Guidance Offered for Negotiating Higher Rates From Payers
Compiling the information needed to approach insurance companies is time consuming
Triple-Handed Approach Eases Palpation of Ticklish Patients
Approach successful for ticklish adults undergoing palpation of lymph-node basins
Five Strategies Employed to Help Promote Behavior Change
Clinicians whose patients have activation increases report using five key strategies
Analgesics Plus Exercise Therapy Feasible for Knee OA
Seventy-eight percent of patients could participate in exercise protocol after analgesic use
Elderly With Advanced CRC Often Get Costly, Unnecessary Tx
Medications come with many side effects, may add only one month to survival, researchers say
Evidence Links Agent Orange to Bladder Cancer, Hypothyroidism
Also, veterans with Parkinson's-like symptoms can file claim for the condition
Diabetes Patients More Susceptible to Staph Bacteremia
Risk up seven-fold among patients with type 1 diabetes, almost three-fold for those with type 2
Predictive Model Developed for In-Hospital Mortality in TAVR
Covariates include age, glomerular filtration rate, hemodialysis, severe chronic lung disease
Warfarin’s Intracranial Bleed Risk Higher Than Previously Reported
Several factors place patients at increased risk of traumatic intracranial bleeding
Zika Now Tied to Meningoencephalitis
Case described in elderly cruise ship patient
