Hematology and Oncology
Home Hematology and Oncology
Intensive Management Program Benefits High-Risk Patients
Access to intensive management program results in more outpatient care with no increase in total costs
Conservative Management Up for Low-Risk Prostate CA in Veterans
More conservative management and active surveillance utilized at VA hospitals from 2005 to 2015
Prolonged Leisure-Time Sitting Tied to Increased Mortality Risk
Increase in all-cause, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, suicide, COPD mortality
Initial Outcomes No Worse for Surgical ICU Patients With CA
ICU and hospital mortality were lower for patients with cancer versus those without cancer
Decision Tree Model Can ID Behaviors Linked to Sunburn Risk
Decision tree approach superior to composite score approach for classifying cases with sunburn
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
