Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation: News and Research on Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms

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Overweight & Obesity

COVID-19 pandemic linked to increases in childhood obesity

The COVID-19 pandemic not only disrupted children's education, recreation, and social lives, but it also increased the prevalence of obesity in the U.S. pediatric population by roughly 1 million youngsters, according to a ...

Ophthalmology

Gas-permeable lenses beneficial after congenital glaucoma surgery

For children undergoing primary congenital glaucoma (PCG) surgery, use of rigid gas-permeable contact lenses (RGPCLs) is associated with superior visual acuity compared with spectacles, according to a study published online ...

Health informatics

Q&A: Protecting patients' online lives

From pacemakers to patient portals, modern health care systems are increasingly reliant on connected technologies. However, innovation can make health care systems vulnerable to sophisticated cyberattacks, threatening not ...

Medical economics

What will AI automation of health care mean for patients?

Artificial intelligence is upon us, and just as other historical breakthrough technologies have proved, it is not a matter of how it will accommodate us but how we must accommodate it. Education, finance, law, transportation ...

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