Developing and implementing evidence-based mitigation strategies specifically targeting preventable patient harm could lead to major service quality improvements in medical care which could also be more cost effective.
Researchers found data that showed hepatitis C virus infection is linked to an increased risk for diabetes mellitus in both chronic hepatitis patients and patients with cirrhosis from hepatitis C.
Although not definitive, results suggest that biases linking surgery with men and family medicine with women may be widespread across the United States among surgeons.
Lyme disease, a vector-borne illness caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted to humans by deer ticks. It is currently nearing endemic levels of infection in North America; the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a 130.6% increase in confirmed cases between 1997 and 2017 (12,801-29,513 cases, respectively)1. Other…
Although adding ibalizumab to an optimized background regimen of ART is not cost-effective, ibalizumab substantially increased survival for individuals with multidrug-resistant HIV.
Monthly injections of long-acting formulations of cabotegravir and rilpivirine were noninferior to daily oral combination antiretroviral therapy for maintaining HIV-1 suppression and also offered improved treatment satisfaction.
Patients with HIV and HBV coinfection who received tenofovir-based ART rarely demonstrated a detectable HBV DNA at 8-year follow-up.
HIV testing rates are suboptimal in the United States, and there is significant regional variation in testing rates, with rural areas displaying lower rates of testing and diagnosis than urban areas.
After the first human case of leptospirosis was reported in the United States Virgin Islands following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the US Virgin Islands arbovirus surveillance system was adapted to include leptospirosis surveillance.
An association has been identified between newly diagnosed active tuberculosis, diabetes, and body mass index.
