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Medicare News
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Hsr.org: Alan M. Zaslavsky, John Z. Ayanian and Lawrence B. Zaborski, VOLUME 47 | NUMBER 3.2 | JUNE 2012. Keywords: Medicare;race;ethnicity;disparities;CAHPS Objective: To assess the validity of race/ethnicity in Medicare databases for studies of racial/ethnic disparities. Data Sources: The 2010 Medicare Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) survey was linked to Medicare enrollment data and local area characteristics […]
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Medicare News
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Beckershospitalreview.com: Written by Elliot Zemel, JD, Fenton Nelson | May 23, 2012. CMS began publicly reporting hospital readmission rates in July 2009. These reports highlight the amount of resources wasted by reimbursing care provided for potentially avoidable readmissions and spurred many proposals to reduce hospital readmissions as part of healthcare reform. According to some estimates, Medicare spends more […]
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Stroke News
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Networking.americanheart.org: 5/24/2012. Heart diseases and stroke, the number 1 and 4 leading causes of death in the United States, kill over 810,000 people every year. Even though death rates have been decreasing, disparities in the rate of decline among subpopulations and resulting disabilities from heart diseases and stroke are still issues to be addressed. Achieving ideal […]
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Diabetes News
Friday, May 25th, 2012
Cdc.gov: May 22, 2012. Healthier lifestyles, better disease management are helping people live longer Death rates for people with diabetes dropped substantially from 1997 to 2006, especially deaths related to heart disease and stroke, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. Deaths from all causes declined […]
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Diabetes News
Friday, May 25th, 2012
Reuters.com: By Amy Norton NEW YORK | Mon May 21, 2012 5:49pm EDT. (Reuters Health) – The percentage of U.S. teenagers with “pre-diabetes” or full-blown type 2 diabetes has more than doubled in recent years — though obesity and other heart risk factors have held steady, government researchers reported Monday. The good news, the researchers say, is that […]
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Diabetes News
Friday, May 25th, 2012
Medcitynews.com | Stephanie Baum | 5.17.12 To identify people with diabetes who underutilize healthcare, you don’t need real-time video hookups or smartphone apps. You just need a lot of data to find the people and a big physical infrastructure to deliver the care. That’s the approach theNational Association of Area Agencies on Aging is proposing to cut the costs […]
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Diabetes News
Friday, May 25th, 2012
From the distribution of pharmacies, trauma centers and emergency rooms to the number of lung, colon and breast cancer patients in major metropolitan areas, “Texas Health Atlas,” published by Texas A&M University Press, provides a geographic perspective on the state’s healthcare system. College Station, TX (PRWEB) May 16, 2012. With almost 200 pages of […]
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Diabetes News
Friday, May 25th, 2012
Position Statement of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Care.diabetesjournals.org: April 19, 2012. S.E. Inzucchi and D.R. Matthews were co-chairs for the Position Statement Writing Group. R.M. Bergenstal, J.B. Buse, A.L. Peters, and R. Wender were the Writing Group for the ADA. M. Diamant, E. Ferrannini, M. […]
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Clinical Trial News
Friday, May 25th, 2012
Bio-itworld.com: By Ann Neuer, May 22, 2012. The tedious process of building an electronic clinical trial is a stubborn bottleneck requiring too much time and too many resources. Those are the topline results of a 2011 survey conducted at two annual meetings—the Drug Information Association (DIA) and the Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM). Cmed Technology, a […]
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Clinical Trial News
Friday, May 25th, 2012
Deccanchronicle.com: Hyderabad, May 20, 2012. The All India Drugs Control Officers Confederation (AIDCOC) has demanded that the Union health ministry suspend the approval granted to 33 drugs for sale in India with immediate effect, as the approval was given without conducting the required clinical trials. The federation claimed that the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) had […]
