The Federal Trade Commission provided new guidance on its standards for “clinical integration” in its 2006 Advisory Opinion to Suburban Health Organization, Inc., stating that, if a network of competing physicians meets the FTC’s clinical integration standards, it may negotiate with a managed care organization (MCO) on behalf of its physician members without fear of a federal Antitrust prosecut...

The purpose of this paper is to share the lessons learnt from a clinical experience that involved a woman who developed difficulties passing urine after the birth of her second child. Maximising learning is a crucial aspect of health professionals' work in an increasingly litigious society where the NHS regularly receives negative publicity and staff fear prosecution (Department of Health, 2001).

This final rule implements section 14 of Public Law 100-93, the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987, by specifying various payment practices which, although potentially capable of inducing referrals of business under Medicare or a State health care program, will be protected from criminal prosecution or civil sanctions under the anti-kickback provisions of the statute.

The aim of this paper is to show the application of a Thesaurus based approach to several issues of interest for an Italian Publishing House. Final experimental results reveal good performance in terms of rate of retrieval and recall and then encourage the prosecution of the multidisciplinary research.