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Why Health Literacy Is Essential to Patient Care

WebFor some patients, it may literally be another language. Adding to the challenges of talking to patients about their health are the changing demographics in the US, which require …

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Evidence-Based Research: The Foundation for Treatment Decisions

WebAlthough there had been several prior studies focused on the number and frequency of chronic infections of the tonsil and adenoid tissue, we chose to measure the health …

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Universal Electronic Health Records: Progress or Boondoggle

WebImplementing electronic health records (EHRs) for all 633,000 physicians and 5708 hospitals in the United States is a daunting task, and one that is being nudged …

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The Evolution of Informed Consent

WebSince the 1950s, the notion of reasonableness has been critical to the process of informed consent. To date, approximately half of U.S. states have legally adopted the …

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Supporting Wellness Through Communities

WebW orld Mental Health Day was Oct. 10, with the theme that mental health is a universal basic human right. On that day, I watched an interview with the current …

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PROMS Can Help With Patient Outcomes And With Patient …

WebPROMs are important in otolaryngology because many of the issues that patients have (e.g., hearing loss, nasal issues, snoring, swallowing, dizziness) have a big …

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How Climate Change May Be Affecting Sleep Patterns for

WebThe final 16 included studies that examined temperature and sleep (6), extreme weather events and sleep (7), and floods, wildfires, and sleep (3). According to …

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Rise of Personal Health Records Stresses Need for Access to …

WebAt Bronx Lebanon, patient use of the portal was limited, he said, in part because many patients thought it was “a way to collect money, and to divorce the money aspect from …

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From Uninsured to Medicare Beneficiary-Who Suffers and Who …

WebAARP will also offer Health Aid-a 24/7 information and referral service for everything from healthy living to finding a caregiver. For Medicare recipients, it will offer a new Medicare …

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Rise of Personal Health Records Stresses Need for Access to …

WebThis summer also marked the unveiling of HealthKit, the Apple platform intended to allow health apps to feed their information into one place for the user to view easily, including …

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Why Aren't There More Population Health Initiatives in

WebA G oogle Scholar search for “population health diabetes” quickly turns up more than two million articles. “Population health cardiology” points to nearly 1.5 million …

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Health Care as a Commodity: Competition should be focus of …

WebWhile viewing health care as a market commodity best exchanged through a private contract between doctors and patients, Dr. Palmisano argued that the free …

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Communication, Transparency Can Improve Healthcare Value

WebDavid E. Eibling, MD, professor in the department of otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, introduced the role of transparency in value: …

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Mobile Devices in the Medical Setting Can Lead to Distracted

WebA raft of ENT-specific research on the dangers of interruptions due to mobile devices has yet to emerge. But anecdotal evidence and initial studies from other …

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Quality Over Quantity: Accountable care organizations link …

WebBeyond the handful of long-established and well-integrated sites being labeled as de facto accountable care organizations (ACOs), advocates are seizing the moment and pushing …

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Health Reform to Insure 32 Million: Are you ready for them

WebThe new health system reform law is expected to reduce the number of uninsured Americans by 32 million people, and that means more paying patients for …

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Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand on Health Care

WebTo close its budget shortfall, in 2009, the Connector hopes to raise $33 million from penalties on nonparticipating employers, tax health insurance company reserves to raise …

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Patient-Reported Outcomes Assessment in the Practice Setting: …

WebThe presentation of results will depend on the original motivation for the study; you may want to generate a report in layperson’s language for your patients, especially if the …

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Otolaryngologists-Head and Neck Surgeons Urged: Be Part of the …

WebWith the crisis in the financial markets reaching what many call historic proportions, another crisis long brewing is threatening to surface that, if some experts are correct, could have …

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Using Telemedicine in Otolaryngology

WebTelemedicine is being used in the field of otolaryngology in a variety of ways, including real-time telemedicine, which is live, interactive, and can mimic a real-life …

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How to Choose the Right Words When Talking to a Patient

WebClinical Scenario. Mrs. Jones is a 38-year-old woman who has returned to Dr. Smith’s office to learn the results of focused imaging and a fine needle aspiration …

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New Quality Indicator: MOC promotes better care, ABOto director …

WebWith greater scrutiny of doctors and easier access to information about doctors’ education, the American Board of Otolaryngology’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program is …

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