The Uninsured Emergency Medicine's Challenge to Our Political Leaders

Are sample medicines hurting the uninsured?

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical representatives often give sample medications to physicians for distribution to patients. In chronic conditions such as hypertension, this practice can contribute to unnecessary medication changes, gaps in treatment, and inferior control of disease. The objective of the current study was to explore associations between use of free sample medicine, hypertension, and sou...

Emergency Department Utilization of the Intermittently Uninsured∗

Emergency Departments (EDs) represent the only federally mandated site for health care in the United States. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) mandates that all individuals presenting to EDs in the United States receive stabilizing care for their condition, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. EDs are a unique practice setting, in that they provide a ful...

A political approach to the role of NPD project leaders

INTRODUCTION Over the last twenty years new product development (NPD) has become an important aspect of competition between firms (Brown & Eisenhardt, 1995) and a growing area of research in the fields of management, strategy and marketing (Song & Montoya-Weiss, 2001). Studies have identified a number of factors that impact NPD performance, including appropriate corporate strategy and organizat...

The Conditional Importance of Political Leaders

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