Physician Depressive Symptoms Tied to Higher Risk for Medical Errors
Bidirectional association seen between depressive symptoms and medical errors
Lower Breast Key Focus Area for Assessing Breast Aesthetics
Nipple-areola complex, lower breast are key focus areas for assessing breast aesthetics, symmetry
Adults Not Living in Metro Areas Have Reduced Access to Care
In unadjusted analyses, adults not living in MSA more likely to have financial burden linked to care
Services Affected by Rural Hospitals Joining Health Systems
Reductions seen in imaging, on-site obstetric services, on-site primary care
Implant Survival Poor for Converted ‘Partial’ Knee Replacements
Survival significantly inferior for TKAs converted from UKAs compared with primary TKAs
RSNA: Biennial Mammo Returns More Advanced-Stage Cancers
Annual mammography screening, used by most patients, yields smaller and less advanced cancers
November 2019 Briefing – Surgery
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Surgery for November 2019. This roundup includes the latest...
Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns Examined for Adult, Peds HAIs
Antimicrobial nonsusceptibility less prevalent in pediatric than adult health care-associated infections
Outcomes Poorer With New U.S. Donor Heart Allocation System
Early observations show lower waitlist mortality but higher posttransplant mortality or retransplantation
Rates of Postoperative Mortality High for Frail, Very Frail Patients
Rates of postoperative mortality high across all levels of the Operative Stress Score for frail patients
