Tag: Health Care Systems/Services

Endometrial cancer clinical trial aims to pave the way for practice-changing therapy

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The University of Colorado Cancer Center is leading the way in the development of ...

More support needed for young carers of parents with mental illness

New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) says there is a "clear need" for more support for young ...

Finger-prick blood test could safely reduce antibiotic use in patients with COPD

A simple finger-prick blood test could help prevent unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics for people with the lung condition chronic obstructive ...

Ped EM docs at risk for developing compassion fatigue, burnout, low compassion satisfaction

Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM DES PLAINES, IL -- Pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) ...

Antibiotic stewardship intervention improves prescribing for acute respiratory infection

Credit: Kirsty Challen, B.sc., Mbchb, Mres, Ph.d., Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom DES PLAINES, IL -- Antibiotic stewardship interventions for ...

How primary care physicians can make Astana work

The essential role of Primary care professionals in achieving Health for all -- how to make 'Astana' work The Astana ...

Many still uninsured after Affordable Care Act Implementation

Following uninsured patients through Medicaid expansion: Ambulatory care use and diagnosed conditions In community health centers in Medicaid expansion states, ...

July/August 2019 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet

Diabetes Patients Experiencing Empathy From Primary Care Practitioners Have Lower Risk of Mortality A United Kingdom study designed to examine ...

Study finds ACOs need a balance of PCPs and specialists to best reduce health care costs

UMass Amherst researchers examined Medicare data from accountable care organizationsCredit: UMass Amherst Accountable care organizations (ACOs), the health care delivery ...

Evaluating risk of death, complications in patients with heart failure after ambulatory, noncardiac

What The Study Did: Veterans Affairs data for 355,121 patients undergoing ambulatory, elective, noncardiac surgery were used to compare the ...

A concussion can cost your job — especially if you are young and well educated

July 9, 2019

Credit: Joachim Rode A hard tackle on the football-field, a crash on your bike or a fall from a ladder ...

Pneumonia patients get too many antibiotics — especially as they leave the hospital

Too-long prescriptions found in 2/3 of pneumonia patients at 43 Michigan hospitals, most written as part of the discharge process, ...

Combining antibiotics, researchers deliver one-two punch against ubiquitous bacterium

CWRU/Cleveland VA findings in mouse models could make inroads against superbugs By combining two well-established antibiotics for the first time, ...

Knowing BRCA status associated with better breast cancer outcomes even without surgery

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Ashkenazi Jewish women have a 1-in-40 chance of carrying the BRCA mutation and these ...

Novel method identifies patients at risk for HIV who may benefit from PrEP strategies

NIH-funded studies demonstrate the value of automated prediction algorithms that could be used to prevent new HIV infections Researchers have ...

Two new algorithms can identify patients at risk of HIV

Models could help patients get preventive PrEP medications Boston, MA - Two new studies developed algorithms that can identify patients ...

Quitting alcohol may improve mental well-being, health-related quality of life

Quitting alcohol may improve health-related quality of life for women, especially their mental well-being, according to a study from Hong ...

Targeted therapy combination improves survival in patients with advanced bowel cancer

July 6, 2019

ESMO World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer 2019, Barcelona, Spain, July 3-6Credit: European Society for Medical Oncology Barcelona, Spain, 6 July ...

Data demonstrate efficacy of more flexible dose of regorafenib to relieve side-effects in mCRC patients