Researchers report that in communities where Medicaid is a more common source of insurance, providers of buprenorphine, an effective treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), are much less likely to discriminate between Medicaid ...
Jan 4, 2022
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Australia's healthcare system is one of the best in the western world when it comes to elderly patient outcomes following hip fracture or heart disease, a new study reveals.
Dec 1, 2021
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Findings from a new study conducted jointly at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, and published in Health Services Research, highlight the statistical drawbacks of one form of analysis commonly ...
Nov 17, 2021
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Lung cancer screening is recommended only for those who are at high risk for the disease—adults ages 50–80 who smoke at least 20 packs a year—but even among members of that high-risk group, screening rates remain ...
Nov 16, 2021
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Health economists wondered if states that expanded Medicaid coverage to more low-income Americans in 2014 under a new provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would lead to increased wait times in emergency departments.
Nov 8, 2021
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Research led by scientists at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has found that patients with continual care from the ...
Sep 9, 2021
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A new study published in Health Services Research found that many U.S. patients are burdened by administrative tasks related to their medical care. Such administrative tasks include appointment scheduling, obtaining information ...
Sep 9, 2021
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Are older adults with dementia "rehabbed to death?" This is the contention of a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine, describing the downward cycle of rehospitalization leading to death that many of ...
Sep 2, 2021
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Despite high demand, access to quality and affordable mental health care remains a challenge for many Americans. Less than half of those with mental health illness receive care and only about 10 percent of those with substance ...
Aug 3, 2021
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Voluntary curbs on movement and travel before governments first imposed national lockdowns helped cut COVID death rates almost as effectively as the lockdown measures themselves, according to a new study.
Jul 8, 2021
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