Search results for "Falls"
Updated guidelines issued for fall prevention in the elderly
Behavioral therapy reduces incontinence after radical prostatectomy
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/01/25/4.htm
25 Jan 2011
Call for fall 2011 Board of Governors resolutions
The deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the fall 2011 Board of Governors meeting is Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. A resolution becomes a resolution of the chapter once the chapter council approves it.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/01/25/10.htm
25 Jan 2011
The next issue is online
Depression quality improvement program seeks participantsCall for fall 2011 Board of Governors resolutionsClinical skills proposals for Internal Medicine 2012 wanted
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/01/25/8.htm
25 Jan 2011
MKSAP Quiz: a 1-week history of paresthesias
Updated guidelines issued for fall prevention in the elderly
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/01/25/3.htm
25 Jan 2011
New year brings big, small changes to practice administration
Three federal regulations create new opportunities and hurdles for physicians, including new reimbursements, Medicare annual wellness visits and a potential uptick in office visits to document over-the-counter drugs for health plans.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/02/coding.htm
1 Feb 2011
History will judge outgoing Congress' impact on health reform
One would have to go back more than 45 years to find a Congress that has had as big an impact on health care as the just-departed 111th Congress.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/02/washington.htm
1 Feb 2011
Adult immunization rates fall far short of goals
The CDC's Healthy People 2010 campaign aimed to have 60% of high-risk patients under 65 vaccinated against pneumonia and influenza. Actual immunization rates may be half of that. The president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases describes the barriers and the solutions.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/04/immunize.htm
1 Apr 2011
Chapter Awardees
In recognition of their outstanding service, exceptional individuals received chapter awards in the fall and winter 2010-2011.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/04/award.htm
1 Apr 2011
Internists need to know coding for CPAP, observation services
There's more to internal medicine than evaluation and management services. Two of the more common of the uncommon services to code for include CPAP for sleep disorders, and guidance on billing for observation and same-day discharges.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/04/coding.htm
1 Apr 2011
New algorithm helps weed out unneeded drugs in the elderly
Geriatrician Doron Garfinkel, MD, developed the Good Palliative-Geriatric Practice algorithm for discontinuing elderly patients' unneeded medications. In a study, he showed how it led to discontinuing 58% of the drugs taken by a group of community-dwelling elderly.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/05/medications.htm
1 May 2011