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Patients searching for prices on imaging services and sleep studies choose health care facilities with lower prices

Searching for Price Info Affects Choice of Health Care Facility

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Patients who viewed price estimates chose health care facilities with lower relative price estimates
It may be safe to switch from broad- to narrow-spectrum antibiotic coverage once hospitalized patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia reach clinical stability

Narrow-Spectrum Abx Feasible in Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia

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Findings among clinically stable inpatients with healthcare-associated pneumonia
Clinicians are cautiously supportive of an electronic portal to enhance communication in the intensive care unit

ICU Clinicians Cautiously Support Electronic Portals

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Focus groups assess perspectives of ICU clinicians on current state of communication
Nearly one-third of cancer deaths among Americans aged 35 or older are caused by smoking

Smoking Still Responsible for Many U.S. Cancer Deaths

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Linked to close to one-third of fatal cancers in patients 35 and older
Participation in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) does not improve reported health status during the year following acute myocardial infarction; however

Cardiac Rehabilitation Does Not Up Health Status After AMI

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However, participation did confer a significant survival benefit
From 1999 to 2014 the numbers of deaths

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Deaths Down 1999 to 2014

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Additional study needed to demonstrate the efficacy of residential CO alarms
For patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

Angina Pectoris Linked to Worse HRQoL in Heart Failure

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Depressive symptoms, health-related quality of life were worse for patients with angina pectoris
For adults with asthma and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

CPAP Improves Asthma Control, QoL for Adults With Asthma, OSA

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Decrease in percentage of patients with uncontrolled asthma, asthma attacks at six months
About one of every six patients hospitalized for a first episode of syncope has a pulmonary embolism

Pulmonary Embolism May Be Cause of Syncope in Some Elderly

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Identified in nearly one of every six patients
Financial toxicity is a clinically relevant outcome for patients receiving treatment for advanced cancer

Financial Toxicity Is a Relevant Cancer Outcome Measure

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Health-related quality of life correlated with financial toxicity in cancer patients