NATIONAL MEDICAL TREATMENT

National medical care spending.

Effective medical treatment of opiate addiction. National Consensus Development Panel on Effective Medical Treatment of Opiate Addiction.

OBJECTIVE To provide clinicians, patients, and the general public with a responsible assessment of the effective approaches to treat opiate dependence. PARTICIPANTS A nonfederal, nonadvocate, 12-member panel representing the fields of psychology, psychiatry, behavioral medicine, family medicine, drug abuse, epidemiology, and the public. In addition, 25 experts from these same fields presented...

The National Medical Knowledge Bank

This paper describes an advanced development program to create a medical information system called the National Medical Knowledge Bank (NMKB). This five year program is sponsored in part by a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Technology Program. The goals of the program, covering computer-assisted diagnosis, medical training, remote consultation, and medical...

Medication therapy in ambulatory medical care. National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1992.

OBJECTIVES This report describes medications provided or prescribed during ambulatory medical care visits in 1992. Total ambulatory care medication therapy combines data from office-based physicians, hospital outpatient departments (OPD's), and hospital emergency departments (ED's). Drug therapy is described along three dimensions: number of drugs provided or prescribed (drug mention), whether ...

Factors influencing medical treatment of heart failure patients in Spanish internal medicine departments: a national survey.

BACKGROUND The medical management of heart failure (HF) in clinical practice varies considerably by country and by medical specialty. AIM To assess the treatment of HF patients admitted to Internal Medicine departments, and to evaluate out-patient management prior to admission, by specialty. DESIGN Prospective cross-sectional multi-centre survey. METHODS Of 55 randomly selected Spanish ho...