Graeme Fincke, MD3,4, Chin-Lin Tseng, DRPH1, Donald R. Miller, PHD3,4, Cindy L. Christiansen, PHD3,4, Eve A. Kerr, MD, MPH5,6 and Leonard M. Pogach, MD, MBA1, March 19,2012. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between diabetes care and types of comorbidity, […]
Darkdaily.com: March 26, 2012. Where hospital margins to be squeezed, that would place hospital laboratories under greater budget constraints Hospitals are honing in on Medicare’s new value-based purchasing program quality metrics in an effort to improve patient care—and earn reimbursement rewards. Clinical laboratory managers and pathologists will want to track implementation of this program, because it is one further step forward […]
The Tampa Tribune: By MARY SHEDDEN, Published: March 25, 2012. TAMPA –Michelle Cyr is still piecing it all together. It was the weekend before Christmas and her vision suddenly went blurry; her side grew numb. The 32-year-old was scared to death. She faced a whirlwind of doctors, tests and questions at St. Petersburg’s Bayfront Medical Center. In less […]
The New England Journal of Medicine: Chapin White, Ph.D., and Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., March 22, 2012. For many years, policymakers have appropriately singled out federal spending on health care — especially Medicare — as the most serious long-term threat to the nation’s fiscal health. Over the past four decades, the average growth in Medicare spending per […]
Commonwealthfund.org: Authors: James D. Reschovsky, Ph.D., Arkadipta Ghosh, Ph.D., Kate Stewart, Ph.D., and Deborah Chollet, Ph.D. March 21, 2012. The health reform law boosted Medicare fees for primary care ambulatory visits by 10 percent for five years starting in 2011. Using a simulation model with real-world parameters, we evaluate the effects of a permanent 10 percent increase […]
Springerlink: Jack Hadley and James D. Reschovsky, March 8, 2012. Abstract We applied instrumental variable analysis to a sample of 388,690 Medicare beneficiaries predicted to be high-cost cases to estimate the effects of medical care use on the relative odds of death or experiencing an avoidable hospitalization in 2006. Contrary to conclusions from the observational geographic variations literature, […]
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