Washington State Declares Health Emergency as Measles Spreads
Individuals may have been exposed to measles at more than three dozen locations
Report IDs Areas Lacking Good Practice in Health Tech Assessment
Three areas include defining organizational aspects, use of deliberative process, examining impact
Gun Injury Hospitalization Cost Over $911 Million 2010 to 2015
Average cost of hospitalization was $32,700 per patient; about 10 percent due to readmissions
Measles Outbreak Prompts Public Emergency in Washington State
23 measles cases confirmed and two more suspected cases under investigation
Three-Week Immobilization Feasible for Some Ankle Fractures
Three-week cast, simple orthosis noninferior to six-week cast for stable, isolated Weber B-type fibula fracture
Marketing of Opioids Linked to Increased OD Mortality
Mortality from opioid overdoses up with increase in marketing value/capita, payments to doctors
Benzodiazepine, Opioid Co-Usage Up in the United States
Increases also noted in co-use of nonselective and selective benzodiazepine receptor modulators
Canadian Syncope Risk Score IDs ED Monitoring Time Postsyncope
Half of arrhythmias identified within 2 hours in low-risk patients, within 6 hours in medium-, high-risk patients
Asthma Undiagnosed in One in Five Urban Adolescents
Odds of being undiagnosed higher for girls, Asian-Americans versus white non-Hispanics
Antibiotics Often Inappropriately Prescribed for Bronchiolitis in ED
In almost 70 percent of bronchiolitis cases, antibiotics prescribed with no concomitant infection
