Search results for "Disparities"
Course offered on healing health care disparities through education
Medical educators are invited to attend a two-day course featuring interactive methods for achieving the recently mandated integration of cross-cultural care into medical school and residency programs.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/08/07/5.htm
7 Aug 2012
Free educational tools available for diagnosis, treatment of lupus
Free educational resources are available through the American College of Rheumatology's Lupus Initiative to reduce health disparities for patients disproportionately affected by lupus based on race, ethnicity and gender.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/09/18/9.htm
18 Sep 2012
PCORI now accepting applications
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is accepting applications for its current advisory panels until Monday, March 4.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/02/26/8.htm
26 Feb 2013
Changes to Medicaid divide states, doctors
States get the final say in whether to expand their Medicaid programs and how to accomplish that. The resulting disparities have prompted physicians to get involved to secure access for their patients and funding for themselves, their practices and their hospitals.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/10/medicaid.htm
1 Oct 2013
ACP Internist is now online and coming to your mailbox
The October issue of ACP Internist is online, featuring stories on how the states have become divided over Medicaid and how internists can handle diabetic foot care.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/10/08/8.htm
8 Oct 2013
Cervical cancer rates in older women may be higher than previously thought
Older women's rates of cervical cancer are significantly higher than previously thought, because past analyses have not adjusted for the prevalence of hysterectomy in this population, a new study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/05/13/5.htm
13 May 2014
Consider country, culture when caring for Latino patients
Cultural competency can conquer concerns about cultural barriers, said a panel of experts who discussed how to approach and manage patients in the Latino community.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/06/cultural.htm
1 Jun 2014
Understand patient expectations as part of a negotiation
Both physicians and patients have a role in developing good communication.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/communication.htm
1 Jul 2014
ACP submits statement on the use of race in university admissions
A federal court ruled July 15 that race can be taken into consideration in university admissions.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/29/10.htm
29 Jul 2014
Transitioning from health care to a broader domain of services
Clinicians and the organizations in which they practice are moving beyond episode-based health care delivery and into the communities in which they exist, delivering services that would normally seem outside the scope of medical practice.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/09/residents.htm
1 Sep 2014