iHateHospitals.com

MEDICAL NEWS:
Abstract

Background  Physicians, influenced by various pressures, may document information in patient records that they did not personally observe.

Objective  To evaluate the hospital chart documentation practices of internists and internal medicine sub-specialists in the Northeastern
United States.

Design  An anoNY (New York)mous mail survey questionnaire.

Participants  One thousand one hundred twenty-six randomly selected internists and internal medicine sub-specialists.
[...]

MEDICAL NEWS:
Abstract

Background  African-American women have the highest breast (boob) cancer death rates of all racial/ethnic groups in the US. Reasons for these
disparities are multi-factorial, but include lower mammogram utilization among this population. Cultural attitudes and beliefs,
such as fear and fatalism, have not been fully explored as potential barriers to mammography among African-American women.

Objective  To [...]

MEDICAL NEWS:
Brief Report: Coronary Heart Disease Events Associated with Hormone Therapy in Younger and Older Women

Content Type Journal Article
Category Erratum
DOI 10.1007/s11606-008-0762-2
Authors

Shelley R. Salpeter, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Department of Medicine San Jose CA USA
Judith M. E. Walsh, University of California, San Francisco Department of Medicine San Francisco CA USA
Elizabeth Greyber, Santa Clara Valley Medical [...]

CANCER NEWS: IntroductionPatients with primary operable estrogen receptor negative (ER-) breast (women’s) cancer account for approximately 30% of all cases and generally have worse prognosis (outlook) than ER+ patients. Nevertheless, a significant proportion of ER- cases have favourable outcome and could potentially benefit from a less aggressive course of therapy. Identification of such good [...]

MEDICAL NEWS:
The House of the Setting Sun

Content Type Journal Article
Category Reflection
DOI 10.1007/s11606-008-0722-x
Authors

Jack Hirschman, San Francisco CA USA

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

The House of the Setting Sun - Another great medical article from iHateHospitals.com!

Click to read source…

Hospital Tags: us, Hospitals, Doctors, hospitals, Uncategorized, line, medicine, Medical News, Vioxx Lawsuit, medical, journal, [...]

MEDICAL NEWS:
Abstract

Background  Preventive service use among older adults is suboptimal. Unhealthy drinking may constitute a risk factor for failure to receive
these services.

Objectives  To determine the relationship between unhealthy drinking and receipt of recommended preventive services among elderly Medicare
beneficiaries, applying the framework of current alcohol consumption guidelines.

Design/Methods  The data source is the nationally representative 2003 [...]

MEDICAL NEWS:
Abstract

Background  Conflicts of interest (COI) in research are an important emerging topic of investigation and are frequently cited as a serious
threat to the integrity of human participant research.

Objective  To study financial conflicts of interest (FCOI) policies for individual investigators working in Canadian academic health
centers.

Design  Survey instrument containing 61 items related to FCOI.

Setting  All [...]

MEDICAL NEWS:
Abstract

Background  It is unknown whether health-related media stories reach diverse older adults and influence advance care planning (ACP).

Objective  To determine exposure to media coverage of Terri Schiavo (TS) and its impact on ACP.

Design and Participants  Descriptive study of 117 English/Spanish-speakers, aged ?50 years (mean 61 years) from a county hospital, interviewed six
months after enrollment into an [...]

MEDICAL NEWS:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unique among leading causes of death in western society. Prevalence, associated morbidity and attributable mortality continue to rise. The resultant cost in quality of life to patients, families and to the health care system in general, demands improvements in the prevention and treatment of this common and ultimately [...]

MEDICAL NEWS: One is often interested in the ratio of two variables, for example in genetics, assessing drug effectiveness, and in health economics. In this paper, we derive an explicit geometric solution to the general problem of identifying the two tangents from an arbitrary external point to an ellipse. This solution permits numerical integration [...]

CANCER NEWS: At least one in 10 colon-cancer cases might be attributed to a previously unknown genetic predisposition to the disease, according to new research led by scientists at Ohio State University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. It’s the first study to link this particular gene — transforming growth factor beta receptor 1 — to colorectal [...]

CANCER NEWS: US researchers have discovered a genetic trait that shows the strongest link yet to colorectal cancer, the number-two cancer killer in the United States, according to a study published Thursday. If a person inherits this gene, his or her risk of getting colon cancer is 50 percent higher than the the six [...]