American Medical News 1992 Deborah Shelton Pinkney - Abstracts

American Medical News 1992 Deborah Shelton Pinkney
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An outspoken leader vacates his high-profile AMA post. (former American Medical Association leader Howard L. Lang)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Community centers show acute care promise; payment a problem. (Mental Health Care Cost Crunch)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Doctors told to take charge of patient outcomes data.HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Economy squeezes hospital capital improvements.HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Fake patients cost hospitals time and money. (includes related article on spotting drug addicts)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Feds cancel plan to open VA hospitals to the public. (Senate votes to prohibit funding of Rural Health Care Initiative)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Financial incentives suggested to gain transplant organs. (includes article about efforts to increase donations by minorities)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Fla. panel: keep TB hospital open - but at half capacity. (Florida's Tuberculosis Alternative Care Task Force, A.G. Holley State Hospital)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Health, community leaders seek more diabetes funds. (House Select Committee on Aging hearing)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Humphry asks physicians' help in suicide rights battle. (suicide manual author, Derek Humphry; physician-assisted suicide)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
IG study: hospitals owe Medicare overpayments. (Health and Human Services Inspector General Richard P. Kusserow)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
IRS examining salary packages at non-profit hospitals.HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Nursing centers treating more and more Americans: study shows clinics expanding access to care. (National League of Nursing study)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Physicians and hospitals hail N.Y. reimbursement ruling. (New York state)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Prozac's pros and cons: suicide experts debate merits of the most prescribed antidepressant.HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Report details increased cost shifting by hospitals.HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Report: more hospitals do poorly on quality measures. (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's report indicates hospital quality declined in the 1980s)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Selling 'excellence': public hospitals trying to buck bad image.HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Some psychiatrists are taking therapy on the road. (physician house calls)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Some still want out, but House seeks data bank changes. (American Medical Association's House of Delegates, National Practitioner Data Bank)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Sparing the rod: activist physicians argue that school punishments reinforce our nation's culture of violence. (includes related article on How to Help Prevent Violence)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Staying afloat: how two rural hospitals are succeeding in tough times. (Upper Valley Medical Centers, Troy, Ohio; West River Regional Medical Center, Hettinger, North Dakota)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Surge in outpatient surgery brings end to inpatient dominance. (American Hospital Association report)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
Why hospitals hate the 'hit list': the lament of the 'bottom 22.' (Medicare Mortality Muddle)(Health Care Financing Administration's report on hospital mortality among Medicare patients)HealthDeborah Shelton Pinkney
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