Health policy researcher John E. Wennberg

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Health policy researcher John E. Wennberg believes that outcomes research and clinical guidelines should play a part in health care reform. However, the methodology of such research is complex, includes many variables and must be carefully analyzed before judgments are made on the quality of a particular provider. In addition, he advocates treatment preference trials, which are clinical trials in which a patient is given a choice of treatments and then carefully monitored to produce clinical data on the treatment.

Analysis, Planning, Interview, Medical research, Medical policy, Health policy, Wennberg, John E.

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Linda Bremner: founder, Love Letters Inc

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Linda Bremner founded Love Letters Inc after her own son died of terminal cancer at the age of sixteen. Bremner had been writing to her son as his secret pal since he was an eight-year-old cancer patient who delighted in receiving mail. Her Chicago, IL, organization mails about 4,000 to 7,000 cards and packages every month, but Love Letters Inc is in great need of funds to pay for postage. Names of ill children continue to arrive from around the country.

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations, Nonprofit Institutions, Services, Nonprofit organizations, Terminally ill children, Love Letters Inc.

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On ambulatory care's coattails, prevention gets its due

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Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, NC, and a local group are working together to expand access to primary and preventive care in the city. Guilford County was withdrawing from providing health services beyond what was mandated by the state. Moses H. Cone and Greensboro Urban Ministry are in the process of turning a part-time clinic into a full-time one with the hospital providing funds assist in its operation.

General medical & surgical hospitals, Management, Medical care utilization, Hospitals, Preventive health services, Preventive medicine, Hospital administration, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital (Greensboro, North Carolina)

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