Medical economics
UC Davis Health creates road map to diversify health care workforce
How can health care systems increase diversity and inclusion in their workforce?
Jan 7, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Giving cancer patients free rides to appointments found to reduce no-shows and increase clinical trial enrollment
University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center is attempting to address one of the most common challenges cancer patients face: Lack of transportation to critically important appointments. Now in its fifth year, the ...
Jan 5, 2024
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Seeing the human in every patient, from biblical texts to 21st century relational medicine
Patients frequently describe the U.S. health care system as impersonal, corporate and fragmented. One study even called the care delivered to many vulnerable patients "inhumane." Seismic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic—particularly ...
Jan 5, 2024
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Health informatics
Team develops new population risk prediction model for likelihood of ICU admission and survival
A significant obstacle to improving care and outcomes for intensive care unit (ICU) patients is the unexpected nature of becoming seriously ill. Which groups of patients are likely to become severely ill, and will they survive ...
Jan 4, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Community cancer care linked with poorer outcomes for patients with a common head and neck cancer
Care for patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-related squamous cell cancers of the oropharynx (an area in back of the throat) is shifting toward community cancer centers, but patients treated in this setting may be less ...
Jan 3, 2024
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Health informatics
Many dead patients still listed as alive in electronic health records, researchers say
Nearly one in five deceased patients are marked alive in electronic health records (EHRs) and 80 percent received primary care outreach after their death, according to a research letter published online Dec. 4 in JAMA Internal ...
Jan 1, 2024
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
A Parkinson's diagnosis can come with some hope, experts say
Patients with Parkinson's disease call it "D-Day," the date they were told they had the incurable movement disorder.
Dec 31, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Post-trauma support can prevent repeat hospitalizations
When hospitals support trauma survivors' mental health during and after treatment, patients are less likely to return in crisis, researchers report.
Dec 31, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Thyrotoxicosis linked to risk for incident cognitive disorder
For older adults, exposure to a low thyrotropin (TSH) level from either endogenous or exogenous thyrotoxicosis is associated with an increased risk for incident cognitive disorder, according to a study recently published ...
Dec 30, 2023
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Surgery
ASA: Deep learning model can improve pain assessment
An automated pain recognition system is promising for detecting pain before, during, and after surgery, according to a study presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2023, the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, ...
Dec 29, 2023
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