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How Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Implemented Washington's Death With Dignity Act
April 10, 2013 — Because several states are considering similar Death with Dignity laws, and because such legislation disproportionately affects cancer patients and their families, SCCA conducted a study to describe ... > full story -
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Distracted Driving: Habits of San Diego Drivers Revealed
April 10, 2013 — There were approximately 3,300 deaths and 400,000 injuries nationwide in the US in 2011 due to collisions involving distracted driving. With April being national distracted driving awareness month, a ... > full story -
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Single Best Practice to Prevent DVT Reduces Hospital Costs by More Than $1.5 Million Annually
April 10, 2013 — Researchers report success in using a concept called "value-based analysis," which simultaneously measures quality and cost and addresses inefficiencies in care. The researchers applied a value-based ... > full story -
Researchers Develop Tool to Assist Areas of Infectious Disease Outbreaks
April 10, 2013 — Researchers have developed a simple new tool to help governments worldwide decide whether to screen airplane passengers leaving or arriving from areas of infectious disease ... > full story -
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One in Five Seniors on Risky Meds; More in US South
April 10, 2013 — A study of more than six million seniors in Medicare Advantage plans in 2009 found that 21 percent received a prescription for at least one potentially harmful "high risk medication." Nearly 5 ... > full story -
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Mining Information Contained in Clinical Notes Could Yield Early Signs of Harmful Drug Reactions
April 10, 2013 — Mining the records of routine interactions between patients and their care providers can detect drug side effects a couple of years before an official alert from the US Food and Drug Administration, ... > full story -
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Doctors Not Informed of Harmful Effects of Medicines During Sales Visits
April 10, 2013 — The majority of family doctors receive little or no information about harmful effects of medicines when visited by drug company representatives, according to a new ... > full story -
Adult Generations of Today Are Less Healthy Than Their Counterparts of Previous Generations
April 10, 2013 — Despite their greater life expectancy, the adults of today are less "metabolically" healthy than their counterparts of previous generations. That's the conclusion of a large cohort study which ... > full story -
Modest Population-Wide Weight Loss Could Result in Reductions in Type 2 Diabetes and Cardio Disease
April 9, 2013 — A new article suggests a strong association between population-wide weight change and risk of death from Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular ... > full story -
Fewer Unnecessary Early Deliveries Seen in Multistate, Hospital-Based Study
April 8, 2013 — A hospital-based quality improvement program showed an 83 percent decline in the rate of elective early term deliveries (inductions of labor and cesarean sections without a medical reason) among of ... > full story
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