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Investing more in inpatient care relative to longer-term nursing facilities may help reduce mortality rates

Higher Inpatient Spending Tied to Better Outcomes

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While downstream spending at skilled nursing facilities found to be strong predictor of mortality
Idarucizumab can reverse the anticoagulant effect of dabigatran in emergency situations

Idarucizumab Shows Reliable Reversal of Dabigatran

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Effective for dabigatran reversal among patients with uncontrolled bleeding, undergoing urgent surgery
Medicaid enrollees are largely satisfied with their health care

Medicaid Enrollees Are Satisfied With Their Health Care

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Enrollees rate their overall health care at 7.9, on average, on a scale of 1 to 10
Utilization of health services was largely unchanged from 1996-1997 to 2011-2012

Health Service Use Unchanged From 1996-1997 to 2011-2012

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Expenditures for various categories of medical services increased in almost every category assessed
The number of American adults without health insurance has increased by about two million so far this year

American Adults Without Health Insurance Rises by Two Million

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Losses in coverage concentrated among younger adults, people buying own health insurance policies
An estimated two of three people in the United States have not completed an advanced directive

No Advance Directives for Almost Two-Thirds of U.S. Population

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Among 795,909 people in 150 studies, 36.7 percent had completed an advance directive
In a technologically advanced society

AMA: Doctors Should Make Sure Their Online Info Is Accurate

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Speakers in educational session urge caution in online behavior
The annual incidence of Clostridium difficile infection and multiply recurrent Clostridium difficile increased from 2001 to 2012

From 2001 to 2012, Incidence of CDI, Multiply Recurrent CDI Up

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Multiply recurrent CDI more likely in older patients, females, those who used antibiotics, PPIs
Market competition levels are associated with changes in the price of generic drugs

Market Competition Linked to Change in Generic Drug Prices

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Price change of −31.7 percent for quadropoly and 47.4 percent for monopoly
A severe head injury

Traumatic Brain Injury May Up Later Risk of Dementia

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Threat even higher when injury occurs in middle age, investigators say