Healthcare :: Survey shows that patients have trust and confidence in their doctors
Responding to the Healthcare Commission?s survey of patients? experiences, Chairman of the BMA?s Consultants? Committee, Dr Jonathan Fielden, said:
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Healthcare :: 25,000 needless deaths each year due to failure to tackle blood clots in hospital
Up to 25,000 people may die needlessly each year due to the failure to prevent blood clots known as venous thromboembolisms (VTE) in UK hospitals, say experts in this week’s BMJ.
Depression :: Minorities prefer counseling to drugs for treating depression
Some ethnic minorities could be twice as likely as white and Native American people to prefer counseling and prayer to medication for treating depression, according to a national Internet survey.
Healthcare :: To what extent are emergency departments being used for primary care?
There is some belief that Emergency Departments are being used for nonemergency medical care. In particular, do Medicaid recipients and uninsured patients overutilize ED for services better provided in other settings? In two studies conducted at Oregon Health and Science University, to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, researchers have investigated some common assumptions about ED use and found some surprising results.
Healthcare :: How will responders respond?
When disaster strikes, taking care of the victims is the top priority. But who will provide that care” In a study presented at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Temple University researchers uncovered psychological barriers that might keep doctors, nurses and support staff from reporting to work in a disaster.
Healthcare :: Head of UN-backed health assembly urges rapid knowledge-sharing on diseases
The head of the decision-making body of the United Nations World Health Organization today stressed the importance of rapid, world-wide sharing of knowledge on diseases, as he opened the annual policy meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
Healthcare :: Conference to focus on transfer of knowledge from research to practice in emergency medicine
The translation of important results of clinical research into consistent benefits for patients is of special interest to Emergency Medicine and will be the subject of the 2007 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference.
Puberty :: Childhood environment influences reproductive function
A study led by researchers at UCL (University College London) demonstrates that female reproductive function is influenced by childhood environment. This suggests there is a critical window of time from about 0-8 years of age that determines the rate at which girls physically mature and how high their reproductive hormone levels reach as adults
Healthcare :: Medical research scientists make ethical value judgments in research
Medical research scientists in public health and other areas routinely make ethical value judgments, even if they’re not aware of it, according to a new Weill Cornell Medical College research study. And not only do these judgments not lead to bias necessarily, but they can make for better research.
Aspirin :: Baby Aspirin Better for Your Health
Nearly a quarter of a million Americans each year may be hospitalized with bleeding complications caused by needlessly taking a daily dose of an adult-sized aspirin rather than a baby aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke.