Next-Generation Sequencing May Improve Pediatric Epilepsy Tx
In children with drug-resistant epilepsy, NGS can help establish diagnosis, improve treatment efficacy
Practice Management Can Improve Efficiency
Suggestions include doing a financial analysis, using scribes, renegotiating insurance contracts
Health Care Technology Impacts Younger Patient Satisfaction
Younger health care consumers are dissatisfied with technology capability of health care organizations
New Guidelines Increase Melanoma Staging Reproducibility
Greater reproducibility and higher concordance for melanoma staging with implementation of AJCC 8
Radiomic Model Approach for Characterizing Nodules Promising
Eight quantitative radiologic features result in optimism-corrected area under curve of 0.939
AMA Adopts Ethical Guidance on Medical Tourism
Guidelines include helping patients understand risks and benefits, responding compassionately
Higher Cancer Rates Confirmed in Women With Dense Breasts
Higher rate of recall, lower sensitivity, larger tumor diameter, and more lymph node-positive disease
Authors Explore Overdiagnosis in Cancer Screening
Standardized definition, guidance on estimation may facilitate understanding of overdiagnosis
AMA: Docs Declare Drug Shortages Public Health Emergency
AMA calls for greater manufacturer transparency in order to prepare for disasters, mitigate shortages
Post-Endoscopic Infection More Common Than Previously Thought
Rates of infection within seven days (per 1,000) vary from 1.1 for screening colonoscopy to 3 for OGD
