Poor Health Care Linked to 5 Million Deaths Worldwide a Year
FRIDAY, Sept. 7, 2018 — Poor-quality health care results in about 5 million deaths a year in low- and middle-income
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Social Determinants Linked to Provision of Primary Care
FRIDAY, Sept. 7, 2018 — Social determinants are associated with provision of primary care services, according to a study recently
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Urgent Care Centers Ease ER Burden in U.S.
FRIDAY, Sept. 7, 2018 — For minor ills such as sore throats, privately insured Americans increasingly use urgent care centers
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Why do people talk politics online? Because they don’t care what you think
Wading into a political debate online can be a minefield. Search any comment section or thread on a social media
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Pushing big data to rapidly advance patient care
The breakneck pace of biomedical discovery is outstripping clinicians’ ability to incorporate this new knowledge into practice. Charles Friedman, Ph.D.
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Analysis: Commonly used drugs are rarely studied in primary care patients
Drugs most commonly prescribed to patients seen by primary care physicians are not often tested in the patients who go
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Stroke: Time not the only factor in emergency care
Neurologist Dr. Camilo R. Gomez pronounced in an editorial published in the Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases in 1993
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Palliative care may reduce suicide risk in veterans with lung cancer
Results from a large-scale patient population study, recently published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, reveal palliative care
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Few older homeless adults make advance care plans
(HealthDay)—The majority of older homeless-experienced adults have a potential surrogate for health care decisions, but few have discussed or documented
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Rare pediatric skin conditions often get expensive, inconsistent care
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago are the first to conduct a large-scale analysis of treatments and outcomes
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