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Safety-net hospitals would be hurt by hospital-wide 30-day readmission penalties
November 19, 2017
Considering all readmissions within 30 days of discharge in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program would modestly increase the number of hospitals eligible for penalties and would have a bigger impact on safety-net hospitals, based on a study of two years of Medicare claims data from 3,443 ...
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Heart failure readmission penalties linked with rise in deaths
November 18, 2017
Heart failure readmissions penalties linked with rise in deaths ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Evidence continues to mount that Medicare’s penalization of hospitals with excess heart failure readmissions has cut readmissions but at the apparent price of more deaths.During the penalty phase of...
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Price transparency of laboratory testing does not change provider ordering habits
November 18, 2017
Clinical question: Does price transparency of laboratory tests at the point of order entry affect provider ordering behavior?
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Two changes are made to resuscitation practice in delivery room
November 17, 2017
One is in regard to heart rate assessment, the other to meconium.
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Antibiotics after incision and drainage for simple abscesses improves outcomes
November 17, 2017
Clinical question: Does antibiotic administration after incision and drainage of simple abscesses improve cure rates?
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Prescribers mostly ignore clopidogrel pharmacogenomic profiling
November 16, 2017
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Physicians treating ACS patients with an antiplatelet all but ignore their genetically assessed ability to metabolize clopidogrel.
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Summary of guidelines for DMARDs for elective surgery
November 16, 2017
What is the best management for disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for patients with RA, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) undergoing elective total knee arthroplasty (TKA) or total hip arthroplasty (THA)?
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Keep PCI patients on aspirin for noncardiac surgery
November 15, 2017
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Perioperative aspirin is more likely to help than harm PCI patients undergoing noncardiac surgery.
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Elderly patients’ view and the discussion of discontinuing cancer screening
November 15, 2017
Clinical question: How do elderly patients feel about discontinuing cancer screening, and how should their doctors communicate this topic to them?
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Patient handoffs and research methods
November 15, 2017
One of the benefits of asking open-ended questions is the ability to glean a large amount of information.
