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Medicare Requiring Hospitals to Post Prices Online
Medicare would base part of a hospital's payments on how easy it is for patients to access medical records
American College of Physicians, April 19-21
The American College of Physicians: Internal Medicine Meeting The annual meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP) was held from April 19...
Patients Prefer Doctors Who Engage in Face-to-Face Visits
Patients perceive F2F physicians as more compassionate and better communicators
Medical Cannabis Not Recommended for Sleep Apnea
American Academy of Sleep Medicine says evidence insufficient to recommend cannabis for apnea
Triple Therapy Tied to Reduced Rate of COPD Exacerbations
Benefits seen for triple therapy with fluticasone furoate, umeclidinium, and vilanterol
Nonoptimized Drug Therapy Costs More Than $500 Billion Annually
After initial Rx use, average cost of individual having treatment failure, new medical problem over $2,000
Increased Pollution Exposure Ups Health Care Visits for Acute URI
Health care use for URI higher within one week of elevated fine particulate matter, especially for infants
Similar Outcomes for Transplant With Overdose-Death Donors
Outcomes similar for ODD recipients, recipients of organs from trauma-death, medical-death donors
Recommendations Developed on Gender Equity in Medicine
ACP supports equitable physician compensation based on comparable work at each stage of career
Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Beneficial in Metastatic NSCLC
And, nivolumab plus ipilimumab linked to better survival in NSCLC with high tumor mutational burden
