April 2009

Within the Veterans Affairs system, diabetes performance measures were similar in patients who received chronic opioid therapy and in those who did not.

This article describes a program to coordinate the care of an inner-city uninsured population at an academic health center.

An observational study of 42 successful programs to improve primary care management of cardiovascular risk showed the impact of a strong primary care system.

This report shows that a successful, cost-effective statin switch program can be implemented by a large physician group via a centralized, collaborative process.

This cost-utility analysis compares the cost-effectiveness of salmeterol, fluticasone propionate, combination salmeterolfluticasone, and no maintenance therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Two standardized rating scales appeared to be valid and reliable for use at admission and possibly follow-up in a child psychiatry system of care.

This study describes the social and communicative strategies pharmaceutical companies use to influence NSAID prescribing behaviors and elicits physicians' perceptions and counterbalances to these strategies.