The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) announced in its July 12 issue that authors must disclose all potential conflicts of interest, including specific financial interests and relationships relevant to the subject of the manuscript. Beginning in January 2007, JAMA will require...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 29
Contrary to popular perception, higher levels of uninsured, low-income, minority, and immigrant populations do not cause higher rates of emergency department (ED) use, according to an analysis of 60 American communities.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 28
An analysis of physician labor inputs across regions with an academic medical center projects a surplus of nearly 50,000 physicians by the year 2020, based on regions with the lowest number of doctors per capita. The lead author of the study argues that adding more physicians to the workforce is...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 28
Fifty percent of healthcare providers in rural Colorado and Kansas believe that palliative care at the end of life could be improved at their facility, according to the results of a survey published in the Journal of Rural Health. Differences in perceptions of palliative care among clinicians,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 27
A study of quality process measures for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) found that their application accounted for only 6% of hospital-level variation in risk-standardized, 30-day mortality rates for patients with AMI. The study, published in the July 5 issue of the Journal of the American...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 26
Americans made more than 1.1 billion visits annually to physician offices and hospital emergency and outpatient departments in 2004, up by 31% since 1994, according to the latest data released by The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on June 23, in its annual national hospital ambulatory medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 25
The nation's emergency medical system as a whole is overburdened, underfunded, highly fragmented, and ill-prepared to handle surges from disasters, according to a series of reports released June 14 by the Institute of Medicine (IoM). The IoM's recommendations for resolving these problems include...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 24
A new study from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has found that community-based preparation for and response to disasters will require more effective communication and planning among hospitals, public health agencies, and community first responders than...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 23
Physicians in regions with high-intensity medical care (i.e., a higher number of hospital beds and specialists per capita) report less satisfaction with their careers and perceive the quality of care they provide to be lower than physicians in regions with less healthcare spending per capita,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 22
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) issued a report May 22 predicting that the supply of physicians who specialize in treating critically ill patients likely won't keep up with growing demand. About 2,000 critical care physicians, or intensivists, currently work in the nation...
