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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus. ’s (2006) narrative synthesis was used to analyze and report the results. Popay et al.’s

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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

Like many health care systems, OSF HealthCare—now with 17 hospitals throughout Illinois and Michigan—has found that bouncebacks from SNFs are the single biggest slice of that system’s preventable readmissions. It’s also a big reason why bouncebacks from SNFs are so common. ’ ” Follow-up after SNF discharge As Mr. .

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Study finds primary care physicians increasingly treat mental health concerns

Medical Xpress

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, compared national data on primary care visits from 2006 and 2007 to data from 2016 and 2018, finding that the proportion of visits addressing mental health concerns rose by almost 50 percent.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

FDA recognizes that the FD&C Act exempts licensed healthcare practitioners from certain device regulations if they manufacture devices solely for use in the course of their professional practice. The PR goes on to state that the FD&C Act definition of a device does not turn on where or by whom a test system is “manufactured.”

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Draft LASIK Guidance: Why Did FDA Issue New Labeling Recommendations for Products that Already Have PMA Approved Labeling?

FDA Law Blog

There appears to be significant overlap in content between the Checklist and informed consent forms and processes routinely provided by healthcare providers to their patients. While there are PMA supplements steadily filed in this product code until the present, it appears from FDA’s database that the last original PMA approval was in 2006.

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Politics and practice guidelines: a volatile mix

The Health Policy Exchange

The annual budget for the National Institutes of Health , for example, is typically around 100 times that of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Health services research in the United States has historically been the "poor cousin" of biomedical research in federal funding and support. Phillips, Jr.

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Kaiser Permanente study shows screening efforts cut colorectal cancer deaths in half

Permanente Medicine

million men and women aged 50 to 75 examined the outcomes of a Kaiser Permanente Northern California initiative begun in 2006 to increase colorectal cancer screening rates. Findings from the study demonstrate how routine cancer screening with a test that can both prevent cancer and lead to earlier detection helps enhance quality of care.