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- Aging With Mental Retardation: Increasing Population of Older Adults With MR Require Health Interventions and Prevention Strategies
- The second half of the 20th century vastly increased the life span of those with mental retardation MR. Today the average life expectancy of older adults with MR is 66.1 years and growing. As these individuals age, they present increasing challenges to the clinician. Primary care providers need to be...
- White papers
- The Changing Face of Locum Tenens Practice
- The paper reveals that weekly; thousands of physicians pack their bags and travel across the country to work on assignments lasting from a few days to several months, or longer. They provide coverage at hospitals, community clinics, managed care organizations, single- and multi-specialty practices, government medical facilities, and large healthcare...
- White papers
- Adolescent Patients and Their Confidentiality: Staying Within Legal Bounds
- Optimizing adolescent health Providers who care for adolescents must recognize and respond to issues that lie at the intersection of medicine, law, and ethics. Respecting an adolescent's right to privacy reduces one barrier to care. When a patient trusts a physician, they are likely to delay medical care and more...
- White papers
- Pain Management: Delivering Culturally Appropriate Care
- For many Americans, pain is the number one reason to visit their doctors. Until recently, healthcare providers had only the crudest understanding of the mystery of pain. But due to the innovations of genetic research, radiology, and neurology, dramatic advances are being made in determining its causes. Yet, while advances...
- White papers
- Conscious Sedation Avoids Risks of General Anesthesia
- The reduced risk inherent in the use of conscious sedation is a benefit that is appealing to both patients and surgeons. The primary challenge to safe and effective use of conscious sedation for cosmetic surgery is ensuring that adequate levels of local anesthesia are being administered. This is accomplished through...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Viewpoint: Very-Low-Fat Diets Are Superior to Low-Carbohydrate Diets
- Despite the ostensible health risks of low-carb diets, some people have followed this approach and lost weight. This anecdotal evidence, coupled with successful marketing campaigns, has led even neutral consumer advocates to encourage weight controllers to "Add a Little Fat" to their diets. Despite waning interest in this approach, acceptance...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- State of the Industry 2006
- Summarizing the Healthcare industry and the state of the precarious union between providers and payers is like trying to balance a gallon of fresh gelatin in hands. Healthcare is an industry perhaps more complex, fragmented and difficult to comprehend than any other. This article provides information on the various "Balancing...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Grand Rounds: Can Progesterone Prevent Preterm Birth?
- No one has to remind ob/gyns that Preterm Birth PTB takes a heavy toll both medically and financially on the American public. Unfortunately, in past decades clinicians have had little success is reining in this problem. But in order to achieve the most benefit from this therapy, several educational and...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- New Guidelines Help Manage Chronic Heart Failure
- Heart Failure HF is a major health problem and a leading cause of hospitalizations among the elderly. Keeping pace with the new treatment approaches, the American College of Cardiology ACC and the American Heart Association AHA task force released updated Guidelines for the Diagnosis and the Management of Chronic Heart...
- White papers 2005-09-26
- Cost-Effectiveness of 4 Empiric Antimicrobial Regimens in Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia
- This study compares the cost-effectiveness of the 4 most common empiric antimicrobial regimens used for the treatment of adults with Community-Acquired Pneumonia CAP at a community health system during a 6-month period. Associations between initial antimicrobials and total hospital costs were determined. Cost-effectiveness ratios were determined by dividing the total...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Innovative Approaches Help Improve the Managed Care Trifecta
- It is no surprise that many healthcare organizations are content with the status quo. But is the status quo good enough? According a World Health Organization report from 2000, the United Status spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, but only ranks 37th in health system...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- The Power of Low-Tech Nursing
- Research has shown that touching patients has several benefits. One study found that patients whose hands were held during cataract surgery reported less anxiety and had lower blood epinephrine levels than those who underwent cataract surgery without hand-holding. Another study found that elderly female nursing home residents who received comforting...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Creative Come-Ons Encourage More Generic Utilization
- Generics should get a large boost in the coming years as branded drugs accounting for more than $38 billion, including Prevacid, Prevachol, Zocor, Zoloft and Paxil, are expected to come off patent by the end of 2008. The paper outlines that the use of generics is definitely on the rise....
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Higher Percentages of Americans Use Alternative Medicine
- Consumers more and more are trying to take control of their own healthcare destinies. They are looking for more therapy alternatives so they can better manage their healthcare dollars. With more of that responsibility falling to consumers, many managed care organizations are realizing that they must offer choices that until...
- White papers 2005-02-01
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- Children's Hospital Boston Turns to Skyscape Mobile Medical References for Immediate Information Access
- MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- Clinicians making their rounds at Children's Hospital Boston are replacing charts, index cards, and heavy books with 6 1/2-ounce, handheld wireless computers that carry important patient information and mobile medical references from Skyscape, Inc., the leading provider of interactive mobile references for over 475,000 medical professionals. ...
- Articles 2005-11-29
- Family Practitioners Are Embracing Mobile Medical Reference Solutions, Cite Benefits Including Update-to-Date Information, Error Reduction
- SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Practitioners are enthusiastically embracing the use of mobile medical reference solutions and cite the timeliness of information and help in reducing medical errors among the greatest benefits, according to Skyscape, Inc., the leading provider of interactive mobile references for over 475,000 medical...
- Articles 2005-09-28
- Skyscape Closes Enterprise Sale at the University of Louisville to More Than 900 Health Sciences Students
- Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers BIOWIRE2K HUDSON, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 22, 2003 Patented PDA Technology Supports the Education of Hundreds of Health Sciences Students with Quick, Efficient Information at the Point-of-Care SkyscapeR, Inc. (www.skyscape.com), the leading provider of mobile medical and...
- Articles 2003-07-22
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