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Medicaid. --- Group medical practice --- Managed care plans (Medical care) --- Accreditation --- Evaluation.

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This quick reference guide for medical students and residents presents over sixty clinical case studies of major neurological conditions and their associated neuroimaging characteristics. A primer on the fundamental physics which underlie neuroimaging techniques is also provided. The content is organized by pathology type and the structure of every topic is similar to help the reader develop his or her thinking process in a stepwise fashion and to provide a rational approach to imaging interpretation.    Neuroradiology in Clinical Practice is aimed at medical students and residents doing their rotations in neurology, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and family medicine, but will also be useful for allied health professionals, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other primary medical care providers.

Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Radiology, MRI, Ultrasonography & Medical Physics --- Nervous system --- Radiography. --- Practice. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Neuroradiography --- Neuroradiology --- Medicine. --- Neuroradiology. --- Neurology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Diseases --- Radiology, Medical. --- Neuropsychiatry --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Neurology . --- Imaging.

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This book collects several contributions, written both by statisticians and medical doctors, which focus on the identification of new diagnostic, therapeutic and organizational strategies in order to improve the occurrence of clinical outcomes for Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) patients. The work is structured in two different parts: the first one is focused on cooperative project mainly on statistical analysis of large clinical and administrative databases; the second one faces the development of innovative diagnostic techniques, with specific reference to genetic and proteomic, and the evolution of new imaging techniques for the early identification of patients at major risk of thrombotic, arrhythmic complications and at risk of poor revascularization.

Cardiology. --- Heart -- Diseases -- Diagnosis. --- Heart -- Diseases -- Statistics. --- Heart -- Diseases -- Treatment. --- Practice of medicine. --- Coronary heart disease --- Risk --- Data Collection --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Myocardial Ischemia --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Heart Diseases --- Probability --- Cardiovascular Diseases --- Statistics as Topic --- Investigative Techniques --- Diseases --- Diagnosis --- Acute Coronary Syndrome --- Risk Factors --- Registries --- Mathematics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Mathematical Statistics --- Heart --- Diagnosis. --- Treatment. --- Statistics. --- Health administration. --- Health economics. --- Medical economics. --- Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences. --- Health Economics. --- Health Administration. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Economics, Medical --- Health --- Health economics --- Hygiene --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Internal medicine --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Econometrics --- Economic aspects --- Statistics .

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Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer-an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cultural analysis and memoir, this stunningly original book explores why cancer remains so confounding, despite the billions of dollars spent in the search for a cure. Amidst furious debates over its causes and treatments, scientists generate reams of data-information that ultimately obscures as much as it clarifies. Award-winning anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain deftly unscrambles the high stakes of the resulting confusion. Expertly reading across a range of material that includes history, oncology, law, economics, and literature, Jain explains how a national culture that simultaneously aims to deny, profit from, and cure cancer entraps us in a state of paradox-one that makes the world of cancer virtually impossible to navigate for doctors, patients, caretakers, and policy makers alike. This chronicle, burning with urgency and substance leavened with brio and wit, offers a lucid guide to understanding and navigating the quicksand of uncertainty at the heart of cancer. Malignant vitally shifts the terms of an epic battle we have been losing for decades: the war on cancer.

Cancer --- Carcinogens --- Cancer causing agents --- Carcinogenic agents --- Oncogens --- Hazardous substances --- Cancers --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Tumors --- Government policy --- Research --- Risk factors --- Social science --- Anthropology --- General. --- anthropological study. --- autobiography. --- biography. --- cancer. --- cultural analysis. --- cultural commentary. --- cure cancer. --- cure for cancer. --- diagnosis. --- disease. --- economics. --- engaging. --- furious debates. --- health and medicine. --- health policy. --- health. --- human condition. --- illness and diseases. --- illness. --- invasive cancer. --- law. --- life changes. --- medical anthropology. --- medical conditions. --- medical politics. --- medical practice. --- memoir. --- national culture. --- oncology. --- policy makers. --- public health. --- social science. --- social sciences. --- social theory. --- sociology. --- study of medicine.

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Operations research tools are ideally suited to providing solutions and insights for the many problems health policy-maker's face. Indeed, a growing body of literature on health policy analysis, based on operations research methods, has emerged to address the problems mentioned above and several others. The research in this field is often multi-disciplinary, being conducted by teams that include not only operations researchers but also clinicians, economists and policy analysts. The research is also often very applied, focusing on a specific question driven by a decision-maker and many times yielding a tool to assist in future decisions. The goal of this volume was to bring together a group of papers by leading experts that could showcase the current state of the field of operations research applied to health-care policy. There are 18 chapters that illustrate the breadth of this field. The chapters use a variety of techniques, including classical operations research tools, such as optimization, queuing theory, and discrete event simulation, as well as statistics, epidemic models and decision-analytic models. The book spans the field and includes work that ranges from highly conceptual to highly applied. An example of the former is the chapter by Kimmel and Schackman on building policy models, and an example of the latter is the chapter by Coyle and colleagues on developing a Markov model for use by an organization in Ontario that makes recommendations about the funding of new drugs. The book also includes a mix of review chapters, such as the chapter by Hutton on public health response to influenza outbreaks, and original research, such as the paper by Blake and colleagues analyzing a decision by Canadian Blood Services to consolidate services.  This volume could provide an excellent introduction to the field of operations research applied to health-care policy, and it could also serve as an introduction to new areas for researchers already familiar with the topic. The book is divided into six sections. The first section contains two chapters that describe several different applications of operations research in health policy and provide an excellent overview of the field. Sections 2 to 4 present policy models in three focused areas.  Section 5 contains two chapters on conceptualizing and building policy models. The book concludes in Section 6 with two chapters describing work that was done with policy-makers and presenting insights gained from working directly with policy-makers.

Operations research. --- Medical policy --- Investigative Techniques --- Public Policy --- Social Control, Formal --- Research --- Social Control Policies --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Science --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Policy --- Health Care --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Operations Research --- Health Policy --- Models, Theoretical --- Policy Making --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Management Theory --- Mathematical models. --- Decision making. --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Government policy --- Business. --- Health administration. --- Public finance. --- Business and Management. --- Operation Research/Decision Theory. --- Public Economics. --- Health Administration. --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- System theory --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Practice of medicine. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Currency question --- Public finances --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Decision making