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Anchor lead: Helping manage health care costs is something called ‘high value care,’ Elizabeth Tracey reports Health care costs too much. That’s an inescapable fact, and one that may be helped by an approach called ‘high value care.’ Paul Rothman, …
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This week’s topics include Medicare spending on frail elderly, resorbable stents, men with HPV, and procalcitonin to assess antibiotic need. Program notes: 0:41 Looking at procalcitonin to determine antibiotic use 1:42 Improve or worsen survival 2:40 Point of care testing …
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Anchor lead: There is a role for opioid medications in managing some chronic pain, Elizabeth Tracey reports Now that federal authorities are so focused on curtailing the opioid epidemic, does that mean that there’s no place for these medicines in …
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Anchor lead: Helping people in chronic pain requires a multipronged approach, Elizabeth Tracey reports Chronic pain is complicated to manage, and now that opioids are being tightly controlled, new approaches are needed. Michael Clark, a pain expert who spoke at …
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Anchor lead: How can pain be managed in the wake of the opioid crisis? Elizabeth Tracey reports Now that many clinicians are reluctant to prescribe opioid medications, what options are available for those in chronic pain? Michael Clark, a pain …
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Anchor lead: Can a new device replace the traditional gastric bypass surgery? Elizabeth Tracey reports A device to treat obesity known as an ‘Endobarrier’ is producing good results in helping people lose weight and manage their diabetes better, a study …
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Anchor lead: What can following people for 12 years tell us about bariatric surgery? Elizabeth Tracey reports The most common type of weight loss, or bariatric surgery, known as gastric bypass, really does work, a study following about a thousand …
