Clinical Review
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The Personal Health Journal: Empowering Patients by Design
One health care system has developed a journal to strengthen the partnership between providers and patients.
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Brief, Focused Provider Consultation
Primary care providers are taking on more responsibility for mental health care than ever before. This model uses psychiatric consultation on...
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Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies Among Veterans: A Pilot Study
Recognizing the steadily increasing popularity of these therapies, the VA has called for more research into patterns of use among veterans. Here...
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A Model for Mental Health Care
Same-day access systems have shown promise in primary care practices, but can they work for mental health care? Here's the experience from one VA...
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Over 100 Unnecessary Psychiatric Admissions
Besides driving up health care costs, patterns of unnecessary hospitalization hurt patients by delaying appropriate intervention. This case...
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Practice Pearls for Titrating Antiglycemics
Diabetes cases may be so complex that practitioners feel they have too little time to devote to blood glucose management. Here are some succinct...
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Atypical Presentations of Clostridium difficile
When C. difficile infection has atypical features, the diagnosis may be missed and hospital stay prolonged. But how prevalent are atypical...
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Carbon Monoxide Monitoring
Responding to the deficit of evaluative "hard data" on smoking cessation treatments, this study used CO monitoring to measure progress in a VA...
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Primary Care Panels in the VA [published correction appears in: Fed Pract. 2004;21(9):99.]
The VA has refined its definition of primary care panels to increase quality and satisfaction as well as efficiency. Here's an overview of the...
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Diabetes Mellitus Self-Management
Understanding your patients' thoughts about health conditions—particularly with regard to chronic disease care—can help you get them on the road...