DESCRIPTION: Update of the 2003 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation on screening for high blood pressure in children and adolescents. METHODS: The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on screening and diagnostic accuracy of screening tests for blood pressure in children and adolescents, the effectiveness and harms of treatment of screendetected primary childhood hypertension, an...

objectives: the assessment of the elderly’s health condition can help to design interventional studies to promote their satisfaction and quality of delivered medical services. we intended to evaluate health priorities of the aged population of minoodasht district. methods & materials: the data were collected from 119 people aged 60 or over through door-to-door structured interviews containing 2...

CONTEXT More than 45 million individuals in the United States lack health insurance, potentially limiting their access to and use of appropriate health care services. Although the uninsured comprise a range of income levels, little attention has been directed at higher-income uninsured adults and their patterns of care. OBJECTIVE To examine whether having higher income attenuates the associat...

BACKGROUND Reports of higher quality care by higher-volume secondary care providers have fuelled a shift of services from smaller provider units to larger hospitals and units. In the United Kingdom, most patients are managed in primary care. Hence if larger practices provide better quality of care; this would have important implications for the future organization of primary care services. We e...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world, affecting not only industrialized but, above all, low- and middle-income countries, where it has overtaken infectious diseases as the first cause of death and its impact threatens social and economic development. The increased prevalence of cardiovascular disease in recent years together with projected mortality for the coming d...

2151 Episode-based, “bundled” payments have come to the forefront of the national discussion on combating rising healthcare costs. In the currently dominant fee-for-service model for reimbursement, hospitals, physicians, and postacute care providers file distinct claims and are paid separately for provided services even when they are related to a single episode of care. However, this approach t...

Rapid access to medical treatment is a key determinant of outcomes for cardiovascular events. Emergency medical services (EMS) play an important role in delivering early treatment for acute cardiovascular events. Attention has increased on the potential for EMS data to contribute to our understanding of prehospital treatment. Maine recently began to explore the possible role of EMS data in card...

introduction: urbanization, establishment of sedentary life style and unhealthy diet in association with environmental stress has led the cardiovascular risk factors to prevail in the metropolitan city of tehran. survey of lifestyle related cardiovascular risk factors is one of the priorities of tehran university population laboratory in the 17th zone of tehran. methods:1573 inhabitants of 17th...