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Anchor lead: Better measures are needed to assess patient safety, Elizabeth Tracey reports Patient safety could get a huge boost with better tools to measure it. That’s according to Peter Pronovost, a patient safety expert at Johns Hopkins and author …
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In this month's Cancer News Review, Kimmel Cancer Center director Bill Nelson comments on a link between marriage and cancer survival, as well as the high burden of cancer costs. Program notes: 0:20 Married people with cancer 1:20 Other things …
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This week’s topics include reducing suicide, CABG plus medicines for some people, risk following TIA, and metformin first for type 2 diabetes. Program notes: 0:32 Look at a multitude of strategies to prevent suicide 1:32 16 different services implemented 2:32 …
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Anchor lead: Much resistance has emerged regarding new rules for paying many cancer doctors, Elizabeth Tracey reports Oncologists who deliver chemotherapy in clinics and offices around the country are protesting new proposed rules from CMS, which handles payments under Medicare …
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Anchor lead: Many people with cancer report a toxic financial burden, Elizabeth Tracey reports Money looms large in the minds of a significant percentage of people with cancer, along with all the other concerns they have about their disease, a …
