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Report examines Medicaid’s role in community-based care for dual eligibles
Some low-income seniors who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid — the dual eligibles — have the chance to age…
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Be prepared to cover medical research claims during election season
As the race toward the 2016 election gradually takes over more and more media coverage, Americans’ attention will be pulled…
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Investigative series on troubling death casts a wider net over hospice care
A well-known, prominent California physician. Allegations of a suspicious death. Family feuds. A recovering addict and possible affair. Elder abuse.…
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IOM spotlights diagnostic errors, continues call to improve patient safety
Efforts to improve health care quality and safety are mostly missing one significant source of concern: diagnostic errors, according to…
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Two government reports on the uninsured show trend toward historic lows
For the past two months, new data on the rate of the uninsured in the United States have reached what…
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Tips on using Excel to get a handle on large data files
In the age of big data and large datasets available through the CDC, the NIH, and other entities, it helps…
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First class of AHCJ Comparative Effectiveness Research Fellows named
Twelve journalists have been chosen for the inaugural class of the AHCJ Fellowship on Comparative Effectiveness Research. The fellowship program…
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Reporter explains how he turned a troubling hospice death into an investigative series
Charles Piller “An Unquiet Death,” my five-part investigative narrative that appeared in August in The Sacramento Bee, looked into the…
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Experts recommend cognitive decline screening for everyone over age 70
World experts in aging for the first time are recommending that everyone age 70 and older have routine brain health…
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Talking ’bout the next generation: Webcast to look at millennials and population growth
Update: This webcast has been postponed. We will update with a new date and time ASAP. OK, I just realized…
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