Is the Patient Getting Worse?

Is the Patient Getting Worse?

Glaucoma care today is often simplified into all or nothing terms with the assumption that if the patient's intraocular pressure (IOP) is above a certain level, glaucomatous disease will progress and when the IOP is lowered to below a threshold, no further progression will occur. This dogma is largely the result of limitations in the resolution of tools currently available to judge progression....

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

Canada's organ shortage is severe and getting worse.

LA TRANSPLANTATION D’ORGANES HUMAINS VITAUX SAUVE LA VIE de quelque 1500 Canadiens par année, ou l’améliore de façon spectaculaire. Ces interventions délicates, qui ne sont plus expérimentales, évitent aussi au système de soins de santé des millions de dollars de frais d’hospitalisation, de dialyse et autres. Or, malgré l’appui général de la population, le Canada enregistre un des taux les plus...

Getting worse: the stigmatization of obese children.

OBJECTIVE The prevalence of childhood obesity more than doubled in the period from 1961 to 2001. We replicated a 1961 study of stigma in childhood obesity to see what effect this increased prevalence has had on this stigma. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Participants included 458 5th- and 6th-grade children attending upper-middle and lower-middle income U.S. public schools. Children ranked s...

Health trends in the elderly population: getting better and getting worse.

Health trends in the fastest growing sector of the population, the oldest old, have received much attention during the past decade because of the rising costs of medical and long-term care. Many studies have suggested a compression of morbidity in this sector, implying that the future care needs of elderly people will not follow the demographic prognoses. Most of these studies have used health ...