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Category: Quality
Same Sex Disparities in Access to Care
Same-sex couples have a level of access to insurance coverage and health care that is intermediate to that of married and unmarried different-sex couples. The authors of this study analyzed data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, a large Continue Reading …
Does Defensive Medicine Exist?
Despite the common thought that most physicians perform defensive medicine on a regular basis, the evidence bearing this out has been inconsistent at best. Ninety-three percent of physicians report practicing defensive medicine; that is, performing tests or therapies that provide Continue Reading …
A Randomized Trial of P4P
Pay-for-performance incentive programs are commonplace now among many health care payers. A new study out of California reports on the effect of the frequency of bonus payments on clinician quality improvement. initiatives rest on the premise that quality in Continue Reading …
Embracing the Electronic Era
Medicine lags behind many other industries in the transition to the electronic era. While high-tech advances like CAT scans and MRI machines take advantage of computerization, many physicians still rely on paper and pen to document patient conditions and treatment Continue Reading …
A Policy Prescription for 2010
A Health Reform Odyssey Many would say that the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States was predicated on one major factor – the faltering American economy. Accounting for one-sixth of this massive economy (roughly Continue Reading …
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