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Background  Pay for performance (P4P) programs have shown only modest improvements in outcomes and do not target patient behaviors. MaNY (New York)
large employers and payers are turning to pay for performance for patients (P4P4P) to reduce health costs and improve the
health of their covered populations. How these programs may be perceived by patients [...]

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Background  How medical decisions are made in real-life situations is largely unexplored. We explored patients’ perceptions of decision-making
during a hospitalization and examined the conformity of the decision process with expert recommendations.

Objective  To describe the conformity of the decision-making process with current expert opinion and examine the associations between
various aspects of the decision-making process [...]

MEDICAL NEWS:
Sodium Intake and Mortality: The Debate Continues

Content Type Journal Article
Category Editorial
DOI 10.1007/s11606-008-0743-5
Authors

Daniel T. Lackland, Medical University of South Carolina Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology Charleston SC USA
Brent M. Egan, Medical University of South Carolina Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology Charleston SC USA

Journal Journal of General Internal Medicine
Online ISSN 1525-1497
Print ISSN 0884-8734

Sodium Intake [...]

MEDICAL NEWS:
Smoking Cessation for Hospital Patients: An Opportunity to Increase the Reach of Effective Smoking Cessation Programs

Content Type Journal Article
Category Editorial
DOI 10.1007/s11606-008-0703-0
Authors

Lori A. Bastian, Duke University/Durham VA Departments of Internal Medicine and Obstetric/Gynecology Durham NC USA

Journal Journal of General Internal Medicine
Online ISSN 1525-1497
Print ISSN 0884-8734

Smoking Cessation for Hospital Patients: An Opportunity to Increase the Reach [...]

MEDICAL NEWS: Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a dominantly inherited multi-system disorder. Major features include pigmentary abnormalities, benign tumors of the nerve sheath (neurofibromas), malignant (very bad) tumors, learning disabilities, and skeletal dysplasia. The NF1 gene functions as a tumor suppressor, but haploinsuffiency probably accounts for some aspects of the non-tumor phenotype. The protein [...]

MEDICAL NEWS: Background:
Bowing and/or pseudarthrosis of the tibia is a known severe complication of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Mice with conditionally inactivated neurofibromin (Nf1) in the developing limbs and cranium (Nf1Prx1) show bowing of the tibia caused by decreased bone mineralisation and increased bone vascularisation. However, in contrast to NF1 patients, spontaneous fractures do [...]

MEDICAL NEWS: Background Vignette studies of medical choice and judgement have gained popularity in the medical literature. Originally developed in mathematical psychology they can be used to evaluate physicians’ behaviour in the setting of diagnostic testing or treatment decisions.
Objectives To provide an overview of the use, objectives and methodology of [...]

Hospitals & Doctors:
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (July 29, 2008) - UC Davis Health System will host its 2nd annual summER (Emergency Room) concER (Emergency Room)t with popular, local dance band Hip SER (Emergency Room)vice on Thursday, Aug. 14 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the back lawn of the UC Davis Education Building at 45th and [...]

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SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (July 29, 2008) - UC Davis nephrologist FraziER (Emergency Room) Stevenson has been elected president of the IntER (Emergency Room)national Association of medical (to do with medicine) Educators, an association of sevER (Emergency Room)al Ph.D., M.D., D.V.M. and othER (Emergency Room) educators whose mission is to build the skills of medical [...]

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SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (July 29, 2008) - Ishwarlal Jialal, UC Davis professor of endocrinology, clinical nutrition and vascular medicine, is the 2008 recipient of the Carl R. Joliff Award for Lifetime Achievement in Clinical or Diagnostic Immunology. The award is bestowed by the AmER (Emergency Room)ican Association for Clinical Chemistry’s Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology [...]

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SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (July 23, 2008) - Prenatal alcohol exposure may be particularly destructive for neurotrophins, a family of peptides that influence the growth, development and functional plasticity of the fetal brain.

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SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (July 17, 2008) - Thumbelina, the world’s smallest horse, will visit inpatients at UC Davis ChilDr. (God)n’s Hospital on Friday, July 18.Though she is smallER (Emergency Room) than many dogs, the smiles that she brings to chilDr. (God)n’s faces are huge.

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Thumbelina, the world’s smallest horse, to visit UC Davis [...]