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• Doctor’s view on paying for health reform

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 121
  Well-known and well-respected surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande is discussing healthcare reform and his opinion is worth reading. Dr. Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He helps put health reform costs in perspective in his latest article for The New Yorker ...
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• Health Care and Cancer: Reforming the Odds in a Costly System

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 794
  Filed under: Senate , House , Health Care , Obama Administration , Woman Up , Congress The government body that recently advised women in their 40s that they neednt bother with mammogram screenings now says its message was misunderstood. The task force "did not say what the task force meant to say, its vice ...
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• What bridges the gap between evidence-based medicine and the patient?

  
  Zackary Sholem Berger — Authority: 114
  Under the withering barrage of recent guideline changes, doctors and patients alike have raised their hands in surrender. It seems like guideline group after group have changed their recommendations to say (more or less) the same thing: "[name of screening test here] should be discussed with the patient according to ...
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• How Industry Views the Research It Sponsors

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 159
  We have posted frequently about threats to the integrity of the clinical evidence-based, and to the practice of evidence-based medicine.  In particular, we have discussed how research may be manipulated in favor of vested interests, or suppressed when the results do not favor such interests. read more
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• SPOTLIGHT: Order sets improve compliance with best practices

  
  News — Authority: 126
  A multi-hospital collaboration in Canada was able to reduce inpatient length of stay by nearly a full day, cut unscheduled readmissions in half and improve compliance with best practices by standardizing more than 100 order sets at 11 hospitals. By working with a 90-hospital consortium called the Open Source Order Set ...
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• Complementary Medicine & Pharmacists

  
  Laika's MedLibLog — Authority: 464
  I don’t know if the situation is the same in other countries, but in the Netherlands we can only get prescribed medications in pharmacies. Drugstores are only allowed to sell over-the counter (OTC) medicines.Most Pharmacies have a small shop of 5 square meters (besides a large storage room). What surprises me is ...
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• #FollowFriday #FF the EBM-Skeptics @cochranecollab @EvidenceMatters @oracknows @ACPinternists

  
  Laika's MedLibLog — Authority: 464
  FollowFriday is a twitter tradition in which twitter users recommend other users to follow (on Friday) by twittering their name(s), the hashtags #FF or #FollowFriday, and the reason for their recommendation(s).Since the roll out of Twitter lists I add the #FollowFriday Recommendations to a (semi-)permanent ...
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• Adding Methodological Filters to MyNCBI

  
  Laika's MedLibLog — Authority: 464
  Idea: Arnold LeendersText: “Laika” Methodological Search Filters can help to narrow down a search by enriching for studies with a certain study design or methodology. PubMed has build-in methodological filters, the so called Clinical Queries for domains (like therapy and diagnosis) and for evidence based papers ...
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• "Relaxed" guidelines and breast cancer awareness

  
  Zackary Sholem Berger — Authority: 114
  Im glad Hadassah is encouraging women to start annual breast exams at 40 and not follow the new "relaxed" guidelines . "Relaxed" is what I would call "evidence-based," but never mind. The reason, shared with us by Allison Hoffman in Tablets The Scroll, is that "Ashkenazi Jewish women are about five ...
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• American College of Physicians blasts "politicization of evidence-based clinical research"

  
  Schwitzer health news blog — Authority: 500
  The American College of Physicians - the largest medical specialty organization and the second-largest physician group in the United States - has issued this statement: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on mammography, which were published in ACPs...
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• Orrin Hatch Opens the Door for Big Government Pasta Faith Healing Program

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 443
  The Washington Post reports that Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah is pushing hard to get a provision included that would mandate insurance coverage for remote faith healing. Dial-a-prayer hotlines to which people make calls and (for a fee, of course) arrange for distant intercessory prayers to heal the sick would be ...
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• Top technology trends for payers

  
  News — Authority: 126
  Health insurers will be keeping close watch on genetic testing and electronic medical records in 2010, according to the first of a planned annual series of reports from research organization ECRI Institute. Rounding out the top seven technology trends that payers should pay attention to in the new year are: Premium CT ...
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• Following the evidence on cancer screenings

  
  The Platform — Authority: 499
  Women worried about breast cancer have just one concern: What can they do to reduce the risk of dying from the disease? One answer is to get regular mammograms. Over the past 15 years, that advice has saved thousands of lives.…
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• Rethink pink: breast cancer screening evidence met politics and lost

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 469
  The controversy started at exactly 5 p.m. Monday, when the Annals of Internal Medicine lifted its embargo on new breast cancer screening recommendations and the rest of the medical community simultaneously released opposing positions. With lines drawn and positions taken, a furor began ultimately pitted ...
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• Evidence Based Medicine and Reform

  
  The Health Care Reform Debate Blog - cmhmd — Authority: 109
  This week has been very disappointing, with the USPSTF breast cancer screening guidelines coming out and recieving such an intemperate analysis by virtually everyone with access to a microphone or a camera. Here is a very thoughtful analysis for those who are interested, but Im really writing this because of what ...
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• What health reform looks like in the real world

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 121
  By Kester FreemanRetired CEO, Palmetto HealthA handful of hospitals are in the process of reforming healthcare and these changes are happening now, without any mandates from Washington. Imagine that!The hospitals are participating in a program called QUEST: High Performing Hospitals, and a recent post on the Robert ...
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• Personal Tech: Medical Apps for the iPhone

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 120
  From NY Times Personal Tech: Medical Apps for the iPhone After a lot of time reading "best medical apps" stories online, asking Twitter users for their suggestions and reading online reviews, I finally boiled the list down to about 50 promising apps. I tried them out and further winnowed the list to a bunch that I ...
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  JAMA — Authority: 443
  
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• Skip Mammograms Until 50, Says U.S. Panel: First Instance of Rationing of Care by Death Panels?

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 526
  "Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death.” Hippocratic Oath, Modern Version [1] "Critical thinking always, or your patients dead" - Victor P. Satinsky, M.D. [2] In reading an article today about the decision by a government task force that screening mammograms are unnecessary for ...
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