Although Medicare pays for an annual mammography, only 80% of women in their late 60s have had one in the past 2 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.Only two-thirds of adults age 65 and older reported in 1999 that they received a flu shot the ...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends against screening for thyroid cancer in adults without any signs or symptoms. The report appears in the May 9 issue of JAMA. This is a D recommendation, indicating that there is moderate or high certainty that screening has no net ...
What I love most about going through Bishop’s vignettes has been how it’s given me a new lease on justwhyI like accumulating Blur materials. I never sprang forthe 21 box, as I already owned most of the albums and, being in grad school, I couldn’t justify the expense on CD’s. ...
"Our finding that insurance coverage fully accounted for unemployed adults' lower cancer screening utilization is potentially good news, because it's modifiable," Dr. Fedewa added. "When people are unemployed and have health insurance, they have screening rates that are similar to employed adults."...
(QI) intervention.Data sourcesPre- and post intervention data were abstracted from 50 medical records of patients with type 2 diabetes in a small primary care practice.ConclusionThere was a significant increase in the rates of foot and urine microalbumin screenings, documentation for dilated eye ...