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Issue Date: December 2004
Three Obstacles Hinder Efforts to Improve Quality
This editorial discusses three main obstacles cited by the Institute of Medicine as blocking nationwide health care quality improvement: resistance to change, lack of financial incentives for health professionals, and slowness in shifting to a patient-centered system.
Initiatives Should Focus on Physician-Patient Relationship
This article discusses how pay-for-performance initiatives are affecting quality improvement in health care.
AF Guidelines: New Research Influences Practice and Revisions
This article discusses clinical research that has occurred since the publication in 2001 of the ACC/AHA/ESC Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation, and how that research might impact the revisions to those guidelines.
Rate vs. Rhythm Control: Properly Applying AFFIRM Findings
This article discusses some of the issues physicians should consider relating to the AFFIRM findings and conclusions when treating patients with atrial fibrillation.
EMRs Can Help Improve Quality
Integrating Physicians, Hospitals Would Help Solve Many Problems
This article argues that integration between hospitals and specialists is growing, and that hospitals are partnering with specialists to enhance their bottom line.
Physician Takes Steps to Get Paid on Time
This editorial discusses how an internist in Leesburg, Va., has honed his accounts receivable processes in order to ensure that all services are billed for, no bills are lost, and rebillings are sent immediately.
HSAs Aim to Gain Momentum in 2005
This article discusses how consumer-driven health care is continuing to take hold in the market, including health savings accounts. It also discusses how the role of physicians will change as more patients enroll in high-deductible health plans.
Steering Clear of Malpractice
This article discusses steps physicians can take to help them avoid facing a malpractice claim.
3 Find Ways to Renew Love of Medicine
This article discusses how three physicians who were dissatisfied with how they were practicing medicine made changes that "reignited the passion they had when they entered medicine."
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