Outcomes? You Say You Want Outcomes?
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) can be forgiven for being physician-centric. So when it publishes an article on Medical Leadership in an Increasingly Complex World, the Disease Management Care Blog looks past the politics for the lessons. There’s an important one here for not only physicians but, with some additional thought, all [...]
Guest Blog: Mediator, symptom of a broken French system
Elena Pasca blogs at PharmaCritique, and is a member of the Fondation Sciences Citoyennes. She discusses the pharmaceutical industry in France, and relationships among that industry and physicians and the government. She demonstrates that the issues we discuss on Health Care Renewal are global. Introduction A few weeks ago, the French health minister proposed a new [...]
This is investigative reporting
The Las Vegas Sun conducted an extensive investigation of the quality of care delivered by hospitals in that section of Nevada. It took two years of research by reporters Marshall Allen and Alex Richards, along with help from lots of support staff. They made use of hundreds of thousands of pieces of information. The material [...]
More on Worksite Wellness Programs and Health Care Reform
While pundits and bloggers continue to speculate on just how the House and Senate are going to get two competing health care bills passed, the Disease Management Care Blog has continued to grapple with the issue of employer wellness programs. There’s this ‘snarky’ (a quote taken from one of the 43 comments) piece over at [...]
The changing profile of pyogenic liver abscess
Klebsiella pneumoniae is emerging as the most important pathogen. Some cases are polymicrobial. Reviewed in CCJM.
