Overcoming barriers to diabetic polyneuropathy management in primary care

Insomnia in primary care: overcoming diagnostic and treatment barriers. Introduction.

Overcoming barriers to care for hepatitis C.

* Data in the column on mortality are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death 1999–2009 (http://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html), and are based on hepatitis C infection (ICD-10, 17.1 and 18.2) declared as a contributing cause on the death certificate; data in the columns on transplantation are from the Organ Procurement a...

Overcoming Barriers to Palliative Care Consultation.

Palliative care consultations for patients with life-threatening illnesses provide benefits for the patients and their families as well as for the health care team. Patients have better quality of life and live longer but cost the health care system less. Still, many patients are not offered the opportunity to receive a palliative care consultation. Barriers to palliative care consultation for ...

Overcoming Obstacles: Barriers to Care in Fibromyalgia Treatment*

Many patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) receive inadequate or ineffective treatment, often because of multifactorial barriers that stand in the way of appropriate care. These barriers include the high prevalence of medical and psychiatric comorbidities in patients with FMS, the challenges inherent in diagnosing FMS, and the perception among many that FMS is not a “real” disease. Another ...

Overcoming Barriers to Effective Energy Management in Industrial Settings

Energy management for industry is many times an unspoken objective in organizations because it is desirable to reduce operating costs but often not important enough to justify a financial investment in managing. Unfortunately without a comprehensively planned and adequately funded management program, energy management efforts degrade into unsustainable or ineffective programs that are discarded...