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Delicate but crucial: Advance care plans for people with early dementiaMedicare will soon pay for advance care planning discussions. A KPWHRI study is finding ways to ease the conversation for people with early Alzheimer’s.
Advancing community health improvement with ‘population dose’Dr. Allen Cheadle describes how CCHE’s new Healthy Dose Toolkit makes it easier to design and evaluate community health initiatives.
For mammography, radiologists do better without computer helpBased on a new BCSC study, Dr. Diana Buist tells of technology that adds cost to breast cancer screening—without improving outcomes. Dr. Marc Mora comments.
- Computer-aided detection does not improve breast cancer screening
CAD raises screening costs without benefit to patients and may miss cancers, large national BCSC study shows.
A new lowdown on high blood pressure?Recent results seem to support dramatically reducing blood pressure, says Dr. Bev Green, and might finally unify hypertension guidelines.
Measuring what matters: U.S. health care's vital signsBlood pressure, pulse, and temperature measure a body's functions. Dr. Eric Larson writes about how to measure the functions of the U.S. health care system.
Sometimes ‘less care’ feels like ‘better care’Mother and Group Health Research Institute project manager Casey Luce sees first-hand how research improved her daughter’s health care.
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