Health
Reports: Health problems tied to global warming on the rise
Health problems tied to climate change are all getting worse, according to two reports published Wednesday.
Oct 21, 2021
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News tagged with emergency medicine
Pediatrics
Race and ethnicity of children enrolled in clinical trials not representative of the United States as a whole: study
When conducting pediatric clinical trials, the scientific process is best served when participants come from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, so that conclusions are more likely to be generalizable to a broad population. ...
Oct 8, 2021
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Health
Surfing doctor finds simple life-saving shark bite treatment
How do you help someone with their leg bitten off by a shark? Groundbreaking research by an Australian medic-surfer has uncovered a simple way to stop bleeding and save lives.
Sep 24, 2021
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Health informatics
AI-enhanced system enables doctors to spend less time searching for clinical information and more time treating patients
Electronic health records have been widely adopted with the hope they would save time and improve the quality of patient care. But due to fragmented interfaces and tedious data entry procedures, physicians often spend more ...
Sep 23, 2021
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Medical economics
Practice interruptions were more likely for physicians in 2020 than in 2019, says study
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the practice of medicine across the country. Most physicians saw visit volume plummet in March of 2020, only returning to pre-pandemic levels six months later. Anecdotal evidence suggests that ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Medical economics
Ethical challenge of healthcare for undocumented immigrants yields clinician moral distress
In one of the first studies to explore clinician moral distress related to the ethically challenging provision of healthcare to undocumented immigrants, researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Germany urges vaccine shots; warns of fall COVID-19 surge
Germany's top health official is urging more citizens to get vaccinated, warning Saturday that if the vaccination numbers don't go up the country's hospitals may get overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients toward the end of the ...
Sep 4, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
At my hospital, over 95% of COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated
As an emergency medicine and critical care doctor at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, I've lost count of the number of COVID-19 surges since the U.S. pandemic began in Seattle in February 2020. ...
Sep 3, 2021
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Medical economics
Hospitals often outsource important services to companies that prioritize profit over patients
Hospitals have long embraced the practice of outsourcing some services to specialized companies. Much of this outsourcing is for nonclinical tasks such as laundry, information technology and cybersecurity, and outsourcing ...
Aug 23, 2021
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Health
Workplace mistreatment reported frequently by emergency medicine residents
(HealthDay)—Emergency medicine (EM) residents often report workplace mistreatment, with patients and/or patients' families a frequent source of mistreatment, according to a study published online Aug. 19 in JAMA Network ...
Aug 20, 2021
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