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Medical practices can take steps to avoid problems related to use of social media by staff members

Practices Should Set Rules for Staff Social Media Use

Staff social media accounts should be strictly personal, with no info about patients or employees
Female soccer players exhibit more widespread evidence of microstructural white matter alteration than males

Heading a Soccer Ball Found to Be Riskier for Female Players

Female players show more widespread brain tissue changes than male players after repetitive heading
Having a Master of Business Administration degree can help doctors with important

Business Degree Increasingly Useful for Doctors

With increased focus on value, business analysis skills sought after
Older individuals with multiple sclerosis report less severe depressive symptoms and better physical quality of life

Lower Levels of Depression, Higher QOL for Older MS Patients

Individuals aged 55 to 65 years have less severe depressive symptoms, better physical QOL
Symptoms of burnout and career choice regret are prevalent among U.S. resident physicians

Burnout, Career Choice Regret Prevalent in U.S. Residents

Considerable variation according to specialty for both burnout symptoms, career choice regret
Variation in childhood socioeconomic position partially accounts for cognitive performance in older age

Childhood Poverty Can Affect Cognitive Skills in Old Age

Adverse childhood socioeconomic position linked to lower level of cognitive performance in older age
Use of a decision aid can improve parent knowledge for children with minor head injury at intermediate risk of clinically important traumatic brain injury

Head CT Decision Aid Ups Parent Knowledge in Child Head Trauma

Parents in decision aid group had less decisional conflict, were more involved in decision-making
Physician-group accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program generated significantly more savings for Medicare that grew from 2012 to 2015 compared with hospital-integrated ACOs

Physician-Group ACOs Generate Medicare Savings

Savings grow with longer participation and are significantly higher than hospital-integrated ACOs
Recommendations have been developed to support pediatric providers in managing patients with a diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

AAP Report Addresses Managing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Recommendations developed to support pediatric providers in managing patients with FASD diagnosis
From 2013 to 2016

In 2016, Proportion of Uninsured Americans Down to 10 Percent

Larger reductions in uninsured rate in Medicaid expansion states, from 15.3 to 7.6 percent