Health
When doctors know each other: Patients benefit when specialists know referring physicians, research says
Are you likely to receive better care if the specialist treating you knows your primary care physician?
Jan 3, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Prioritizing patients with unexpected weight loss for cancer investigation
New research will help GPs to identify the signs, symptoms, and blood test results they should look for to swiftly diagnose cancer in people with unexpected weight loss. The findings have implications for existing health ...
Aug 13, 2020
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Immunology
Researchers validate pediatric 'allergic march' in largest national study of its kind
In the largest study of its kind, researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) used electronic health record (EHR) data from more than 200,000 pediatric patients to describe patterns of pediatric allergies ...
Jul 25, 2023
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Medical economics
IT in health care has produced modest changes, so far
It has never been hard to imagine how information technology (IT) might improve health care services. Fast messaging replacing faxes. Electronic health records that can be accessed more easily. Software that can inform doctors' ...
Jul 18, 2022
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Health
First-year doctors spend almost 90 percent of their time away from patients
First-year doctors, or interns, spend 87 percent of their work time away from patients, half of which is spent interacting with electronic health records, according to a new study from researchers at Penn Medicine and Johns ...
Apr 15, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Black patients overrepresented in hospitalized COVID-19 cohort
(HealthDay)—In a cohort of hospitalized adults with COVID-19, black patients have a similar probability of receiving invasive mechanical ventilation or dying compared with nonblack patients, but they are disproportionately ...
May 1, 2020
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Health
Ethnic differences in appointment keeping affect health of diabetes patients
Ethnic differences in appointment keeping may be an important factor in poor health outcomes among some minority patients with diabetes, according to a new study.
Oct 27, 2011
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Gastroenterology
Artificial intelligence could help reduce hospitalizations for GI condition
When patients with ulcers or other conditions that cause bleeding in the stomach or intestines go to the emergency room, they are often admitted to the hospital. But they may not need to be, according to Yale researchers. ...
Sep 27, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Antithrombotic therapy unassociated with intracranial hemorrhage after fall
According to the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), antithrombotic therapy was not linked to increased incidence of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage on CT in adult patients, although the therapy did show association ...
Mar 24, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study reports very low incidence of severe COVID-19 following vaccination and booster
A large study of COVID-19 disease following vaccination and booster, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), reports surprisingly low incidence, especially in individuals younger than 65 years ...
Oct 6, 2022
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