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
Opioids Tied to Adverse Outcomes in Hemodialysis Patients
Increased risks of altered mental status, falls, and fractures; risk present even at low doses of opioids
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
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
Many Providers Unaware of Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplants
Nurse managers, white providers more likely to be unaware of national racial disparity in waitlisting
Recent Years Saw Increase in Burden of Prior Authorization
Ninety-two percent of physicians report PA-associated delays in patient access to care
New Staging System Predicts CKD Progression in Children
First tool to aid timing of progression of chronic kidney disease to end-stage renal disease
Considerable Differences in Burden of Disease at State Level
Increasing burden of various diseases depending on state; overall death rates declined
