Neurology

Dexamethasone worse than placebo with respect to favorable outcome at six months

Findings revealed by comparison to matched hospitalized COVID-19 patients without neurological involvement

Factors linked to fewer completed telemedicine visits include older age, Asian race, non-English as preferred language, Medicaid insurance

Changes in doses of antiepileptic drugs occurred more often in pregnant women than in nonpregnant controls

Among middle-aged Hispanic adults, longer time to fall asleep tied to later global decline

However, outcomes are not always better than those of average citizens in 12 comparison countries

Annually, out-of-pocket costs paid by 86.5 to 95.2 percent of patients for evaluation/management visits

Variation in percentage of patients seen by a neurologist mostly observed among those with dementia, pain, stroke

Children more likely than adults to sustain head injury, be diagnosed with concussion, closed-head injury

And age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths increased from 20.7 to 21.6 per 100,000 from 2018 to 2019