Health
Texting bans tied to drop in car crash injuries
(HealthDay)—Most U.S. states now have bans on texting while driving, and those laws may be preventing some serious traffic accidents, a new study suggests.
Apr 3, 2015
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Medical economics
Electronic health records may be key to improving patient care, study finds
When a patient gets transferred from a hospital to a nearby specialist or rehabilitation facility, it is often difficult for personnel at the new facility to access the patient's electronic health records—which includes ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How do outcomes for in-hospital cardiac arrest differ in patients treated with dialysis?
A new study indicates that there are opportunities to improve the quality of care for patients on dialysis who experience cardiac arrest while in the hospital, but survival rates are similar for these patients compared with ...
Jan 7, 2020
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Health
Social risk factors and readmission penalties
New research shows that U.S. safety net hospitals could benefit substantially from a new model that accounts for social risk factors like poverty and living in a disadvantaged neighborhood in determining how the federal government ...
Mar 14, 2019
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Health
Experts question merits of extending competition to improve hospital care
More research is needed before conclusions can be drawn about the effect of recent reforms on hospital quality, let alone about the merits of the coalition government's proposals to extend competition, warn experts on British ...
Oct 11, 2011
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Medical economics
Addressing social needs may cut hospitalizations
Interventions to address adult Medicaid patients' social needs may cut hospitalizations, according to a study published online July 5 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Jul 7, 2022
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Health
Hospital readmission rates misleading, study finds
When hospital patients have to be readmitted soon after discharge, hospitals look bad.
Oct 10, 2012
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Medications
How proximity to substance use treatment programs affects opioid-related health outcomes
Despite federal and state efforts to reduce opioid availability and increase treatment access, opioid-related deaths are on the rise in New York and 29 other states. To examine whether geographic access to treatment options ...
Mar 29, 2019
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Life and death: Team finds hospital readmissions sometimes save lives
A group of Johns Hopkins physicians and researchers today published an article in the Journal of Hospital Medicine suggesting that data on mortality and hospital readmission used by the United States Centers for Medicare ...
Sep 1, 2016
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Inflammatory disorders
1999 to 2017 saw drop in IBD hospitalization rate for whites
From 1999 to 2017, the hospitalization rate for Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis decreased among non-Hispanic white Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥65 years, but not among non-Hispanic blacks, according to research published ...
Dec 13, 2019
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