Trauma registries: Tarnished gold.
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S Lowenstein
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Coping with the suicidal elderly: a physician's guide.
Advancing age is associated with a markedly increased risk of suicide. In the United States, one fourth of all suicides are carried out by citizens age 60 or older. The majority of American elders who commit suicide use a firearm to do so. Most suicidal elders look to their primary care physician for help, although they may not directly express their plan. Therefore, physicians must be alert to clues. By far the principal risk factor for suicide is major depression. The risk is heightened by recent losses, alcohol or drug abuse, psychosis, cognitive decline, and chronic disease. Hopelessness, anhedonia, self-reproach, guilt, and a formed lethal plan are signs of a life-threatening suicidal crisis which requires urgent intervention. Physicians must act decisively in recognition of the fact that suicidality is a transient, treatable condition.
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A research paradigm for severity for illness: issues for the diagnosis-related group system.
The new Medicare Prospective Payment System has been challenged with regard to its fairness in reimbursing hospitals adequately, given the true resource needs in caring for patients. Most of these criticisms are now labelled as issues about adjustments for severity of illness. Critics point to the large amount of unexplained variation in charges and length of stay within the existing DRG's as indirect support for their contentions about inadequate adjustments. A paradigm is presented which argues that the key questions on the types of severity of illness measures to be utilized in future refinements of DRG's revolve around the extent and type of data which can feasibly be included in any workable reimbursement approach. A paradigm is presented on how these questions about information define a series of research options in the severity of illness arena.
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