Hospital mergers and acquisitions may precipitate a modest decline in patient care quality; however, no differential changes in readmission or mortality rates were observed in acquired institutions compared with control hospitals,
Researchers were able to induce doctors’ beliefs about the thermedol treatment and showed that those beliefs were transmitted to patients through subtle shifts in facial expressions and possible changes in attentiveness between treatments.
Medical school application costs may prevent students from lower-income backgrounds from entering the profession of medicine.
Recent research indicates that disparities related to physician race or ethnicity, sex, or disability status may play a role in physician burnout.
Barriers to primary care coverage and access still exist for a significant number of people despite coverage expansions following enactment of the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published in Health Equity.
HCV-viremic kidneys are increasingly being used for transplants and seem to have good one-year outcomes.
The growth of drug spending in the United States associated with government-protected market exclusivity is likely to continue.
Electronic consultation service delivers specialist advice that is actionable by primary care clinicians and communicated in a timely fashion to patients.
Treatment with DAAs before liver transplantation is associated with improved outcome and appears to be safe in patients with decompensated hepatitis C-related cirrhosis.
The outcomes of kidney transplants in patients with viral suppression are as good as those for kidney transplants in patients not infected with HCV or HBV.
