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A Look at Patients’ Willingness to Wait for ED Care
Oct 23, 2013
As the number of patients seeking emergency care in the United States continues to grow, so too...
Read MoreAdvances in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Oct 22, 2013
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a lateral and rotational deformity of the spine that...
Read MoreVideo Capsule Endoscopy in the ED
Oct 21, 2013
Esophagoduodenoscopy is the current gold standard for stratifying risk in patients with...
Read MoreGaining Control of Hypertension Early in Patients With Diabetes
Oct 21, 2013
Hypertension is a common comorbidity of diabetes that increases risks for cardiovascular disease...
Read MoreSubstance & Alcohol Use After Weight Loss Surgery
Oct 21, 2013
Weight loss surgery (WLS) has been an effective treatment for many patients with clinically severe...
Read MoreCan Financial Incentives for Patients Induce Weight Loss?
Oct 18, 2013
Several studies have suggested that financial incentives appear to help overweight and obese...
Read MoreDeveloping a Cardiology-Oncology Partnership
Oct 17, 2013
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer are the most prevalent diseases in the current era, and...
Read MoreImproving Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Oct 14, 2013
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), more than 200,000 adults and 6,000 children...
Read MoreMaking the Case to Include EDs in Readmission Rates
Oct 12, 2013
In recent years, CMS has invested heavily in policies, incentives, and other interventions to...
Read MoreEnhancing Diabetes Knowledge in Patients
Oct 10, 2013
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) was established, in part, to improve treatment and...
Read MoreReducing Readmissions in COPD
Oct 8, 2013
Throughout the United States, more patients are being diagnosed with and treated for COPD than...
Read MoreManaging AF: A Look at Treating Specialty
Oct 8, 2013
About 2.3 million Americans are affected by atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter (AF), a...
Read MoreUsing Readbacks to Enhance Patient Safety
Oct 3, 2013
Normal readback orders have been recommended as a patient safety initiative for physicians,...
Read MoreOptimizing Pre-Op Assessments of Geriatric Surgical Patients
Oct 3, 2013
The percentage of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to more than double between 2010 and...
Read MoreLive Longer in the North
Oct 3, 2013
The figure below shows state-specific healthy life expectancy in years at age 65, by sex, in the...
Read MoreExamining an Innovative Treatment for BPH
Oct 2, 2013
Globally, more than 110 million men suffer from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a condition...
Read MoreHeart Disease Awareness Among Women
Oct 1, 2013
In 1997, a national survey commissioned by the American Heart Association (AHA) documented that...
Read MoreGreenlight HPS – Prostate After Brachytherapy
Sep 30, 2013
The video presents a greenlight HPS photoselective vaporization of the prostate after...
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