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- Virtual Mentor
- Communicating with patients who have life-threatening illnesses is a core medical skill. Often after watching an experienced attending physician guide a patient through the transition from disease-modifying treatment to end-of-life care, students assume that this expertise comes naturally. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, end-of-life communication skills...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Physician Pay for Performance (PFP) Initiatives
- Pay For Performance (PFP) is a method of linking pay to a measure of individual, group or organizational performance, based on an appraisal system. These types of bonus incentive schemes are based on the idea that work output, determined by some kind of measuring system, varies according to effort and...
- White papers 2005-01-13
- Expanding Insurance Coverage Through Tax Credits, Consumer Choice, and Market Enhancements
- The American Medical Association (AMA) proposes a system of tax credits for the purchase of individually owned health insurance and enhancements to individual and group health insurance markets as a means of expanding coverage. Individually owned insurance enables people to maintain coverage without disruption to existing patient physician relationships, regardless...
- White papers 2004-05-12
- Differences and Similarities in Insular and Temporal Pole MRI Gray Matter Volume Abnormalities in First-Episode Schizophrenia and Affective Psychosis
- The objective of this paper is to simultaneously evaluate multiple olfactocentric paralimbic regions, which play crucial roles in human emotion and motivation, in first-episode patients with schizophrenia and affective psychosis. Whether psychoses associated with schizophrenia and affective disorder represent manifestations of different disorders or the same disorder is an important...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Fusiform Gyrus Volume Reduction and Facial Recognition in Chronic Schizophrenia
- The fusiform gyrus (FG), or occipitotemporal gyrus, is thought to subserve the processing and encoding of faces. Of note, several studies have reported that patients with schizophrenia show deficits in facial processing. It is thus hypothesized that the FG might be one brain region underlying abnormal facial recognition in schizophrenia....
- White papers 2003-03-20
- Peace And Progress With The Health Care Team: Techniques In Conflict Negotiation
- Negotiation is the process wherein two or more parties exchange information and hold discussion towards striking a deal on mutually acceptable terms and conditions. Sometimes, due to disparate thinking of the concerned parties, negotiation gives rise to conflicts. The sources of conflict include culture/religion, money, and status. The paper examines...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Fusiform Gyrus Volume Reduction in First-Episode Schizophrenia
- The fusiform gyrus (occipitotemporal gyrus) is thought to be critical for face recognition and may possibly be associated with impaired facial recognition and interpretation of facial expression in schizophrenia. Results of postmortem studies have suggested that fusiform gyrus volume is reduced in schizophrenia, but there have been no in vivo...
- White papers 2002-08-27
- Association Between Smaller Left Posterior Superior Temporal Gyrus Volume on Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Smaller Left Temporal P300 Amplitude in First-Episode Schizophrenia
- In chronic schizophrenia, the P300 is broadly reduced and shows a localized left temporal deficit specifically associated with reduced gray matter volume of the left posterior superior temporal gyrus (STG). In first-episode patients, a similar left temporal P300 deficit is present in schizophrenia, but not in affective psychosis. The present...
- White papers 2002-03-28
- Evaluation of a Consumer-Oriented Internet Health Care Report Card
- The basic objective of this paper is to determine whether hospital ratings for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality from a prominent Internet hospital rating system accurately discriminate between hospitals' performance based on process of care and outcomes. The paper further reveals that Hospital ratings published by a prominent Internet health...
- White papers 2002-03-13
- Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research
- Avoidance of real or perceived conflicts of interest in clinical research wherever possible is imperative if the medical community is to ensure objectivity, maintain individual and institutional integrity and present an image of objectivity and integrity to the outside world. This task is complex in part because of the paucity...
- White papers 2001-10-07
- The End of Managed Care
- This article examines the retreat of employers, insurers, and physicians and the emergence of the consumer as the central decision maker in health care. A consumer-centered health care system has incomplete information on quality, inadequate spreading of insurance risk, and insufficient financial subsidies for the poor. Some observers thus argue...
- White papers 2001-05-16
- Preventable Medical Injuries in Older Patients
- Injuries associated with hospitalization are more common in older (>65 years) than in younger patients (< 65 years), and they may be more severe and more often preventable. The increasing age of the population magnifies the importance of this problem. This review first considers medical injuries in general and then...
- White papers 2000-10-09
- Hippocampal and Superior Temporal Gyrus Volume in First-Episode Schizophrenia
- The main findings from this paper was that smaller left hippocampal volumes were found in both first-episode schizophrenia and first-episode affective psychosis, as well as in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Hirayasu and colleagues found significantly smaller volumes of the left posterior amygdala-hippocampal complex in the first episode schizophrenia group but...
- White papers 2000-08-30
- Planum Temporale and Heschl Gyrus Volume Reduction in Schizophrenia
- Magnetic resonance imaging studies in schizophrenia have revealed abnormalities in temporal lobe structures, including the superior temporal gyrus. More specifically, abnormalities have been reported in the posterior superior temporal gyrus, which includes the Heschl gyrus and planum temporale, the latter being an important substrate for language. However, the specificity of...
- White papers 2000-07-06
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- Tackling Pay for Performance
- Physician leaders regard the current method of determining Medicare reimbursement as deeply flawed, but they have serious reservations about the proposed alternative. While they support the new "Pay for performance" approach because it could help improve quality, they want both Medicare and private payers to adhere to some basic principles...
- White papers 2005-05-06
- American Hospital Association
- The American Hospital Association (AHA) is dedicated to advancing the health of individuals and their communities. As the trusted source of information for the nation's hospitals, health care systems, networks and other care providers, the AHA turned to best-of-breed technology to improve medical care. Verity's intellectual capital management solutions help...
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- Tide Rises on Pay for Performance With Voluntary Reporting Initiative
- The era of reporting hospital performance to the public and tying payment to quality is now a reality. In 2003, the American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, and the Association of American Medical Colleges launched a national voluntary reporting initiative to make critical information about hospital performance accessible...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Return on Investment Study for Medical Simulation Training
- This study attempts to quantify the return on investment for medical simulators - because to justify a capital equipment purchase, a hospital or training institution needs both a clinical and a cost-benefit justification. Immersion Medical engaged Frost & Sullivan to do this study in conjunction with The Health Research and...
- White papers 2004-06-30
- Envisioning the Roadmap for a National Hospital Quality Reporting
- The American Hospital Association (AHA), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) engaged Booz Allen Hamilton on behalf of the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) to pulse prominent thought leaders with opinions about hospital quality reporting and determine a roadmap for a single reporting...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- 2003 Bank Holding Company Insurance Income on Track to Beat 2002
- This paper is based on an analysis by the American Bankers Insurance Association and the Economic Policy and Research Division of the American Bankers Association. The data is based on the Year to Date June, 2003 figures reported to the Federal Reserve by bank holding companies in the 2nd quarter...
- White papers 2003-11-12
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