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AMA Calls for Electronic Health Record Training
Association says medical students, residents should undergo training with evaluative feedback
Practice Management Can Improve Efficiency
Suggestions include doing a financial analysis, using scribes, renegotiating insurance contracts
Health Care Technology Impacts Younger Patient Satisfaction
Younger health care consumers are dissatisfied with technology capability of health care organizations
Enzalutamide Improves Outcomes for Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Treatment led to 71 percent lower risk of metastasis or death compared to placebo
New Guidelines Increase Melanoma Staging Reproducibility
Greater reproducibility and higher concordance for melanoma staging with implementation of AJCC 8
Radiomic Model Approach for Characterizing Nodules Promising
Eight quantitative radiologic features result in optimism-corrected area under curve of 0.939
Higher Rates of Cancers Observed Among Flight Attendants
Especially breast cancer, melanoma, and non-melanoma skin cancer among female flight attendants
Sodium Thiosulfate Post-Cisplatin May Lessen Hearing Loss
Children with hepatoblastoma on cisplatin less likely to have hearing loss with sodium thiosulfate added
Higher Cancer Rates Confirmed in Women With Dense Breasts
Higher rate of recall, lower sensitivity, larger tumor diameter, and more lymph node-positive disease
Authors Explore Overdiagnosis in Cancer Screening
Standardized definition, guidance on estimation may facilitate understanding of overdiagnosis
