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The economic burden of uncontrolled asthma is considerable and is projected to continue increasing

U.S. Health, Economic Burden of Uncontrolled Asthma Projected

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U.S. teens, adults expected to lose about 15.46 million QALYs over 20 years due to uncontrolled asthma
Vascular events

Serious Misdiagnosis-Related Harms Mostly Due to ‘Big Three’

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Vascular events, infections, cancers account for 74.1 percent of high-severity misdiagnosis-related harms
Survey results show that health care professionals have implicit and explicit gender bias

Health Care Professionals Exhibit Gender Bias

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Biases associate men with careers and surgery and women with family and family medicine
Patients hospitalized with pneumonia often receive excess antibiotic therapy

Hospitalized Pneumonia Patients Often Get Excess Antibiotics

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Vast majority of excess treatment occurs with antibiotics prescribed at discharge
Early prophylactic placement of a vena cava filter compared with no placement of a filter after major trauma does not result in a reduced incidence of symptomatic pulmonary embolism or death at 90 days

PE, Death Not Reduced With Early Vena Cava Filter Placement

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Findings seen in severely injured patients with a contraindication to prophylactic anticoagulation
A plan to let Medicare patients receive rebates that drug companies currently pay to insurers and middlemen has been withdrawn by the Trump administration.

Medicare Drug Rebate Plan Withdrawn by Trump Administration

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Rebates would have been paid directly to seniors in Medicare Part D program when they filled their Rx
Exposure of U.S. physicians to work-hour reforms during residency training is not associated with post-training differences in patient mortality

Capping Work Hours in Residency Does Not Impact Outcomes Later

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No differences seen in post-training patient mortality, readmissions, or costs of care
Continuous positive airway pressure treatment reduces depression symptoms in patients with coexisting obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease

CPAP Alleviates Depression Symptoms in Sleep Apnea Patients

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In large trial and literature review, benefit seen for depression but not anxiety symptoms
Use of a threshold of airflow obstruction of forced expiratory volume in one second:forced vital capacity of 0.70 discriminates chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-related hospitalization and mortality

Simple Fixed Threshold IDs Those at Risk for COPD-Related Events

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FEV1:FVC of 0.70 not significantly different from optimal threshold, better than LLN threshold
In-hospital maternal mortality decreased from 1998 to 2015 in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and non-SLE pregnancies

In-Hospital Maternal Mortality Down in Pregnancies With Lupus

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Mortality decrease greater in systemic lupus erythematosus pregnancies than in non-SLE pregnancies