Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Medscape Journal Scan - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, May 2004
"Journal Scan is the clinician's guide to the latest clinical research findings in the American Journal of Psychiatry, The Lancet, Archives of General Psychiatry, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Short summaries of feature articles include links to the article abstracts and full text when available." "med"  
  

Final Report: Wisconsin Child and Family Services Review
A US Department of Health and Human Services report (in Adobe Acrobat format), available through the Open Minds web site - "This document presents the findings of the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) for the State of Wisconsin. The CFSR assesses State child welfare agency performance with regard to seven child welfare outcomes in the areas of safety, permanency, and wellbeing and seven systemic factors pertaining to child welfare agency operations..."  
  

NAMI Campaign Releases Phase 1 Report
A report, in Adobe Acrobat format, on the Campaign for the Mind of America - "The goal of the Campaign for the Mind of America state pilot initiative has been to create and implement a political initiative to raise the awareness of mental illness, affect policies that support access to early intervention, treatment and services, and enhance the hope of recovery."  
  

Editorials Respond to Supreme Court Decision on Suing HMOs
Item in the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report reviewing press reactions to the Supreme Court decision last week - "Several newspaper editorials recently examined the unanimous Supreme Court decision last week that patients cannot file suit against HMOs in state court when they experience injuries as a result of administrative decisions related to treatment. In the case, which involved a 1997 Texas law, two state residents separately filed suit in state court against their HMOs, Aetna and Cigna, over allegations that the companies made decisions related to treatment that resulted in injuries. However, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 preempts state laws that allow patients to file such lawsuits..."