Growing concern about the rapid emergence of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, as well as beta-lactamase-mediated resistance among Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis, has lead to reconsideration of the management of acute otitis media in children. Acute otitis media is...

Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have poor survival prospects, as most have advanced disease at diagnosis. Chemotherapy can be used to treat these patients if their performance status is good, although there are geographical differences in chemotherapy use. Combination...

Influenza remains a significant cause of worldwide morbidity and mortality. With the availability of new effective antivirals for the treatment of influenza, early diagnosis of the disease will become increasingly important for effective disease management. Although investigators are generally...

Healthcare professionals are increasingly held accountable for the standards of care that they provide. The focus of control for this accountability can be either internal or external activity to the professional body and can use implicit or explicit quality assessment techniques. The science of...

Purpose: To examine factors associated with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor (statin) management and the effect of therapeutic modifications on patients' abilities to reach their low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) goal in a sample of managed care enrollees. Methods: This retrospective...

Most pharmacoeconomic studies of mycophenolate mofetil have focused on its use as part of maintenance immunosuppression for renal transplantation, involving short-term (3-12 months) time frames. In general, mycophenolate mofetil reduced the treatment costs for rejection episodes and graft...

Increasingly, primary care physicians are being given budgets based on capitation formulae in the belief that such budgets will be fairer than budgets based on the historical utilization of funds. A second reason for giving primary care physicians budgets based on capitation formulae is that...

Over the last 2 decades, South Australians who live with severe and/or profound disability have been afforded greater support to enable them to lead good-quality lives in the general community. South Australia has been progressively dispensing with institutional accommodation in favor of various...

The rapid expansion of disease management continues. A multitude of stakeholders and marketplaces are now involved in providing cost-effective quality healthcare for individuals and populations. To help you keep up-to-date with the very latest developments in disease management, this section of...

Tobacco use is not only the chief preventable cause of death, but it is also a very important contributor to the cause or complications of most chronic diseases. Therefore, facilitating smoking cessation should be very important to more effective disease management. Well-accepted, evidence-based...