Special items: Ovarian Cancer and Us blog best viewed in Firefox

▼
Showing posts with label patient care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patient care. Show all posts
Friday, May 11, 2012

CancerWorld: Framing the argument over futile care - overdiagnose, overtreat, overpromise...media focus

›
Framing the argument over futile care : We “overdiagnose, overtreat and overpromise”. This was the claim made by numerous newspaper headli...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Association for Psychological Science (Harvard): Is modern medicine ill with dehumanization?

›
Is modern medicine ill with dehumanization? New article offers a diagnosis, unveils its causes, and prescribes a humanizing cure "A...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Arch Intern Med -- Abstract: Intensive Care Unit Bed Availability and Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients With Sudden Clinical Deterioration (Calgary, Alberta)

›
Arch Intern Med -- Abstract: Intensive Care Unit Bed Availability and Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients With Sudden Clinical Deterioration ...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

open access: Goal-Oriented Patient Care — An Alternative Health Outcomes Paradigm — NEJM

›
"Ultimately, good medicine is about doing right for the patient. For patients with multiple chronic diseases, severe disability, or li...
Monday, January 09, 2012

Multinational Comparisons of Health Systems Data, 2011 - The Commonwealth Fund including link to 2011 patient care coordination (11 countries)

›
"International comparisons of health care systems offer valuable tools to health ministers, policymakers, and academics wishing to...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

full free access: Genomics and the Continuum of Cancer Care — NEJM (long article covering differing concerns)

›
Friday, August 27, 2010

What makes a good doctor? The Lancet

›
Blogger's Note: the discussion regarding education/system/research/focus would be an appropriate concern for all those involved with di...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Patient Willingness to Be Seen by Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Residents in the Emergency Department: Does the Presumption of Assent Have an Empirical Basis? - The American Journal of Bioethics

›
Note: the journal has a number of similar papers regarding this issue, however, this is a subscription/pay-per-view journal without access ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Editorial: Who Are We and Where Are We Headed? Journal of Oncology Practice

›
Note: factors/needs affecting physicians taking care of patients