Gaining Control of Hypertension Early in Patients With Diabetes
Hypertension is a common comorbidity of diabetes that increases risks for cardiovascular disease...
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Substance & Alcohol Use After Weight Loss Surgery
Weight loss surgery (WLS) has been an effective treatment for many patients with clinically severe...
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Can Financial Incentives for Patients Induce Weight Loss?
Several studies have suggested that financial incentives appear to help overweight and obese...
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Developing a Cardiology-Oncology Partnership
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer are the most prevalent diseases in the current era, and...
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Improving Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), more than 200,000 adults and 6,000 children...
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Making the Case to Include EDs in Readmission Rates
In recent years, CMS has invested heavily in policies, incentives, and other interventions to...
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Enhancing Diabetes Knowledge in Patients
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) was established, in part, to improve treatment and...
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Reducing Readmissions in COPD
Throughout the United States, more patients are being diagnosed with and treated for COPD than...
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Managing AF: A Look at Treating Specialty
About 2.3 million Americans are affected by atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter (AF), a...
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Using Readbacks to Enhance Patient Safety
Normal readback orders have been recommended as a patient safety initiative for physicians,...
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Optimizing Pre-Op Assessments of Geriatric Surgical Patients
The percentage of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to more than double between 2010 and...
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Live Longer in the North
The figure below shows state-specific healthy life expectancy in years at age 65, by sex, in the...
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Examining an Innovative Treatment for BPH
Globally, more than 110 million men suffer from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a condition...
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Heart Disease Awareness Among Women
In 1997, a national survey commissioned by the American Heart Association (AHA) documented that...
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Greenlight HPS – Prostate After Brachytherapy
The video presents a greenlight HPS photoselective vaporization of the prostate after...
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Progress Elusive for New Antibiotics
There has been a desperate need for new antibiotics to treat infections caused by...
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Antibiotic Safety
Antibiotics can have side effects, including allergic reactions and a potentially deadly diarrhea...
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Enhancing QOL During Radiotherapy for Advanced Cancer
Cancer patients often experience a reduction in quality of life (QOL) during and after cancer...
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Examining a Protocol for Transfusing Plasma to Severely Injured Patients
Patients with a trauma-induced coagulopathy account for more than half of hemorrhagic deaths in...
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