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Association of hospice agency profit status with patient diagnosis, location of care, and length of stay. |
Wachterman MW, Marcantonio ER, Davis RB, McCarthy EP. |
Association of Hospice Profit Status with Diagnosis, Location, and Length of Stay Background: Medicare's per diem reimbursement scheme may incentivize hospices to select patients with longer expect... |
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Automated symptom alerts reduce postoperative symptom severity after cancer surgery: a randomized controlled clinical trial. |
Cleeland CS, Wang XS, Shi Q, et al. |
Supporting Clinical Care with Real-time Patient Reported Symptom Information Background: Electronic patient interfaces allow real-time monitoring of patient symptoms at the point of care. Can these a... |
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Enhancing patient-provider communication with the electronic self-report assessment for cancer: a randomized trial. |
Berry DL, Blumenstein BA, Halpenny B, et al. |
Supporting Clinical Care with Real-time Patient Reported Symptom Information Background: Electronic patient interfaces allow real-time monitoring of patient symptoms at the point of care. Can these a... |
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Tanezumab for the treatment of pain from osteoarthritis of the knee. |
Lane NE, Schnitzer TJ, Birbara CA, Mokhtarani M, Shelton DL, Smith MD, Brown MT. |
Tanezumab for Osteoarthritis Pain of the Knee Background: Nerve growth factor modulates pain through nociceptor sensitization.1-2 How safe and effective is tanezumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody ... |
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Decrease in depression symptoms is associated with longer survival in patients with metastatic breast cancer: a secondary analysis. |
Giese-Davis J, Collie K, Rancourt KM, Neri E, Kraemer HC, Spiegel D. |
Treating Depression Improves Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients Background: Presence of depression (both depressive symptoms and major depression) increases mortality rates in cancer patie... |
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