Researchers assessed the adoption of telehealth by internal medicine physicians, specifically whether telehealth technologies were available to their practices and how frequently they used these technologies with their patients.
Based on initial gains in health care access from the passage of the 2010 Patient Protection and ACA, the ACP offers recommendations on how to improve the law and achieve universal health care coverage.
As a result of the lack of systematic screening in routine health care in the US, Chagas disease is significantly underdiagnosed, and 7.4% of relatives of existing patients also have Chagas disease.
Patients with TB and HBV co-infection should be given antiviral treatment for HBV when anti-TB therapy is initiated.
The AGA present an updated summary of best practice advice for surveillance of hepatocellular cancer and DAA therapy timing.
The risk of intussusception related to rotavirus vaccination was undetectable as a result of low vaccine coverage and limited statistical power.
Viral suppression has become increasingly prevalent in people with HIV infection in recent years, and the rates of new infections and transmissions have been decreasing.
Staphylococcus aureus infections continue to be a cause of significant mortality and morbidity in spite of lower rates of methicillin-resistant S aureus.
Significant levels of cytomegalovirus DNA are common in older African children with perinatally acquired HIV infection.
The new interferon-gamma release assay QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus had good sensitivity in children with pulmonary tuberculosis.
