Our Goal of Comprehensive Medical Care Including Diversity

3. Foundations of Care and Comprehensive Medical Evaluation.

The foundations of care include self-management education, nutrition, counseling, physical activity, smoking cessation, immunizations, psychosocial care, and medications (covered in other sections). The comprehensive medical evaluation includes the initial and ongoing evaluations, assessment of complications, management of comorbid conditions, and engagement of the patient throughout the process.

How Our Current Medical Care System Fails People With Diabetes

M any randomized controlled intervention trials have demonstrated that lowering glycemia (1,2), LDL cholesterol (3), and blood pressure (4) will markedly benefit the complications from diabetes. Based on these data, the American Diabetes Association has recommended the following targets for glycemic, lipid, and blood pressure outcome measures, A1C 7.0%, LDL cholesterol 100 mg/dl, and blood pres...

A Comprehensive Approach to Adaptive Processing Both on Transmit and Receive including Presence of Waveform Diversity

Comprehensive abortion care service at Kathmandu Medical College--an experience.

INTRODUCTION His Majesty's Government amended the Nepal Criminal Code (Muluki Ain)--for Liberalising abortion law in the month of Chaitra 2058 (March 2002) and Royal Assent was given on 10th Asoj 2059 (27th September 2002). Accordingly Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) Services was initiated in the country. Kathmandu Medical College after enlisting with Ministry of Health started this service f...

Comprehensive epilepsy care: Contributions from para-medical professionals

Comprehensive epilepsy care is synonymous with treatment conducted by multi-disciplinary team including medical specialists as well as non-medical professionals. A comparative study between epilepsy centers in Europe and Asia showed that in Asia, the medical specialists saw more patients per day in the ambulatory clinic, and there were more personal contact with patients per year than in Europe...