Search results for "National Trends"
National Trends
Lacking a usual source of health care is associated with poorer control of chronic conditions and lower receipt of preventive services.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2008/05/trends.htm
1 May 2008
National Trends
The American Lung Association State of Tobacco Control 2008 report graded the 50 states and District of Columbia.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2009/03/trends.htm
1 Mar 2009
National Trends
The U.S. spent $2 trillion on health care (average: $6,700 per person), more of its Gross Domestic Product than any other developed country. What does it all buy?.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2009/01/trends.htm
1 Jan 2009
National Trends
Hospital costs for potentially preventable hospitalizations were about one of every 10 dollars of total hospital expenditures in 2006. The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality presented national data on rates and total costs of potentially preventable hospitalizations.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2009/10/trends.htm
1 Oct 2009
National Trends
People under the age of 65 who had been uninsured for more than 12 months or were uninsured for any time up to 12 months previously were much more likely to have forgone needed medical care than those insured continuously for the whole 12 months.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2009/04/trends.htm
1 Apr 2009
National Trends
Tracking the use of complementary and alternative medicines by age and condition.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2009/02/trends.htm
1 Feb 2009
Efforts to stop coprescribing of opioids, benzodiazepines helped, but problem ongoing
Two recent studies examined national trends in opioid and benzodiazepine prescribing, one finding that prescribing of these drugs together and separately dropped nationally, while another showing that opioid prescribing for patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) decreased in New York.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2022/06/07/4.htm
7 Jun 2022
Managing DOACs in primary care
Primary care physicians play a crucial role in ongoing anticoagulation management, including educating patients about the signs of venous thromboembolism.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2022/04/managing-doacs-in-primary-care.htm
1 Apr 2022
The never-ending push-pull of statins
Statins have proven their potential to reduce end-point outcomes, such as death from cardiovascular disease. But the drug class also has some downsides, and the pros and the cons become a close call.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2017/04/statins.htm
1 Apr 2017
Arthritis most common cause of slowed activity
An increasing percentage of adults experience limitation of activity as they age.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2008/10/trends.htm
1 Oct 2008