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...Anne R. Somers Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Position Paper The High Cost of Health Care for the Elderly: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Some Suggestions for Therapy Anne R. Sorners, College of Medicine...

...Cynthia D. Mulrow; Kathleen N. Lohr When judging the benefits and harms of health care and predicting patient prognosis, clinicians, researchers, and others must consider many types of evidence. Medical research evidence is part of the required knowledge base,and practitioners of evidence-based...

... theory, but which allows tolerance, within limits, for a possible range of decisions, would appear to offer more reasonable decisions. However, any decision must be based on good facts and accurate prognosis. Pending the availability of medical records on Baby Jane Doe, judgment of the decisions made...

...- standing, and perhaps from the general public understanding, about how the coun- seling of the parents was handled. In the first place, I was not the person to offer the prognosis to the family. The prognosis for this child was offered to the family by a private neurosurgeon who had transferred...

... in establishing policies for their institutions. Making medical decisions The problem. Medical decisions about handicapped newborns are difficult pri- marily because there is uncertainty about the net benefits of treatment. Frequently, diagnosis and prognosis are uncertain, and the best interest...

...) to formulate a prognosis for the future of all categorical MCH programs under the aegis of block-grant funding; (2) to analyze the potential for program consolidation of now-separate MCH services; and (3) to identify alternative sources of funding, either public or private, that may help to absorb...

... viewpoint. Physicians tend to use different concepts and view ordinary treatment as that which is customary or usual for a disease. l6 In a survey of physicians, Diana Crane found that they emphasized prognosis and deficit or dysfunc- tion in making decisions about withholding or terminating...

... Angeles Times who had no other regular source of information about the Baby Jane Doe case would at the very least have been puzzled about the infant’s condition and prognosis, especially with respect to her potential quality of life. The New York Times also reported on 6 November, both...

..., 1993–1995. P70-64. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September. Einhorn , Cheryl Strauss. 1998 . Prognosis, Positive: Some Nursing Home Stocks May Be On the Road to Recovery. Barron’s, 3 August, 20–21. General Accounting Office (GAO). 1997 . Employment Based Health Insurance...

... and with which physicians are unfamiliar, make their way into hospital charts. 22. Readers may recall the disappointing results of interventions in the well-known SUPPORT study (Study to Understand Prognosis and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment), in which nurse specialists facilitated...

... prognosis and the true utility of a resuscitation. The consequence of this triumph of technology over discourse is a transfer of the patient to the highly monitored intensive care unit, where she remains in a coma on a ventilator. Despite the advanced technology used on her behalf, most...

... about handicapped newborns. A brief rejoinder by George Newman follows Dr. Freeman’s paper. Dr. Newman insists that he and his colleagues were not too pessimistic in their prognosis for the baby. Three of the authors discuss subjects which are frequently ignored in discus- sions about treating...

...: Anchor. Hollingshead, August, and Frederick Redlich. 1958 . Social Class and Mental Illness. New York: Wiley. Kotelchuck , David , ed. 1976 . Prognosis Negative: Crisis in the Health Care System. New York: Vintage. Mechanic , David . 1962 . The Concept of Illness Behavior. Journal...

... to privacy the hook on which to hang its legal decision. Citing significant Supreme Court decisions it found that theon state’s privacy, interest55 in preserving life weakens, and the individual’s right to privacy grows “as the degree of bodily invasion increases and the prognosis dims...

... Studies in Health Economics: Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Economics of Health, ed. H. E. Klarman. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Mulcahy , R. , L. Daly, and I. Graham, et al. 1981 . Unstable Angina: Natural History and Determinants of Prognosis. American Journal...

.... Patricia M. Danzon. Washington, DC: AEI, 1999. 60 pp. $9.95 paper. Health Care Delivery Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care. Nicholas A. Christakis. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999. 350 pp. $30.00 cloth. Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving...

... Prognosis for the Social Security Act’s Civil Immunity Provision.” Mississippi Law Journal 47:621- 44, Summer, 1976. Harlan, T. “Virginia’s New Medical Malpractice Review Panel and Some Questions It Raises.” University of Richmond Law Review 11:51-68, Fall, 1976. “Hospital’s...

... and tennis was diagnosed and treated for early- detected prostate cancer and has a very good prognosis for full recovery. In speaking with me, he congratulated himself that he had just “squeaked by” the age seventy prohibition on surgery for this condition imposed by 1072 Journal of Health Politics...

....” The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly / Health and Society 55 : 193 -232, Spring, 1977 . “Wright v. Central Du Page Hospital Association [(Ill) 347 NE 2d 736]: A Grim Prognosis for Medical Malpractice Review Panels?” South Dakota Law Review 22 : 461 -79, Spring, 1977 . Professions and Manpower...

...–724. Brandon , Karen . 1995 . Oregon Health Plan Finds Success, But Prognosis for ’95 Is Uncertain. Chicago Tribune, 4 February, A1. Califano Jr. Joseph A. 1992 . Rationing Health Care: The Unnecessary Solution. University of Pennsylvania Law Review 140 ( 5 ): 1525 -1538...