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This study was conducted to determine whether response rate to capecitabine is similar in elderly patients with MBC and to evaluate its toxicity profile. Of the 10 patients with a median age of 77...

On June 5, results of a survey conducted by the Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups and Northwestern University were announced at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting...

Medication reconciliation is a process that has received increased attention since inclusion by the Joint Commission as a National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) in 2005.

The Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations incorporated medication reconciliation into the National Patient SafetyGoals (NPSG)...

It has been said that healthcare is in the early stages of a digital revolution. The prescription pad is being replaced by the Blackberry; medical journals and manuals have transitioned to the PDA...

In a new and ironic twist, a growing number of individuals are now legally protecting themselves from their doctors. The idea may be surprising, but with rapidly disappearing...

It's been possible to avoid the iPhone media barrage in the wake of Apple's recent announcement at Macworld earlier this year.

One of the most significant differences between healthcare providers and Wall Street professionals is that the bankers on Wall Street seem to have an intrinsic understanding that in order to...

On October 18-20, 2004, hundreds of top-level executives from the medical device, biotech, and pharmaceutical industries, entrepreneurs and investors from all across the globe, and thought leaders...

MDNG: Which patients should get a kidney stone metabolic workup? Why is this significant? GP: We try to base the need for a comprehensive metabolic evaluation on a patient's risk for kidney stone...

Your children and their friends won't stop talking about them. Your patients are using them in the waiting room. In all likelihood you've seen the frenetic television commercials and...

MedCalc 3000 is a unique computerized medical tool set that encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets, and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by...

One of the first things most clients ask when we begin mapping out an asset protection plan is whether they should "go offshore." In this context, they're not referring to a resort in the Caribbean...

Virtual patient technology got its start in 1989, when the National Library of Medicine initiated the Visible Human Project with the goal of creating anatomically detailed, 3D representations of...

To many people, credit card fraud is something that happens when a wallet is lost or stolen, identity theft occurs only in Sandra Bullock movies, and phishing is some kind of reference to a jam...

A pressing question physicians must answer these days is what to do about the cost of malpractice insurance premiums. For many physicians squeezed by Medicare and HMO cost cutting, malpractice...

Coding for Medicare and other third-party payors is based on Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), a publication of the American Medical Association. It is a standardized list of descriptive terms...

While it has become fashionable among pundits to speak of the trend toward evidence- based medicine (EBM) in modern healthcare practice as something of a paradigm shift, new and revolutionary, this...

Metcalfe's Law, as cited by Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet, states that "the value of a communication system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system. For...

Since the 1970s, medical experts have been conducting studies, dispensing surveys, and performing hours of research in an attempt to make sense out of the enigma that is patient compliance or more...

Modifications to the HIPAA privacy rule, published by HHS in August 2002, give patients the right to "inspect, copy and, in some cases, amend their medical records" if information is incorrect...