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Study: Lack of insurance plays role in mortality
Here's a study result that should add more fuel to the health reform fire on Capitol Hill: Americans who don't have health insurance are 40 percent more likely to die than those who have private... Read more...
Institute of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson examine role of nurses in health reform
As health reform efforts steam forward, what role should nurses play in remaking the health system? It's about time that someone asked this question, and the Institute of Medicine has come together... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: U.S. gets failing grade on preventable deaths
Here's a nasty fact to chew on: According to a study by Consumers Union, the U.S. has made little--if any--progress in reducing deaths caused by preventable medical harm over the past decade. The... Read more...
Proposed resident work hour limitations could cost teaching hospitals $1.6B
Residents are the engine that drives teaching hospitals--so cutting down their work hours would be costly. Just how costly? Well, if teaching hospitals were required to follow Institute of Medicine... Read more...
IOM offers pharma-physician conflict-of-interest guidelines
Regulations, laws and policies limiting the way physicians interact with pharmaceutical and medical device companies have been flying thick and fast over the past couple of years. It's no surprise,... Read more...
Neurosurgeons fret over possible new cuts to resident hours
To many doctors, the idea of cutting down on resident work hours is blasphemy--but in July 2003, it happened anyway. Now, with the Institute of Medicine suggesting further cuts in maximum allowable... Read more...
Comparative effectiveness research becomes battleground
In theory, comparative effectiveness research is a completely neutral idea. If you want to give patients the best, most cost-effective care, simply do good research, find out which treatments work... Read more...
IOM slams practice of accepting pharma swag
Over the last 18 months or so, the political climate has gotten pretty darned unfriendly for doctors who chose to accept pharma money or gifts. In some cases their parent organizations have banned... Read more...
Gov't readies $1.1B 'comparative effectiveness' center for summer
For years--heck, for decades--providers have argued over what treatments are most effective for a given condition. You might assume that doctors could just look up this information in some reference... Read more...
Reform may include malpractice changes
While many a medical malpractice reform has withered on the vine in recent years, a group of Democratic lawmakers and their trial lawyer backers seem determined to open up the issue again. In a... Read more...
